Ophcrack LiveCD: The Ophcrack Windows password cracker is the best free tool to recover Windows passwords. 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 Windows password. The LiveCD of course requires some preparation which we will describe below. Opchrack can detect Windows 8 (both local and Microsoft accounts), Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP passwords. The success rate of the application reaches 99,9%, while in operating systems such as Windows XP, finding the password is a matter of seconds. Any 14-character or lower-case code that uses any combination of numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters is crackable.
The Ophcrack LiveCD method does not require any installation.
How can I use Ophcrack LiveCD?
To get started, visit the page λήψηof Ophcrack and click the button Download Ophcrack LiveCD.
Στην επόμενη σελίδα, επιλέξτε το λειτουργικό που χρησιμοποιείτε (XP, Vista, 7 και Windows 8). Μην κολλήσετε στην επιλογή ophcrack LiveCD (without tables) απλά κατεβάστε το σωστό ISO για το λειτουργικό σας 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 passwords. The process is automatic - you usually do not have to select or enter anything. When you have finished, the passwords found on your system 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:
Some antivirus programs give false alarms for a or two of the two files included with 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.