How To change Windows Password using Sticky Keys

You can change your password by substituting sethc.exe with cmd.exe.
Check out my online tutorial here:
http://www.techhangout.net/how-to-cha...

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if you didn't know this when you press
five times sticky
we're going to use this to change the
password first we're going to have to
restart your machine and boot into a
distribution of linux
to do this you can change your boot
order for me i'm going to use the CD you
can use a USB in which case it be under
removable devices for me i'm gonna set
cd-rom drive to the top that'll make
sure that Iran is booted first
a backtrack the GUI doesn't start right
away so you'll see me run startx right
here and that's to basically start the
GUI x interface
now we're going to browse to the windows
file structure open up the windows
folder drill down in the system 32 gb
type sys down there to find it i'm
looking for the set
HC exe what I'm going to do here is
going to cut back or move it and I'm
that's just basically going to back it
up i'm going to do that to the root of
the file system that gets that out of
there i would need to copy the command
exe and what we're going to do with that
is we're going to rename that and
renaming that the next time when you
type shift five times the system's going
to open upset HD still but this time set
AC is actually gonna be as guys there's
a command we use this to our advantage
when changing the password later
so at the reboot it back in the windows
you can simply remove your removable
meet removable media
the rebooted back into windows we're
going to go ahead and press shift five
more times again what this is gonna do
is it's going to still give us the
warning and it's also going to open up a
command prompt window so we can you use
command called that user this is going
to list all the users in the computer
that's locally stored like appear so as
you can see the user is just as it is
right there so we use net user and then
type in the username and then asked her
a simple once you do this assistance
going to prompt you to change the
password you can change the password
here to whatever you want just make sure
you enter in the same thing twice
it's gonna yell at you that you didn't
type in the password twice correctly
once you're done it will tell you that
you've done it successfully and the
password that you just changed it to you
can use right here to login
as you can see you've gained access to
this user profile
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