Cracking Windows Password using ophcrack

If you have forgotten your windows password or you want to hack any accountant system or for any reason you want to hack windows than this is possible by stealing stored hashes in windows. Password created for windows or for any type of security gateway is never stored in its textual form it is always converted to its hash using hash function.

What is hash and how it works?
After stealing hash, convert this hash to password.

Where is your hash? 

1)In the folder C:\windows\system32\config. This folder is locked to all accounts (including an Administrator account) while running, except the special System account.

2)In a SAM file from C:\windows\repair if rdisk has ever run

3)In the registry, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESAM, which is locked to all accounts

Now these hashes cannot directly be used as because of windows file protection system so how can you hack them, here is the way

Boot to any linux OS than copy hash file directly from the above shown paths and convert these hashes to desired password for this conversion many software are present , one of which is rainbowcrack.

If you want to secretly steal password than it is up to you than how can you implement this technique from network.

But all this is not so simple so below is the more easy method by using graphical user interface.  

Here comes the Ophcrack.

Ophcrack

Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker which can crack almost every password. . It comes with a easy Graphical User Interface so you don’t have to mess with unix terminal for hacking. 

Ophcrack is a software that can be installed directly to victim windows or you can use a Live CD if you cannot boot to windows. Ophcrack use rainbow table for cracking hashes. 


It runs on every platform.
  It can crack LM and NTLM hashes.
Free and open source software (GPL).
Brute-force module for simple passwords.

Also if you uses direct installation it requires you to download rainbow tables separately but in LIVE CD it is built-in.


HOW TO USE OPHCRACK video tutorial

Hack Trial Software

If you have software that has the trial period and you want to use it forever without paying any registration fees, than there is no complex hacking required or you don’t have to use any software for unlocking. You don’t have to remove that timer with any type of complexity, you have to just stop the bios timer.

This can be done by very simple hack just remove the cell present in the motherboard. Open up your CPU and find the cell that is shown in below image and take it out, now the timer will not run and your software trial period will hangout forever.
But this method has two drawbacks one is your os clock will also not run and the other one is that some features of your operating system may malfunction such as some websites may not run or your pc may not boot depending on your motherboard, if you have older board than this may work for you.