Shift presses five times, Vista easily breaks

. More and more users install XP+Vista dual system, but there are always some Ma Daha who will forget the Vista account password. Since Vista uses a stricter login authentication than XP, if we forget the login password, it is very difficult for us to enter the system. However, Microsoft has a sticky key vulnerability in the login interface that can be used to access Vista.

Sticky Keys vulnerability refers to our Shif according to the five next start (sethc.exe system directory) Sticky Keys in the login screen, so we can replace sethc.exe start cmd.exe command in XP At the prompt, then use the command prompt to enter Vista to reset the account password.

this dual system is assumed to be C drive for XP, D drive for Vista.

Step 1: After entering XP system, open d:\\windows\\system32, right click on sethc.exe and select "Properties" to open the property setting window, click the "Security" tab, and then click "Advanced".

Step 2: In the Advanced Properties Security Settings window, switch to the "Owners" tab, select the current XP login account in the owner list, then click "Apply" and close all windows in turn.

Since the Vista installation partition is in NTFS format, we can only perform the replacement operation after changing the ownership of the sethc.exe file under XP. If the property window does not have a "safe" label. Need to open the Explorer, click "Tools → Folder Options", in the window that opens, remove the check box before "Use Simple Folder Sharing (Recommended)".

Step 3: Open the properties window of sethc.exe again and switch to the "Security" tab, click "Add" to add the current XP account to the "Group or User Name" list, and The account has full control of sethc.exe set to "Allow". Then start a command prompt and enter the following command to replace:

Rename d:\\windows\\system32\\sethc.exe sethc1.exe (rename the sticky key program to sethc1.exe)
Copy d: \\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe d:\\windows\\system32\\sethc.exe (copy command prompt is sethc.exe)

Step 4: Restart the computer to log in to Vista, press five on the Vista login screen. Shif starts the sticky key. At this time, the command prompt interface is started. Enter Explorer.exe to start the desktop. After successfully loading the file, we can see the start menu, which is the desktop launched by the system's built-in SYSTEM account (can be seen under the start menu user icon).