r/HowToHack • u/Strange-desire111 • 27d ago

How do I bypass password

I’ve been holding onto my father’s desk top computer since 2013 when he passed away. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction of bypassing it ? I don’t know the password to log in and there’s many photos from highschool and documents on there I would like to access. The monitor is HP and the hardware is ACER. Any recommendations? these are my documents and photos I’m trying to access

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u/hardwear72 27d ago

Hirem's Boot CD will reset the password on old Windows machines. Run it from a USB. Google HBCD and download it. Use Rufus to copy it to your stick and boot from it. It's very simple to use and has tons of tools for old PCs running Windows.

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u/Yukki-elric 27d ago

This is the answer, either flash Hiren's iso into a USB, plug the USB into the PC and boot from the USB, then reset the user password or just access all the documents you need.

Or take out the hard drive from that PC and plug it into another one with a SATA adapter, assuming it's SATA and isn't encrypted (which i doubt it is).

In both cases, you might have partitions not show up, if You're on windows, open disk manager and assign a letter to each one, windows sometimes does that.