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I found out about Hak5 after it joined Rev3. I really enjoy watching the show, keep up the good work. I am still catching up on the old episodes. It must take a lot of effort and energy to put the show together while having a full time job.

What do you guys think of using Visual C# 2008 Express edition for writing the codes. I was looking at some of the online tutorials, and they dont tell you what to use to compile the codes. On MS website i saw that the Express editions were free. Are there light weight compilers that I could use to write my first "Hello World!" program in C#?

downloading live cd right now, thanks. I am also trying john the ripper on bt3. Learning new stuff. @H@l0_F00 Ophcrack worked great, thanks. It was actually pretty fast for weak password.

you have got a point there. But with that method you reset the admin password to gain system access. there is no possibility to restore the system to its original state (original admin password). So you leave the system modified, in order to gain admin access and leave tracks behind. Its a good method to reset admin password none the less. ---edit: Ophcrack worked great for cracking the hash. thanks for the help though.

@ C-S-B do u mean reset password or add user? and data encrypted with admin password will be lost if I reset admin pass right? @X3N do u mean to say use Offline passward/regedit tool within UBCD? edit: If the admin password is changed, is it possible to restore to original without knowing what it is?

the link to the compiled version of utilman.exe is down. Since the original post was made long time ago, does the method still work on XP professional sp3? edit: @C-S-B from Offline NT pw & reg-editor website "DANGER WILL ROBINSON! If used on users that have EFS encrypted files, and the system is XP or Vista, all encrypted files for that user will be UNREADABLE! and cannot be recovered unless you remember the old password again If you don't know if you have encrypted files or not, you most likely don't have them. (except maybe on corporate systems) " Thats is exactly a situation I would like to avoid. any other solutions? thanks a bunch at

Hey guys, Love the podcast, only made my account here today as I ran into a problem. I read the pinned post on gaining admin access to XP machine. While it was very informative, I couldnt get the compiled version of the util file (the link to web1000.com doesnt work anymore). And I cant compile VB code myself. Been searching how to add admin account on google but havnt figured it out yet. I have downloaded, UBCD, Hiren's cd, BT3, Bart, Ubuntu. I have figured out how to reset admin password. Is is possible to add a new admin user without having access to admin account? if that is not possible, is it possible to run (install) program with admin access under normal user (without admin password). --This is on Windows XP professional SP3 that I have full physical access to. Love the show at