Ophcrack LiveCD: Ophcrack Windows password cracker is the best free password recovery tool in Windows. 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 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. The Ophcrack LiveCD ISO contains SliTaz (a Linux distribution), the software Ophcrack, and other files needed to recover the passwords you desire. Ophcrack LiveCD is completely 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 in your hands, launch it computer that you have forgotten the password with the USB or DVD containing the LiveCD.
Ophcrack will locate them users of the Windows system and start cracking passwords. The process is automatic – you usually 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:
Some antivirus programs give false alarms for one or two of the two files included with Ophcrack that they identify as Trojan 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 pwdump program is ranked more in the "bad" programs as it can be used to retrieve passwords.
