Wednesday, October 29, 2008

how to hack windows login password without booting

all you have to do is this......
When u start the computer, press F8 to get the list of the several booting modes. Boot in DOS mode.
Write the following DOS command :-

ren *pwl *xyz

This command renames the password files into something unrecognizable
Then once you log into windows. remember to change *xyz back into *pwl
You can also delete the password files, but i recommend you don't do that.

Another way is to boot in safe mode, log into the administrator account (it's named Administrator)
and change the password for your desired account from there.
But this method will not be possible to carry out if the user has put a password on the administrator account as well (I have). But most people don't bcuz this account is not shown duringnormal booting process. It's only shown during booting in safe mode.

Anyways, these are the only methods i'm aware of. If you know more, do put it in the forum.
Happy hacking!!!!

Friday, October 24, 2008

Updating firefox2 to firefox3 in linux

its a real hassle that mozilla does not provide an rpm file to install firefox.
i use mandriva 2008.0 which has firefox-2.0.0.6
I wanted to upgrade it to firefox3.0
i got the tar.bz2 file but if i wanted to run firefox3 then i had to go to the extracted folder and run from there. If I ran firefox from the desktop then the older version started up.....
what i had to do was to write commands for backing up my old firefox and then installing the new one....

here it is......

1. first backup the old firefox version :-

$ mkdir ff.backup/
$ cp -avr .mozilla/ ff.backup/

2. download firefox-3

$ cd /tmp
$ wget 'http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=linux&lang=en-us'

3. switch to root user
$ su -

4. the important part...installing firefox-3
# cd /opt
# mv firefox firefox.old
# cp /tmp/firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 /opt
# tar -jxvf firefox-3.0.tar.bz2

5. exit from root user mode
# exit

6. finally start firefox
$ /opt/firefox/firefox &

The browser will then look for updates to the add-ons and will then start......
so folks.......enjoy using firefox-3.0 !!!!