There is another solution: You can edit the registry from the recovery command prompt to enable the administrator account. You just have to load a registry hive, edit a value and you have enabled the admin account. There are some tutorials for that if you search for something like "recover lost admin account". And the crazy part is that it still works after years.
@@atcatcatc thats part of the schpiel. I was counting how much he said command prompt, one right after the other. The mannerisms are clearly parodying those tutorial vids
Usually it's f2 ESC or f7. With it sometimes so having secondary bindings on the other keys (usually f1 and f8) to get into some sub menues more quickly
@Jessica ALexis ping google.com i have now hacked into google and they are sending me packages back as i am that big of a respected hacker, im more powerful than you
There is An actual easy way(edit: in older versions of Windows), just hold the power button during startup and when it is off die tot your action power it on, select repair computer then when it says no error found don't report and click the notepad file that explains why this might happen, then click file>save as now you have access to the files rename the command prompt.exe file to utilman.exe, then restart and click accessability, now u have the command prompt, This allows you to do the samen thing without the installement file which Costa money in some country's
Lol yeah I'd use this trick when I was a kid to bypass the password my mom would set up to keep me off the computer.... Then I'd get off and she never knew, gotta love tech illiterate parents
This man is smart, he posted on April fools day so that everyone would click thinking it was a joke, but it was actually a normal video which would have had less views had it been posted on another day.
"Hey guys, DeSinc here. Today we'll be resetting a local user's password on Windows. So first what you'll want to do is initiate an accelerated back hop-"
"Ok so we're going to have to break into Microsoft headquarters to do this. Luckily there's a pallet out here. Just use hop the pallet up the 13th floor and you should be able to get through the window with a precisely timed grenade"
Technically, if you have set an administrator PW, Windows asks you for that PW before you can drop into the repair console. However, you can still use Linux to change the utilman.exe, so the actual problem is still there
@@Calebanton exactly what I realized as well, if you really wanted access to the data, you can just take out the hard drive and scavenge through it using a different pc
I did this on my school laptop for like a few years in a row (until they found out). Now it's a suspendable offense at my school. But there isn't a rule about installing Ubuntu...
@Snoi Med @Carlito Lopez @Optify In China (does not apply to Hong Kong or Taiwan), people are not used to tipping waitresses. They also don't spend a lot of time at the tables or serve / look at what you need at all times, except in places that have the American / European influence such as hotel buffets, etc. There if it is normal to receive tips. That they are offered those hot pot is a form of gratitude for the good service, since the waitresses can obviously eat that food that will be better than what they will give you at lunch / dinner. Tea is part of their culture and a ritual so to speak. Educated people always invite you for tea, not coffee like in Korea. Traditional tea places are really pretty! Beer is very very low almost like having a bitter soda, something like Thai beer, it looks like water. It is also very cheap. It costs a lot more to drink a coffee than to have a beer. In elegant restaurants it is men and from an age of 35-60 years who work in restaurants, the most modern ones now take young university students ... as in the video. I only know Shanghai & Beijin so I can't say much about how it is in other cities or small towns in mainland China. In Hong Kong & Taiwan (also in Japan) they have a habit of eating very fast in restaurants so it is another culture, unless you go to more expensive restaurants
Excellent video...only one that produced results for me after weeks of trying to get into my father's HP notebook. He had a stroke and did not write down his passwords. My mother gave it to me hoping it could be of use to someone who needs a computer during this interesting time. Thanks again!
Well that thing wont help if boot options are disabled and bios also has password for this u need to do extra steps as removing bios battery, also some motherboards have protection for this
@@feelfreetoscreenshot1733 pretty sure thats a kid. You can cringe without commenting it to publicly ridicule someone. If I'm wrong and that's not a kid though that's pretty cringe.
Thanks for the video. I am having difficulty seeing the typed sequence of letters when you are in the command window. Can you tell me what they are as the video is blurry or my screen resolution is poor? Thanks!
Hey Jim, I'd say you're much better off with a written guide as this was just meant to show that it could be done. Luckily this technique is talked about quite a lot online and is well documented, so there are many guides which go through this same process which will show up if you search for "windows replace utilman" or similar.
I actually did this to all school owned desktop computer in one of the classrooms something like 8.5 years ago. and i'm amazed that it still works to this day! and so nobody hates me for it, I did it to install google chrome so we didn't have to use the terrible internet explorer on those already slow computers. there was no mal intent and everybody that knew that i did it loved me for it and I have heard that some people didn't knew that I did it were happily surprised to find the chrome logo in place of the internet explorer logo
@@SB-og3sl Isn't that the entire point of an exploit like this though? To access administrative accounts with important information on a computer you don't own but have physical access to?
@@clocked0 Most devices with sensitive data do not allow you to boot from portable media without a master password, some corporations still do not have this protection enabled or setup, but most schools have it as had mine.
A friend of mine's parents blocked his computer 10 o'clock every night and didn't give him admin permissions or the administrator password, so every time he wanted to install something he had to call his dad to put in the password. Very uncomfortable. So at 12 years old he taught himself how to do this and did it, giving himself admin permission without his parents' knowledge. Genius
I did that with my computer. My mom did the windows family thing and restricted me to like an hour of computer, and i had to ask her for permission all the time. it was really annoying and a pain in the behind to request and be granted the time, and i didnt want to bother her, so most of the time i knew she would say yes, i would just open the on screen keyboard (which i replaced with the task manager) and delete the windows family restrictions process. Granted, I did have admin perms while signed in, so i just had to go to System32, but still.
I just put Arch Linuz on the drive and dual booted when I was around that age. Didn't have to deal with the clunkiness of Windows. Made sure to put Windows as the first boot option, though. Otherwise the bootloader would go into Arch first.
Used to work in a computer shop back when I was 14 and one of the staff showed me this trick, a year later my user account got corrupted by a Microsoft update and meant I couldn’t log in. Use this workaround to get CMD up and just used the computer from the CMD (don’t even remember how I did it but I was able to access to start screen and everything and even play battlefield 3 for like a week). I eventually got tired of having to repeatedly do this workaround so I just partitioned my hard drive from the CMD and formatted it. Good times
Hackers in movies: “I’m hacking into the system main frame by encrypting my data to allow access to the cloud files bla bla bla...” Hackers in real life: 1:17
"Our webs are down, sir. We can't log in!" "Which webs?" "All of them." "They've penetrated our code walls. They're stealing the internet!" "We'll need to hack all IPs simultaneously."
"Some computers have this on F10, F11, F12, F8..." I hate how true this is. And no company can seem to stick to one key even in their own product lines. One model will be one key and a model a year later a different key.
DeSinc: Lets have a look at the password and have a crack at it to see if we get lucky. *Proceeds to put one 2 letter password in and then gives up after one try*
@Unknown Stinger Oh yeah, go eat shit edgy kid, why don't you go hear some music and cry because you have school or something? Get a better hobby than insultung stuff you don't know about or don't care.
When trying to login: “Ok so this is where the level real-“ *Computer doesn’t let him in* couple hacks later: “Ok so this is where the level really opens up”
TechBreakingLawyer lmao. And this is a legit tutorial too. Man's has completely lost it. Also can you make a tutorial on how to get in any apple's computer without password? Got this sweet laptop, but damn telemarketer forgot to tell me the pass.
Like low security physical locks, Windows Accounts should be treated as a way of keeping honest people honest. They'll stop people casually snooping through your stuff but are useless against even a moderately skilled targeted attack. Fortunately for computer users though, good encryption with a strong password is free and more difficult/costly/time consuming to break than pretty much any physical lock.
@@hrinn BitLocker comes with Windows and is probably decent enough (main advantage being native support from Windows). If you want to encrypt your entire system drive instead of just individual files your computer needs a TPM (a hardware security device to store the encryption keys so the computer can decrypt it before it boots up). Some computers come with them, check the specsheets.
Honestly. I'm not joking. I know this is a gaming/comedy channel mostly from Half Life, but I legit used this for one of my deed, and the hell it worked flawlessly when I never thought it won't work. I love you Desinc.
All my nerd friends and I would do this to the school computers like 4 years ago so we could play steam games during are online classes. Lol I’m surprised they never fix this.
I learned how to do this when i was around 12 years old with my first pc, eventually my step-dad found out and threatened to throw the computer out the window if i did it again. He still brags about it at work to his friends, love that man.
I got a laptop at a garage sale today, and it was locked. Fortunately I had seen this video, so I came back to it, and it worked! I wouldn't have ever guessed my favorite halflife youtuber would help me with my computer!
If you're wondering how you can prevent this from happening on your own computer, one way is to enable disk encryption. This will prevent the attacker from being able to read/modify the files on your drive (unless they know the encryption key). Also, you can set an admin password in the BIOS if your computer supports it, to prevent others from booting from media in the first place.
haha I'm stoked to hear someone actually got helped by this, it was more of a joke video but as you found out the trick is very real. no donations required, I'm glad you got your predicament solved though! if you really want to there is a patreon out there under my channel name.. somewhere
What i'd do if it was a second hand laptop that was purchased and the owner forgot to wipe it is that i'll shift+restart it to access the recovery options then wipe windows so i don't see any personal data
(wow almost 4k likes, sweet guys thanks) Hah! I wasn't expecting to be legit, although this has been known for a while among the IT community. And I like the LPL style! XD Some things to note for others or you DeSinc if you care to listen: 1. That command prompt doesn't actually run as administrator, you even mentioned yourself that the administrator account was disabled and had to be activated. That command prompt was actually running using the SYSTEM account, making it even more dangerous as that's one level higher than the Administrator account. 2. If you wish to protect yourself from this attack, for example, if you had a laptop and travel a lot with it, please open your bios where you can set a bios password. A bios password is a password prompt that appears before the "press key to open bios" screen appears, rendering this type of attack pointless.
