Entering Password Protected Windows Computer without the Password

If you have a windows laptop and you don’t know the password for some reason (!) (Maybe it’s not yours ?) and want to login without entering the password, here’s a simple way to hack it without being too technical.

You just need to bypass the password protection.

I didn’t try this method on other windows versions, you can give it a try but for windows 10 and windows 11 it works perfectly fine.

(You need an empty physical pen drive to bypass)

Step 1:

Download Hiren Boot ISO file:

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

Step 2:

Mount the iso file to your USB (You will lose all of the data)

You can use RUFUS to do this.

I will skip this step.

Step 3:

Start the windows computer you want to bypass the password, and open the BIOS menu.

Depends on the manufacturer the BIOS menu can be opened with F12, ESC or Delete buttons from the keyboard during system boot.

Step 4:

Select the USB from BIOS menu to boot.

Step 5:

It will open live os, similar to a windows environment but it’s not… We will use this to delete the password.

From here, you need to delete the password of the user by following these steps:

1) from start menu search and start

Lazesoft Password Recovery

Follow the steps after launching recovery tool:

Select the windows user you wanna break into and “REMOVE” the password.

Click that big blue button.

Done, now let’s enter to the user’s windows account.
Click to restart button from the menu and remove the pen drive from the usb input.

As you can see, it didn’t ask for a password.

Done.

And this my friends, is how you can unlock a windows laptop without actually using other complicated hacking methods. I think even a kid can do this.

You can do this on Linux too but it’s a little different…

On corporate environments you can exploit computers in many ways, you can actually exploit anything without having physical access but that’s for another post…

Phoenix

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