Tomas' Labroratory

Reset Windows Passwords with chntpw

My go-to tool for resetting forgotten windows passwords used to be  Offline NT password recovery It still works fine, but I discovered that the underlying tool that does the resets is available on other distributions including Ubuntu Live CD (after apt-get) and it's fully baked into my favorite System Rescue CD That tool is chntpw Even though the manual page says it's for Windows NT/2000, so far it works on more modern windows too (local users): Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10