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How to Change a Computer Password Using Command Prompt

Ever thought of becoming an actual "hacker"? This article shows how to change a computer password and do other things using a command prompt. A command prompt is a command using the special built-in program that comes with every computer which allows you to do almost anything on a computer. Steps Open Command Prompt. If you don't know how, open the Start menu, go to Programs (or on Windows 2000 and up, all programs), go to Accessories, then you'll see Command Prompt, click it. You'll see a black screen pop up. Type in: "Net User" It will then show you a detailed little chart of all the User Accounts on the computer. Choose which account you want to hack. Say it says the user accounts are: Owner, Administrator, John, Alice, Christopher, and Guest. You choose Alice (Say you wanted to annoy your wife or girlfriend, I told you this would be a useful guide ;) ). Now type: "Net User Alice", it'll give you A LOT of information about the account. ...

How to Break a BIOS Password

Desktop Power off the computer and make sure that it is unplugged. Open up your computer case. You need physical access to the motherboard to complete this procedure. Find a circular, (mostly) silver metallic object on the motherboard. This is the CMOS battery. CAREFULLY remove the CMOS battery and leave it out for about 120 seconds. This will flush the CMOS memory which stores the BIOS password and all other configuration. (See Warnings ) Set the battery back into place and power on the computer. The computer should then warn you that the CMOS configuration could not be found. You can either reconfigure it yourself or restore defaults. Restoring the default configuration should be fine. You will notice that the BIOS password has been cleared and you can boot without it. You may reset the BIOS password to something else by going into the BIOS configuration and setting a new User Password (The Supervisor Password controls access to the BIOS, NOT the computer!) Laptop Remember that lapto...

How to Hack Windows

If you ever needed information on hacking Windows, then here you go. However, keep in mind that this is for learning purposes only. When the computer starts up, hold down F8 before you see the "Windows Starting" screen. This will bring you to a screen with choices. Your best bet will be "Safe Mode with Command Prompt". You can then do as you wish. Dialog will appear: you're going to want to go down to the bottom and select "All Files". Then you are going to name the file: Batch.bat. After that, go to where you saved it, and open it. That will open up Command Prompt. However, if the computer has notepad blocked, you can easily go to any web page and then go to "View>View Source". That will easily open up Notepad. After that, you will be able to do as you wish inside command prompt. Here is how to add or delete accounts: Add Account: C:>net user USERNAME /add Change Accounts password: C:>net user USERNAME * then you'll be able to e...