Ophcrack LiveCD: Ophcrack Windows password cracker is the best free Windows password recovery tool. Ophcrack is quite fast and easy to use even for a beginner.
Download Ophcrack LiveCD V3.6.0
Ophcrack v3.6.0, comes in LiveCD format and is simply the best way to recover your code Windows access. LiveCD naturally requires some preparation which we will describe below. Opchrack can discover passwords of Windows 8 (both local and from Microsoft accounts), Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. The success rate of the application reaches 99,9%, while on operating systems like Windows XP, finding the password is a matter of seconds. Any code 14-characters or less that uses any combination of numbers, lowercase and uppercase letters is crackable.
The Ophcrack LiveCD method does not require any installation.
How can I use Ophcrack LiveCD?
To get started, visit the Ophcrack download page and click Download Ophcrack LiveCD.
On the next page, select the operating system you are using (XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8). Do not get stuck in the ophcrack LiveCD option (without tables) just download the correct ISO for your operating system.
An ISO file contains everything you need to write to a DVD or USB stick. Ophcrack LiveCD ISO contains SliTaz (a Linux distribution), Ophcrack software, and other files needed to recover the passwords you want. Ophcrack LiveCD is fully automated, so it will be quite easy for you even if you have absolutely no experience with Linux.
After downloading Ophcrack ISO, you should choose to pass Ophcrack to a disc (DVD), or to a USB.
Create one bootable DVD ή USB and you are ready to get started. If you use the Universal-USB-Installer to transfer the LiveCD to USB, do not forget to select "Ophcrack" from the list of operating systems and tools contained in the application.
Once you have the tool ready for you, start the computer that you have forgotten your password with the USB or DVD that contains the LiveCD.
Ophcrack will detect Windows system users and start cracking their passwords. The process is automatic – usually you don't have to select or type anything. When it runs out of passwords found in your system, they will be displayed on your screen.
Remove the drive or USB, and restart your computer. Now you can log in to Windows with your password
Once you've been able to retrieve your Windows account, change your password to someone you remember and then create a password reset disk.
Note:
A few programs antiviruses give false alarms for one or two of the two files included in Ophcrack that identify them as Trojans or other malware. samdump.dll and pwservice.exe. Both of these files are part of an open source program called pwdump that is included with Ophcrack and is necessary for it to work.
The program pwdump ranks more among the "bad" programs since it can be used to recover passwords.
