Long story short, I am suspicious of something someone is doing on a computer in the household. They are not acting illegally but acting deceitfully.
Using windows 8, is there anything I can do to access there account without changing the password?
Accessing a Windows User Account without a Password
[Deactivated] on 26/04/2015 - 17:01
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I don't understand why this is downvoted. What is wrong with sitting down and talk in a household?
I think someone is in trouble.
FYI - I have sat down and talked to them but they are depressed and its best we know so that we can help.
If that's genuinely the case, your heart is in the right place. Snooping however isn't the right approach. You may serve only to drive a wedge would could exacerbate the issue.
Let this person you know you love them, and you are there for them no matter what. The hardest part is to be completely open and avoid judgement.
Talk with a professional sooner rather than later. Beyond Blue and the likes will be happy to help and give you some guidance as to how to approach it.
Try this link to begin with http://www.petri.com/top-4-windows-password-reset-tools.htm
There are password reset tools used by IT support staff to access admin passwords on staff pcs after a staff member has left the company.Is there a way of doing it without resetting the password? Have full access to the PC.
short answer.. no!
Passwords are there for a reason.
Yep, there's a way, assuming the bios isn't locked which it most likely isn't.
http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/Kon-Boot is an application which will silently bypass the authentication process of Windows based operating systems. Without overwriting your old password! In other words you can login to your Windows profile without knowing your password.
If you looked around you could find a "discounted" copy.
There are, but they're technical, and in no way fool-proof.
Also, I'm not sure how many of them still work on Win 8.https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Reverse_Engineering/Cracking_W…
I've tried hash-matching/rainbow tables previously for a Win 7 machine, and after three days straight of hashing, I still couldn't find the password, as which point I gave up.
What sort of access do you need? Just file access? If so, download Ubuntu and boot to it from a DVD or USB drive. You'll then have access to most of the files on the PC.
you could always try a keylogger
Yes, there are hardware keyloggers that you plug into the USB port on the back of the PC that will capture all keystrokes. I wouldn't recommend installing a software keylogger as they are often picked up by virus scanners.
Is it your computer?
yes.
I'm +1 for don't do it. If you can't talk about it now, being armed with info you shouldn't have is going to make it worse. Then you have to try to conceal that you've been spying. We can all see that this approach is going to end badly.
I don't think you should do it. Even if you find something, if you want to bring it up to him/her, you'd need to tell them that you hacked into his/her account. I don't think that's going to do your relationship with that person any good, especially if he/she have shown that they don't want to share that information.
be really careful here. if you do and get access and read Facebook, chats, web history etc you may get the wrong idea by reading it wrong. It is hard to read intent and meaning via words and if you are thinking there are problems that is what you will be reading.
eg, and this is exaggerating, you see travels sites and hotels in web history, instead of thinking holidays you could think suicide off buildings…talk and get real help, not self help, and dont be embarrassed getting it either.
What you could do is sniff the network and capture the websites and the unencrypted information being sent, it could give you a clue and perhaps also you might capture the username and password but the tools for it are pretty advanced.
Put a micro camera in the room and see what is going on.
I am really interested in what it is about.
Short answer; No - Windows passwords cannot be seen (not written in plain text), therefore cannot be bypassed without resetting it.
What information do you plan on getting? History of websites, conversations via social media / applications (such as MSN Messenger), Photos, E-mails locally downloaded via an email client, e-mails via web-based?
Some things must be locally logged in, others can be accessed bypassing the windows security.
No I have seen it before, was when people had to authenticate with a proxy server, the user & pass was sent in plain text. It does happen and there are linux tools that can filter out the rest of the traffic and just look the for passes.
Sit down and have an adult conversation with them?
If you're concerned your partner is cheating on you and you'd like to collect evidence, snooping isn't a way to make your relationship stronger.
Fighting deceit with deceit isn't the right choice.
(Meanwhile, if you've got teenagers and you're just trying to work out what porn they're looking at, you could change your router DNS to one that has tracking)