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Tuesday 7 February 2012

Ophcrack Live CD – The Best Free Windows Password Recovery Tool

Ophcrack is famous for its free cost in the field of Window password recovery. It’s fast and easy enough for an average computer user with a basic knowledge of Windows. Have you ever forgotten your Windows account password? If you have you already know how painful the password recovery process can be. By using the Ophcrack Live CD, you don’t need to reset your Windows password. Your Windows password will be recovered automatically.

Download Link of Ophcrack Live CD
The download link of Ophcrack Live CD is http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/download.php. Click the download button corresponding to the version of Windows on the computer you’ll be recovering the password on. Choose the Vista option for Windows 7. Some anti-virus programs may alert that there is virus in the downloading ISO image file. Please stop your anti-virus and ignore the alert before downloading.
The size of the Ophcrack Live CD ISO image is not too large. The Windows 7 / Windows Vista version is 496MB and the Windows XP version is 415MB.

Steps to Recover Forgotten Windows Password
Step 1 – Use an ISO file burn program to burn Ophcrack Live CD ISO image file to a CD or DVD disc. You cannot burn the iso file to the cd or dvd disc like burning a common file. You should use the Burn ISO Image option the burn program provides to burn the iso file to cd or dvd disc, or you will fail to boot the computer from Ophcrack Live CD. ImgBurn is recommended for burning ISO image file.
Step 2 – Boot the computer which is locked from Ophcrack Live CD.
2.1 Insert Ophcrack Live CD to the locked computer.
2.2 Access to BIOS Setup Utility to Set the CD/DVD-ROM as the first boot device.
2.3 Press 10 to save BIOS setting and then restart computer.
Step 3 – Get the password has been recovered by Ophcrack. After boot from Ophcrack Live CD, you do not need to do anything. What you should just do is write down the password has been found. The user column will list the user Ophcrack find in system. The NT Pwd column will list the password has been found. If the NT Pwd field is empty for a special user, you can log on to the account without a password at all, assuming that the user account is enabled.
Step 4 – Eject Ophcrack Live CD and restart Windows. Press the restart button of your computer or click Menu -> Logout -> Reboot system to restart computer, you can now login with the recovered password.
Ophcrack is the best free Windows password recovery tool. If you forget your Windows login password, please try Ophcrack!

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