How to Find your Lost Administrator Password Using Free Windows Password Recovery Tools

Password Recovery

A lot of people think that after having lost their Windows admin password, they absolutely have to reinstall their OS. Reinstall OS is the same with start the computer configuration from the beginning, for some people this is a nightmare. Before you decide to reinstall the OS, you can try some free windows Recovary Tools below

1. Ophcrack
Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.
The Ophcrack Windows password cracker is by far the best free Windows password recovery tool available. It's fast and easy enough for a first time password cracker with a basic knowledge of Windows.
Visit Their website : http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

2. Offine NT Password & Registry Editor
• This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista etc system.
• You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
• It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD or another system.
• Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
• There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing.
Visit Their website : http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

3. Cain & Abel v4.9.29
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol's standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some "non standard" utilities for Microsoft Windows users.
Visit Their website : http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

4. LCP
LCP is yet another free password recovery software tool for Windows.
LCP is a standard Windows program you download from LCPSoft's website and install inside of Windows, meaning you'll need access to a user account no the computer
Visit Their website : http://www.lcpsoft.com/english/download.htm

5. John The Ripper
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.
Visit Their website : http://www.openwall.com/john/

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