How to log into a computer rather then a domain?

Question

Although for anyone who knows what they are doing the question may sound logical... But my school has the computers set up so that the user can start it up and press ctrl + alt + delete, then log in with user and pass. This will log straight into the domain... a server which I have no way of accessing... so I want to be able to log into the actual the computer and not a domain name. I do not have a password but I do have ophcrack and other cd's to get the user and pass. I do have access to power shell and cmd but not administrator privilagess.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I assume you have the following setup:

To log into the domain, you enter "domainusername" and "domainpassword" into the credential fields. The "domainname" is set by default (Windows remembers your last login, so if the last one was to the domain, the next will be automatically again).

Your resulting login name is then "domainname\domainusername".

To log into the PC instead, replace the loginname with the name of the pc and a local accountname like this:

"computername\localusername".

You still need to know the password, the computername and localusername you should be able to find out when logged into the domain.

Answer 2

Try Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (DL here: http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ )

Just download the .iso-file, read the instructions, boot it, remove the user's password (you can remove all user's password, and it takes about 30 seconds from start to finish, no matter whether it's an administrator or not, or whether the password's one letter or twenty letters!



Oh, and it works on Windows NT, XP, Vista, 7 and 8, both 32-bit and 64-bit!



(The only possibly confusing thing is, that in the very end, it asks whether you want to "write back changes" and the default is No. You have to put "Yes", because it means whether it actually puts the changes in the register.)

Answer 3

You dont know what you are doing well enough to hack your school computers without getting caught and being in big, big trouble.