have you gotten in yet rattler ? ?

Thanks - its the login password on a laptop.

Age - the details you sent require a floppy to copy the encrypted password to - it doesn't have a floppy - and neither do I!!! ;)

Thanks anyway
Tim

Its a secondhand laptop that I have legitimately aquired, but there are no details of the login or password - the only login that is defaulted is admin!!!

I can wipe the disk and reload everything, but want to avoid that if possible - has someone got a copy of Windows XP and MS Office I could borrow????

Thanks
Tim

I've got Office 2000 you can borrow - If I could afford to post it :lol:

Don't have XP though.

If it's a second hand laptop then I'd actually recommend wiping it and re-installing the operating system. You never know what nasty Trojans may have been left on it by the previous owner.

If you want an office suite that's free and I find it just as good as MS Office (if you just want a regular word processor and decent presentation software, although MS Excel is the best) then try installing Open Office. http://www.openoffice.org

Rattler,

Duuno anything about W2K but here is something that might help - the prog allows you to create a boot CD or DVD providing you have a disc (or sometimes files on your PC) with an operating system on it:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Good luck !

Thanks guys - time for a play.

It looks like my best bet will be to create a boot CD that reads the encrypted password and use some kind of ripper software to interogate this.

Some of the "admin password" recovery tools rely on the fact that you have a login that works - you can then retrieve the admin from some registry hacks. - but I don't have any logins, so they won't work.

Its worth a play for a while, then I'll jsut wipe it and start again I reckon.

Thanks
Tim

Does anyone know how to hack into the Bank of England computers:lol::devil:

You having a quiet day???? ;)