Ophcrack is a nice tool that helps you recover the passwords for the accounts on your Windows computer. Ophcrack is fast and easy enough for a first-time password cracker with basic Windows skills.
What is Ophcrack?
Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.
Ophcrack Features:
» Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, ...
» Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
» Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista/7.
» Brute-force module for simple passwords.
» Audit mode and CSV export.
» Real-time graphs to analyze the passwords.
» LiveCD available to simplify the cracking.
» Dumps and loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition.
» Free and open source software (GPL).
Ophcrack LiveCD, is simply the best way to recover a Windows password. It's nearly fool-proof operation, automatic password recovery, and overall speed puts Ophcrack in a league of its own.
The Ophcrack LiveCD requires some preparation but this password recovery tool is by far the best. After just a few minutes of running the software, Ophcrack will find all of your Windows passwords and display them on screen! Yes, it's that easy!
Software is freely available for download online
Passwords are recovered automatically using the LiveCD method
No software installation is necessary to recover passwords
No knowledge of any existing passwords is necessary
Ophcrack works with Windows 10 Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
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See Step-by-Step Guide to How To Use Ophcrack LiveCD for Windows password cracking.
How To Burn an ISO File to a USB Drive
Download Rufus, a free tool can help us to prepare the USB drive,automatically extract the contents of the ISO file you have, and properly copy the files contained within it to your USB device, including any files in the ISO needed to make it bootable and will "burn" an ISO image file to any type of USB storage device. Be sure to choose Rufus 2.12 Portable format.
See Step-by-Step Guide to How To Use Ophcrack LiveCD for Windows password cracking.
- Open the executable file of Rufus
- Plug in your USB Flash Drive (Back-up any important files on that USB Flash Drive). We will format the Flash Drive
- You can leave the settings as default
- Click the button that opens an ISO
- Find the ISO of the OphCrack_LiveCD.iso
- The settings will change corresponding to the ISO file
- The ISO file will finish being set into the USB within 15 minutes or so
- After Rufus finishes setting the USB Flash Drive with OphCrack_LiveCD.iso then safely eject your USB Flash Drive
- When restarting your computer, press F2, F8, or F10 to get into the utility set-up to change the Boot Order
- Change the Boot Order so that USB Drive is at the top of the list, so that USB Flash Drive will have priority boot order than the Hard Drive
- Press a key to boot on a USB Flash Drive with OphCrack_LiveCD.iso
- Set-up runs normally. It works!
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