Hacking Window 7 Password Using Ophcrack

What Is Ophcrack ?

It comes with Graphical user interface and runs on many platform such windows, linux and mac.  It allows you to recover or windows password.

How we can hack Windows 7 Password Using Ophcrack ?

  1. Download Opcrack 
  2. Download windows xp or windows 7 live cd depending on platform you are wishing to hack. 

  2. burn the live image in to the cd.
  3. Insert disk and restart your system
  4. If everything goes right you will see screen like below.

  5. After you see screen like above wait for ophcrack to boot automatically or you may press Enter to advance.
  6. Now you will see several lines of code printed on screen or they might disappear very quickly (you dont need to worry about that).
  7. Then you will see screen like below it is ophcrack password recovering software. At the Ophcrack screen it shows the Administrator and Guest account. Notice the word “empty”. This means that if the account is enabled you could log in without a password.

  8. Ophcrack WILL NOT CRACK THE PASSWORD because the hash table which it needs is not available for free. But it does show the NTLM hash.
  9. Copy this hash value which is under NT Hash field.
 10. Navigate to  which is an online hash cracking tool.
 11. Type in the hash value you copied down in Step 9, Enter the captche and click onCrack Hashes.