how to bypass windows password

Bypass or reset windows admin or non-admin password using Kali Linux

Hello guys,

If you forgot your windows user’s password and your important data are exists on this system. In this case you need to bypass or reset your windows admin or non-admin user’s password to get your important data from this system. If you don’t know how you can reset your windows users password, then this article can help you to bypass your windows user’s password without losing data.

Because Windows password is saved in SAM file that is exist in Windows/System32/config folder and it is also exist in C drive. So you have make changes in SAM file to bypass or reset window’s password and it can be done by kali linux easily.

In this process you will need a at least 4GB USB drive and Kali Linux ISO file you can download kali linux ISO file form it’s official site kali.org. I will use kali linux live USB drive to run kali linux live on our system to reset or bypass windows user’s password. So to do this follow the steps given below :-

Step 1:- Make live bootable USB drive with kali linux and boot boot your system with kali linux in live mode. When you successfully start kali linux live on your system then click Places and click on Computer as you can see in the following image.

If don’t know how to make kali linux live bootable USB drive then read this article - how make kali linuxlive bootable USB drive.

Step 2:- After it you have to click on Other Locations and open your C drive, in C drive you can find Windows folder or directory, here right click on Windows folder and click on Open in Terminal to doing this windows folder will be open in terminal as you can see following pictures.

Step 3:- Now, you have to open config folder in terminal, it is exist in System32 folder. SAM file is exists in config folder. I will do changes in SAM file using chntpw tool, it is preinstalled in kali linux. So to open config folder you have to type command cd System32/config in your terminal. As you can see in the following picture.

Step 4:- Now I will use chntpw tool to reset windows user’s password. You can type chntpw in terminal to open help of chntpw tool.

You have type command chntpw -l SAM in terminal to list all users in SAM file. You can see the list of users in SAM file in following picture. From the user list I will reset password of user MikeyToTech.

To reset password of user MikeyToTech, you have to type command chntpw -u MikeyTOTech in your terminal. Running this command you can see User Edit Menu, here you can see five options to edit your user, first option is for reset user password. I will use the first option to reset user password, so type 1 and press enter. See the following pictures.

When you enter 1 and press enter, your named user password will be clear. After it you have to press q and press enter, when you do this, it will ask you to make changes in SAM file you have to press y and enter, as you can see in the following picture.