How to Get a Windows Password With Ophcrack

This is an instructable to teach you how to use the program Ophcrack  to get windows passwords. I am sharing this to give people the knowledge how to do this. I do not take any responsibility for what you do with this information.  I strongly advise you to not use this except on your own computer or to get permission prior to doing this.

In windows XP (which I will be using this whole instructable) the Sam files that we need are located in C: (if thats the hard drive with the OS on it) in C/windows/system32/config. If you cant find the sam files just hit ctrl+F and search for *.SAM and you will hopefully get the location. Now that you know where it is you need to get on a live CD of some sort. Because you cant copy the SAM file when Windows is active. I advise the Ophcrack Live CD because it has the ophcrack program on it already. A live flash drive could also be used. Save the whole Config file. I recommend saving it on a flash drive.

You could use the Ophcrack OS which is easy. I am using Ubuntu with Ophcrack installed on it. To get Ophcrack on Ubuntu just type in on the terminal "sudo apt-get install ophcrack" (with out quotes of corse) this will install  the program. To open the program just type in "ophcrack" on a terminal.

Now that you have the Sam files you need to open Ophcrack. If you don't have the tables you can get them at ophcrack.sourceforge.net/tables.php. You might be able to get the password cracked with out the tables but it is very unlikely. If you have a super fast computer or super slow internet the faster (not really but if you have a supercomputer with out INTERNET this might work) way might be using winrtgen (but this is super slow but does let you add special symbols).

Ok now just open the tables by going in to tables, then select the directory where you unzipped them. Now the pictures will show what to press from here.