Forgot admin password

Honestly, if you're looking for a real solution, my suggestion is simple: grab a heavy metal pipe about twenty inches long and give that computer a good, solid whack from end to end. I guarantee all your passwords will instantly reset themselves to four zeros.😬 😬

There is actually one more avenue you could explore, which involves a software called Passware. Now, it isn't free, though I suppose there are always ways to circumvent paying for things if one is inclined to do so. It’s a bit of a technical headache to set up, but it is virtually guaranteed to strip away any password you're facing. Alternatively, there is a much more straightforward method using the command line after you've booted from a Windows XP installation CD, but the specific steps have slipped my mind—I'm sure there's an instructional guide somewhere online for it. With this Passware approach, the trick is to create a bootable floppy disk through the program and then boot the machine using that Windows XP media. Once the Windows XP boot process begins, you hit F6, which allows you to load the file from the floppy, similar to how you'd handle SATA drives. You proceed with the boot, select the appropriate partition, and simply reset the password to 12345. From there, you just log in using the "Administrator" account with the password 12345. Once you're in, you head straight to the Control Panel, navigate to the user settings, and wipe out the password that was giving you such grief under your own account. And that's really all there is to it.

When you get to that part where it asks for the password, just hit Ctrl + alt + del twice and then type in
administrator. That should be it......................

Does anyone know how to just view a password without actually changing it?
Because if I reset it, the admin is gonna come over and try typing in the old one—which won't work, obviously😂—and man, he’s really going to have a bad time when that happens....

Thomas Hernandez21 said:Just grease up the SAM and crack it—that’s the only way to get it done.

I mean, I get what you're trying to do—but which program are you actually planning to use to crack it?
Look, I’ve already tried to "borrow" some SAM before, but I’ve messed around with a few different programs and it’s always the same story—the process drags on for a day or two and then absolutely nothing happens.😠

There is supposedly a program out there that can "read" about 90% of Windows passwords—across various different software—but only if you can actually see those little dots or stars or whatever they use... it's reading them right now

But since your mom won't let you, I guess a parent's decision has to be respected😛
Look, now you know for a fact that such a thing exists, so maybe you can try to find it yourself if you're so smart enough