I've been trying to get on my dads laptop for a while, i still can't do it... do you know how to find a password from the login screen ?

You that nosey? Do you really want to cause that much grief in the family?

What would your reaction be if he did it to you? Precisely my point!

no but there is a really good program to crack windows passwords and its free to download and legal

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It has the following features:


Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (intel).
Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
Free tables available for alphanumeric LM hashes.
Loads hashes from local SAM, remote SAM.
Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition, Vista included


get it here

http://ophcrack.en.softonic.com/

hope this helps it runs from dos so no need to install

Chances are that the admin user is still on the default settings.

Try logging in as the administrator and either leave the password blank of try "admin" (without the quotes) if a blank password doesn't work.

Once logged on as administrator go to users and change his password to something that you'll remember