I need help hacking my own DeLL Laptop computer.!?

Question

A while back my dad gave me a laptop when I brought it home my sister was always on it without pemission! So I made a password! I regret it so much now bc now I forgot my password and can't get on my laptop. I only have a sidekick in which I am typing on right now but my sidekick doesn't have all the wide web I need so plz ppl I need your help!

Answer 1

1. Place your Windows XP CD in your cd-rom and start your computer (it’s assumed here that your XP CD is bootable – as it should be - and that you have your bios set to boot from CD)



2. Keep your eye on the screen messages for booting to your cd Typically, it will be “Press any key to boot from cd”



3. Once you get in, the first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting your system and loading files.



4. When you get to the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows now



5. The Licensing Agreement comes next - Press F8 to accept it.



6. The next screen is the Setup screen which gives you the option to do a Repair.



It should read something like “If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, Setup can try to repair it”



Use the up and down arrow keys to select your XP installation (if you only have one, it should already be selected) and press R to begin the Repair process.



7. Let the Repair run. Setup will now check your disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes.



8. Shortly after the Copying Files stage, you will be required to reboot. (this will happen automatically – you will see a progress bar stating “Your computer will reboot in 15 seconds”



9. During the reboot, do not make the mistake of “pressing any key” to boot from the CD again! Setup will resume automatically with the standard billboard screens and you will notice Installing Windows is highlighted.



10. Keep your eye on the lower left hand side of the screen and when you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10. This is the security hole! A command console will now open up giving you the potential for wide access to your system.



11. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter. Voila! You have just gained graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel.



12. Now simply pick the account you need to change and remove or change your password as you prefer. If you want to log on without having to enter your new password, you can type control userpasswords2 at the prompt and choose to log on without being asked for password. After you’ve made your changes close the windows, exit the command box and continue on with the Repair (have your Product key handy).



13. Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password (or without a password if you chose not to use one or if you chose not to be asked for a password). Your programs and personalized settings should remain intact.

Answer 2

Ok. So what you are going to do. All of this is going to seem very hackerish, but what you want to do is also very hackerish, so, yeah.



You are going to be a little overwhelmed when you visit the site I posted below. However, read it carefully, do a little Googling if you have to, and you will be fine.



A few notes that will come in handy:

1. To get the computer to boot to the CD, you will have to put the CD into the computer, then restart it. It may start normally. If that is the case, watch very carefully as it starts. You will see BIOS flash on the screen for a second (might be anywhere from .1 seconds to 4 seconds). You will see a key next to it (F12 or F2 perhaps). Hit that a bunch of times as it starts up. Use the arrow keys to navigate the following menus and such. Fiddle for a little while, you'll figure it out.



2. Google programs to write a boot disk. Easy to find via google.



3. Don't get overwhelmed. Take it one step at a time, try to understand what it is asking, you'll be fine).



4. Once you have this thing working, and you are in the CD you booted to, hitting Enter uses the defaults for each step. That will be fine, because you haven't changed any of the defaults.

Answer 3

Some professionals agree now that wpa takes much less time to crack than conventional wep - nevertheless this SOLELY is dependent the cryptographic force of the wi-fi community (aka move word.) If he's medium paranoid, I recommend he use the highest quantity of characters to be had for the WPA2 Enterprise AES+tkip key, utilising non-ordinary characters, and difference the important thing each three days. If he's extra concerned, then have him mounted a Red-hat RADIUS server (there are loose choices, particularly freeRADIUS) after which have him layout a 4096-bit cryptographic force certificates - utilising a couple of paragraphs-period PGP grasp key, after which encrypt that certificates except wanted (like connecting to the wi-fi community.) Performance would cross to hell, however except there's a flaw within the layout - it could be the top of time had to brute-drive such an set of rules (regardless of how so much you'll combat the exponential curve related to rising cpu strategies.) Also propose him to reformat the difficult force, partition desk, and MBR after which continue to put in BackTrack beta three linux with the today's variation of firefox without a-script upload-directly to browse the web - that are supposed to do away with the script-kiddie apps that perhaps going for walks below root with out authorization like in his Windows setup. "Windows" and "defense" are oxymorons of 1 yet another.

Answer 4

While booting press F8 to get the choice to log into "safe mode". Once in you should be able to click on the administrator account.



If it lets you into that account you can then go into control panel and change the password of your account to whatever you want.



If the administrator account is password protected you will need access to another pc and the internet, but sharing how to do that would be downright unethical.

Answer 5

Try these:



http://www.password-reset.com/

http://www.loginrecovery.com/



The latter is free, but you have to set up an account. I know how it feels to lock yourself out of your own computer :D