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If you lose or forget the Windows password, can you regain Windows
account login? The answer is certainly yes (and there is not only one
route to the Rome).

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Take Windows Vista for example, the OS built in with a function calls
“Create Password Reset Disk”. However, the question is how many of
you bother to create one of this disk? Another problem of Windows
Password Reset Disk is being unique to an account (good from
security point of view).

That’s to say, even if you create a Windows Password Reset Disk for Hardware May 2010
account A of Windows machine A, you cannot use it to reset account Internet April 2010
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If you wake up in such a bad day that you forget the password and Windows Vista December 2009
there is NO Windows password reset disk, Trinity Rescue Kit may be Tricks November 2009
able to get you back to luck. Linux October 2009
Freeware September 2009
Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is a Live CD running Linux kernel; with an July 2009
Microsoft
ISO image size at about 130MB; bootable from USB drive, CD/DVD, June 2009
Security
or over network from PXE. May 2009
Windows 7

The TRK owner, Tom Kerremans (a.k.a. Harakiri), creates a shell script
calls winpass to automatically search and mount NTFS file system
followed by calling chntpw to edit SAM file in
%windir%\system32\config.

The magic is the chntpw (Offline NT Password & Registry Editor) that
enable or unlock a Windows account (be it the real Vista SP1
Administrator account) and reset the Windows password to blank or
new password.

How to use Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) to unlock Vista SP1 hidden
Administrator account and reset the forgotten password to
blank?

Linux OS is case-sensitive, i.e. Linux doesn’t agree “walker” and

“Walker” are the same string. TRK is based on Linux kernel.
Thus, please be reminded it’s also case-sensitive!

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1) Download TRK from the genuine TrinityHome.org. In my “video-

shot”, the latest Trinity Rescue Kit 3.3 build 321 is used (file name:
trinity-rescue-kit.3.3-build-321.iso, MD5 checksum:
128abbe0a4b4d863d08bd10263f90755).

2) Burn the ISO image file to CD/DVD-ROM and boots it up (the easier
way to boot up TRK). While the TRK boot menu appears, you have
about 10 seconds to choose one of the boot options or just let it
boots up with default option (recommended).

3) After the Linux boot processes complete, you should see the Linux
command prompt appears. You’re ready to execute winpass shell
script to start searching local hard disk for Windows NTFS file systems
with Windows installation folder (%windir%). Unless it’s dual-boot
machine, there is only 1 search result – enter 1 and press ENTER or
just press ENTER to accept the default answer:

Type winpass to start searching Windows NTFS file system with Windows installation
directory.

When executing winpass without option switch, the default action of

chntpw is to deal with Administrator account. To deal with particular
Windows account, e.g. Walker, type

Next, multiple lines of text scroll up. Take note of a section call SAM
Policy Limits:

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Vet through the winpass digest of SAM file and check is the Vista SP1 hidden
Administrator account is currently locked or disabled.

If the Vista SP1 hidden Administrator account is locked/disabled (i.e.

the dis/lock keyword appears in “Locked?” column), choose option 4
to “unlock and enable user account”:

Use TRK winpass shell script to unlock or enabled the ultimate Vista SP1 Administrator
account.

When the “Unlocked!” keyword is seen, it indicates the Administrator

account is successfully unlocked/enabled. Finally, execute winpass
again and choose option 1 to reset the Administrator password to
blank (doesn’t matter it’s actually blank or you’ve forgotten it).

That’s all to get the job done. Good luck!

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Mark March 13th, 2009 6:29 AM

Worked a treat, thanks!!

Paul April 10th, 2009 10:14 AM

Sorry about this dumb question. After i downloaded

TRK and burned it into a CD, I try to open it up but it
always gives me the “Windows cannot open this file”
message. Can you please explain to me what i need
to do to open up TRK?

Walker April 13th, 2009 1:16 AM

@Pual, you should able to browse the CD content

after burning the ISO image successfully onto CDR.

Bear in mind that the TRK is actually a customized

Linux distribution, so you can’t run any programs in
the TRK CD except to view some of the ASCII files in it.

Dada July 25th, 2009 6:18 PM

Thanks a lot. I tried everything to help my friend

unlock her forgotten pw… Tried orphcrack but it
couldn’t decrypt it. Resetting was easy.

Dada

Tanner July 30th, 2009 5:21 AM

I used this to help my friends in laws reset their lost

vista passwords. They were very appreciative, and
both me and my friends family were pleasantly
surprised at how quick it was.

Thanks Walker.

And more thanks to Trinity for making it.

VistaSp2 September 25th, 2009 11:37 PM

I did this and all it did was add an administrator

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account and the passwords were invalid

COMeOM November 28th, 2009 3:47 AM

You should have mentioned that the administrator

account has to be enabled in vista in order to even
log in. Reguardless if you know the password or not.

seredie December 16th, 2009 7:07 AM

I have a packard bell laptop (Vista home premium)

that was given to me from a student friend that
forgot his user password. No additional administrator
account was created yet. This laptop won’t start from
cd so I cannot use this miracle kit. I tried to change
the boot option but unfortunately it requires a BIOS password
that nobody knows. The common Masterpassword don’t work.
How can I remove the BIOS password ? Does someone help me
please !!

adej December 22nd, 2009 10:15 PM

@walker.hello pls am in need of your help badly,

i followed the instructions provided on your web

page,

i downloaded the trinity rescue kit version 3.2 Build 279 from the
TRK official home page using garr mirror

and after all the process,i try to boot

my win vista home premium with it and got the message bellow:

ISOLINUX 3.31 2006-07-05 copyright© 1994-2005 H.Peter Anvin

Unknown Keyword in config file.

Could not find kernel Image:Linux

boot:

and there after nothing happens,What do you think could be the

problem?

pls i need your response cos ma project is in trouble.

Walker December 22nd, 2009 10:28 PM

I suppose you’ve burnt the ISO file of TRK

successfully and booted it up from CD/DVD-ROM

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drive.

Before burning the ISO file to CD/DVD-ROM, did you

check and confirm the MD5 checksum of the downloaded ISO file
with the one published by TRK official website?

adej December 25th, 2009 1:48 AM

@walker i didn’t do that, cos i don’t know how to.pls

how do i check and confirm the MD5 checksum.my
notebook is acer aspire 4937

Walker December 25th, 2009 3:01 AM

Google “how to check md5sum”

adej December 26th, 2009 8:20 PM

@walker you are the best man i tried the stuff and it
worked thank’s so much

Roddy January 30th, 2010 12:50 AM

i have a hpcompaq 6735s laptop, and i have

forgotten he password.

To solve the problem, i downloaded and burnt the

Trinity R K software but the system does not even boot with the
CD even when i boot with it inside and set it to boot from CD, it
still gives the same result.

How do i make the laptop boot from the CD??

please i need your help i am but a layman when it comes to

computers and i really need to get research work done.

Thank you.

Roddy.

Walker January 30th, 2010 1:39 PM

Assume you have burnt the valid TRK ISO file to

CD/DVD-ROM and it is bootable, then
1. Access to the laptop BIOS and set the first
boot drive to CD/DVD-ROM drive.

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2. Load the TRK bootable DVD/CD-ROM to the
DVD/CD-ROM drive

Robert February 13th, 2010 4:02 PM

After running that program, and going to restart, my

HDD is no long accessible, and the laptop will not
boot at all.. NOTHING… WTH happened? I followed all
the instructions to the “T” . Now the Laptop is a
paper weight. I have a Toshiba Satellite running Vista
Home. Need serious help.

Rossi March 27th, 2010 12:49 PM

Cheers bud, helped me out a treat to get into a

locked Vista box – I’ve used UBCD and the like in the
past, but Trinity seems a much better solution all
round.

Josh May 5th, 2010 1:16 PM

I am running my laptop on an external moniter

because my screen is cracked and i can’t see
anything. I haven’t used me computer in months and
forgot my password. I can’t access the external
moniter until the windows login screen. How can I
reset my password?

Walker May 6th, 2010 12:07 AM

Does the BIOS supports external display instead of

relying on the OS?

Havok May 8th, 2010 1:33 AM

I am able to boot to the disk but it gets caught in a

cycle say..”respawning too fast disabled for 5
minutes” Please Please help..

Walker May 9th, 2010 2:15 PM

Sorry I can’t help you on this.

I suggest you to post this question on the official
TRK forum.

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