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HOW BLINDINGLY SIMPLE: HACK YOUR WINDOWS PASSWORD

Your Windows is a lot less secure than you think and using encryption to protect your files can be really important. First, you need to understand what the Safe Mode is. If you do not know what the Safe Mode is, this will be a good guide for you. In technical terms, this is called a Safe Boot and Safe Mode was not originally on the computer. In fact, almost nothing was actually on the computer back in the time when people used gold toothbrushes to clean motherboards. Initially, you had a boot file on a Floppy and when your computer messed up, you simply restarted and pushed the Floppy back in to the computer. Once we started having a bigger local space, Operating System manufacturers thought it would be easier to just have a Safe Mode on the computer.

The Safe Mode is a version of the software that was the last working configuration of the computer, which is why many of your programs will still be there when you boot up the computer. There are several modes in Safe Mode and, generally, you will want to use just the regular Safe Mode. However, for this exercise, we want to only have the command prompt and not boot up the actual Operating System. This is called;

Safe Mode with Command Prompt

On Windows, when you started up the computer, it is set up by default so that when you press F8 on your keyboard a DOS menu will show up on your computer to let you choose the type of Safe Mode you want to use. When you select Safe Mode with Command Prompt, you will only be booting the Command Prompt. So, what is the Command Prompt?

The Command Prompt is actually Windows’ version of a CLI, or command line interpreter, that lets you alter data within your system without using the Windows GUI, graphical user interface. It’s very important to note that the Command Prompt is not DOS, the menu before it was a DOS menu, but the Command Prompt is just an interpreter to tell your computer what it is that you want it to do.

We will be using too bits of data within this, one is called a command and the other is called an identifier. A command is just that; a word that tells your computer what you want to do. In this case, the command will be;

net

Net is a command that is literally referring to a network that you will want to access. You have Net file, Net Config, and a lot of other “net’s”. In this case, you will want to type

net user

User is an identifier that literally means a “User of this Computer.” So far, we have told the computer that we want to “Access the Network of Users on this Computer.” Next, you will want to access an actual account. This is where the user-name comes in to play, as this will identify which user you want to access and change. Our user will be called Bob;

net user Bob

Therefore, what we have told the computer is that we want to “Access the Network of Users on this Computer so that we can alter the Data of Bob.” Now that we have gone this far, the next part is the password of Bob. We will change this to “Y” like so;

net user Bob Y

This will mean that when we boot up the computer next time, Bob will have a new password, which we changed to Y.