Cracking The Windows Login Password

   If you’d like to unearth the best-kept secrets of major software developers, PC manufacturers, and even computer technicians, keep your eyes glued to this page. You won’t find this insider information anywhere else on the Web, Why? Because the computer industry doesn't want you to find out. If everybody knew these secrets it would cost the industry millions of dollars in lost hardware and software sales!
So what's this secret? Well, I'll tell you, it will transform a standard PC into a fast, efficient, and highly stable machine, it only takes minutes to do, anyone can do it and it uses NO dangerous or difficult methods such as disassembling your computer!


    The Windows ( 9x) password is passed through a very weak algorithm and is quite easy to crack. Windows stores this login password in *.pwl files in the c:\windows directory. The .pwl files have the filename which is the username corresponding to the password stored by it. A typical .pwl file 
would be as follows:

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      Lets go through the contents of this .pwl file. I am not sure what the first line signifies, but my guess would be that it is the Name to which the computer is registered to. The next four lines have just been entered by Windows and are not readable. The last two lines is the password but in the 
encrypted form. There is no way to get the plaintext password by just studying the Windows algorithm and these lines.

          Or U can even follow up this trick

This  *.pwl file is stored in the location    C:\Windows> 

and just type the following line.

C:\Windows> ren *.pwl *.xyz

     This will rename the file extension from pwl to xyz. So when your computer ll start it will 1st try to find the *.pwl files but when it won't get them it won't ask any password and will directly get in to it. N thus windows login password is cracked..

 

 

Pop a banner each time Windows Boots

     To pop a banner which can contain any message you want to display just before a user is going to log on, go to the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\

Windows\CurrentVersion\WinLogon

    Now create a new string Value in the right pane named LegalNoticeCaption and enter the value that you want to see in the Menu Bar. Now create yet another new string value and name it: LegalNoticeText. Modify it and insert the message you want to display each time Windows boots. This can be effectively used to display the company's private policy each time the user logs on to his NT box. It's .reg file would be:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft

\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"LegalNoticeCaption"="Caption here."

 

          

Customizing The Shortcut Arrow

     All shortcuts have a tiny black arrow attached to it's icon to distinguish from normal files. This arrow can sometimes be pretty annoying and as a Hacker should know how to change each and everything, here goes another trick. Launch the Registry Editor and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\

Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons.

     Now, on the right pane is a list of icons ( we found out that on some systems, Windows 98 especially, the right pane is blank. Don't worry, just add the value as required ). Find the value 29. If it isn't there, just add it. The value of this string should be C:\Windows\system\shell32.dll, 29 ( which means the 30th icon in shell32.dll - the first one begins with 0 ). Now, we need blank icon to do this. Just create one with white as the whole icon. Go here to learn how to create an icon. Once done just change the value to C:\xxx.ico, 0 where "xxx" is the full path of the icon file and "0" is the icon in it.

      Now for some fun. If the blank icon is a bit boring, change it again. You will find that under shell32.dll there is a gear icon, a shared folder ( the hand ) and much more.

 

 

       Experiment for yourself!

 

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