How To Crack Windows Server 2003 Administrator Password
I recently helped a client recover his forgotten Windows password by using a couple of different tools. We eventually were able to reset the Administrator password to a blank password so that he could log into Windows. It was a fairly long and complicated process, but it worked. Unfortunately, there is no “one” way to reset a Windows password and depending on what version of Windows you are running, you might have to try different methods.
Don't get worried. With Windows Server Password Recovery you can easily crack Windows Server 2003 both local Administrator password and domain Administrator password. Steps to Crack Windows Server 2003 Local Administrator Password: Step 1, Download Windows Server Password Recovery on any PC you can access to and install the download setup file. When the burning task is completed, insert the burned CD/DVD into the locked Windows server 2003 domain computer. Turn on Windows server 2003, press F8 to enter BIOS setup and set CDROM as the first boot device. Select the right option to reset lost domain administrator password, or create a new admin account for Windows Server 2003.
In the end, there is also no real guarantee that you’ll be able to crack the password. There are already so many articles written on how to recover or reset a password that I’m not going to reinvent the wheel, but instead will guide you to the best online resources that I have used to crack my Windows password. – My favorite ways to blank out or crack a Windows password is to use a Linux Live CD. These are special distributions of Linux that run directly from the CD (no installation required) and are specially designed for cracking Windows passwords. You can read the documentation to learn how to use it. Simply burn the ISO and boot using the CD and the program will get right to work. It may not work, however, on very complicated passwords because it actually tries to determine the password rather than reset it.
My buddy over at the How-To Geek site has a great tutorial on. Also, Ophcrack uses password tables to brute force crack the user passwords. You can download their free tables, but that won’t crack long passwords. For those cases, you can purchase larger password tables that range from $100 to $1000. – This is a very small program, only 3MB in size that you can burn to a CD and boot to. It’ll auto-detect the Windows installation and the account names (that is if everything was installed in the default Windows directories).
Using this program you can reset or blank out a Windows password, which means it doesn’t matter how long or complicated it is. The program was recently updated after four years and now supports cracking passwords all the way up to Windows 8. It’s a bit hard to use, but About.com has a great that walks you through the entire process, so be sure to check that out. – Login Recovery is a web site that has a program that you can either download onto a floppy disk or a cd that you than use to boot up with. If the PC is connected to the Internet, it will automatically upload the encrypted data to their servers and begin the process of trying to recover the passwords.