Is there anywhere I can get free software to break windows xp passwords?

Question

Can't remember password for my sons computer.

Answer 1

The Windows user password can either be cracked (recovered) or reset.

By default, Windows XP stores a user password as both a LM hash and an NTLM hash. LM hashes are very weak, and therefore, in most cases, a Windows XP user password can be cracked without much difficulty. The easiest way to crack a Windows XP user password is to use the following Windows user password recovery service:

http://www.loginrecovery.com/

You can also use Ophcrack LiveCD, although the free version does not support passwords with special characters:

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

As an alternative to cracking the password, you can reset the password. To reset the password, you can boot into Safe Mode and login to the Administrator account. You can then open the User Accounts control panel and reset the user's password. This solution should work if the Administrator account has no password or if you know the Administrator password. You can find more details on this solution in the "Method 2" section of the knowledge base article below:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305

If the Administrator account has a password and you do not know what it is, you can still reset the user's password using the following tool:

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Note that resetting the password will cause the user to lose access to any EFS-encrypted files it had access to. Similarly, some passwords cached in Windows will be lost. If you use EFS file encryption or need to preserve any cached passwords saved in Windows, I would recommend avoiding this approach.

Answer 2

That really shouldn't be a big issue.

Boot into safe mode. Use Administrator for the user. Once in click on user management and remove his password!
#1 boot into safe mode (press F8 before windows starts)

#2 log onto the account named "administrator" NOT your normal account

#3 go into control panel and remove password from user account settings.
You will then have an unlocked user.

Answer 3

If you can get into the computer once (like if you are trying to hack it) then you can install a keylogger program which will record what he types in at that screen every day and save these 'keystrokes' in a log. You can then access the log to determine his password.

If you can't get into the computer (like if you are both honestly locked out) then the only thing I can think of would be to manually reset the switch on your motherboard. This involves manually pulling out and resetting jumpers on your motherboard, with the help of a pair of tweezers or pliers. I'm not going to get into the complicated details - you can look it up on the HP website or Google. You could also try installing another version of Windows and using the 'Upgrade' instead of 'Clean Install' options.

Answer 4

Reset Any Windows Password - http://tinyurl.com/xfFnfEu1ux

Answer 5

Go to the control panel of the main account,
next go to user accounts then go to the account that has a password and go to remove password.After that you can basically do whatever you want with the account.