Reset Forgotten Windows Password With Kali Linux

Reset Forgotten Windows Password With Kali Linux

It's pretty common for people to forget their Windows user login password, it's very easy to reset if you know how and there are many ways to reset or bypass your lost password. It works with all versions of Windows and I will show you an easy and free way to reset the login password using Kali Linux which is a free software.

If you are using a Microsoft Live account, this method will not reset the password, because the password is not stored in SAM hive file. It's store on Microsoft Server. I have made a video on how to reset that password.

The method I show in the video will be a step by step guide on resetting the local user login password on Windows 10. It works on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

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[colinbarrett]

Iv'e been working at IT for 30 years yet I still find I never fail to learn something from your tutorials. Keep it up bud you're a legend!

[Jaun-Vincent]

Thank you! This method worked after I had to press SHIFT and Shutdown to shutdown windows without it creating a hibernation file. Hope this helps someone else also. 👍🙂

[co]

Thanks For this. I attempted to use Etcher to create a boot USB, but kept getting an error. I used ISO2Disc (From OPHCrack) to burn the ISO to a Thumbdrive, and it worked out great. I'm running an HP Laptop with UEFI, so I had to pick the right option in ISO2Disc. The rest of the process worked just like you described. Thank you!

[EloyRamirez]

Thank You!...this video was a great help.


one thing I would add. I had a weird situation where I could not see the OS hard drive....so a few things I would like to add.


1. If UEFI is enable in the BIOS, disable and use Legacy/Classic boot options.


2. If once you are able to see the drive but cannot write changes to the drive, it is likely that the OS is in a hibernation state. To fix, do. Shut Down of the computer so that the Hibernation data is not written. I read somewhere else that holding down Shift while powering down also keeps Windows from writing hibernation data.


3. for some reason (I did not troubleshoot this part since it worked), I had to use "sudo" before the commands to get the "chntpw" commands to works. I am sure someone knows why this had to be used, but like I said, since it worked for me, I did not investigate it more.


hope these help anyone else.

[Fconig]

Thank you, this was a life saver, if you end up with the read only error hold shift when powering down windows to disable deep sleep

[Maveric]

Thanks for this! I've been wanting to do this in Kali but never had an opportunity to test until now.

[joelnicholas]

Dude, u this is the best vid for the problem, saw a ton before using this method and i feel urs was the best, keep making vids like this and help out thx a

[joesalgadSF]

I found this video after searching and trying with other video with no luck. I want to try this but how do I make a make a Kali boot USB? I have another Windows pc and I recently got a pi 4 which I’m going to learn Linux. I just subscribed to your channel for your Linux tutorials. Thanks
Edit: btw Yes my laptop it’s locked because I forgot my password

[SnerdeyCo]

THANK YOU for sharing and educating us. I was able to get it perfectly done following the excellent tutorial you created. Have a Great New Year :)

[andrewburrell]

If not already mentioned, in Windows, press Restart instead of Shutdown to offload the SAM hive. Then you should not need to run fdisk. Then the chntpw command was able to save the changes successfully. (I used the -v (verbose) option to see messages about chntpw being read-only, otherwise it appears changes are saved successfully.)

[christianziobro]

does this work for microsoft accounts or just local accounts?

[davethenerd]

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you so much!

[mumtazpk]

Thank you Sir!

You really made my life easy.

Love and respect from Quetta (Pakistan)

[JasonWjddphotography]

Worked great! I've been pissed the old winternals tools for xp didnt evolve fo rus admins to use - but this is beautiful!

[werewolf_]

Thank you sir! Much appreciated.
By the way, you sound a lot like Michael Caine !

[ianwooller]

Thanks very much, I had not used my laptop in ages, and of course lost the pass word, I had to run this twice, but was my fault, it worked perfect, Thanks again

[Villevallaton]

Thank you so much. You saved me from a lot of unnecessary work!

[johnalejo]

Thank you very much I left my like and confirmed that it still works in windows 10

[eastmanresearch]

Will this work on a machine tied to a domain? I would assume there would be some way of getting back in if the local admin password is blanked out. Pretty cool tool using kali linux to modify windows passwords. I have an old winxp system that is used for a specialized pick and place machine which needs to be reset.

[christymorrigan]

Britec09 getting fancy with Kali Linux! Great video and it is really cool seeing you use Kali!