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Forgot your Windows 8 password? Can’t access to your account?? Need to recover your personal and valuable data??? And you don’t have any hopes left????

Not any more unless you got some brains and willing to get it all back. Let’s get in to the business shall we? 😀

Step 1. Get a Linux Live Cd or bootable USB*

*If you don’t have one, we’ll create one. 😉 Download the software from this link: http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ and download the Ubuntu OS from this link: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop then create a Linux CD or USB. And of course you have to use another PC or a laptop for that since you cannot access to your one.

Step 2. Boot from the Linux CD or USB**

**Click: Try Ubuntu or Try Linux

Step 3. Go to C:\Windows\System32***

***Click: Left corner, a folder like icon. Then to where your OS has been installed. Not the recovery drive. Not the OEM drive. Simply where the system files are.

Step 4. Rename “Utilman.exe” file to “Utilman1.exe”

Step 5. Now rename “cmd.exe” file to “Utilman.exe”

Step 6. Restart your PC and remove the CD or USB

Step 7. Now you will see a screen like a normal windows 8 login

Step 8. Now click on “Ease of access”(Left bottom corner of the screen) and cmd.exe will pop up****

****No, it’s not magic. That’s why we changed that “Utilman.exe” to “cmd.exe” 😉

Step 9. Type “net user”, without quotes in command prompt and hit enter. It will show all users list.

Step 10. Now you have to add a new user so type;

“net user /add david 1234”

Here your new username is “david” and its password is “1234”

Step 11. Now you have to make this user as an administrator, so type;

“net localgroup administrators david /add”

Then type; “net share concfg*C:\/grant:david,full” Type exactly how it shows!

This command will give the user, david, full access on the system. Which means, he has the administrative rights and can access to any user folders. And that’s our purpose. 😀

Step 12. Restart your pc, and login with your new user here its “david”, give the password “1234”

Step 13. Now you are done! You may create a new user and transfer your personal files or you can delete the account.

Step 14. Now you might need to change the modification you have done to the system file, so restart the PC and boot with the Linux CD or USB. Then go to C:\Windows\System32 folder, rename “Utilman.exe” to “cmd.exe” and now rename “Utilman1.exe” to “Utilman.exe”.

Step 15. Restart and remove the Linux CD or USB.

All done! Enjoy your recovered data. J

PS: If you have by any chance a Microsoft account that synced, you don’t have to be this much troubled. Please visit Microsoft website and reset your Microsoft account password and try log in with internet access. If that doesn’t help, oh yes this will help you. 😀

References:

http://born2hackk.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-hack-windows-8-admin-password.html

http://vishnuvalentino.com/tips-and-trick/how-to-add-user-with-administrator-rights-using-command-prompt/

Team of young undergraduates (Team Firebird) from IIT (Institute of Information Technology) has won a special award in the Imagine Cup 2013 finals held in Russia. i-Chum, a product that helps visually impaired through augmented sensory aids won the “Digital Native Award” sponsored by Samsung. The team also won $10,000 in prize money.

i-cham product

i-Chum allows visually impaired to interact with and experience the “unseen” world through digital sensory input. By the look, it is a pair of glass with built in earphones and microphones. It reminds the “Google glass” in a way. But it’s not just a glass with more gadgets in it! When connected to a smart phone or tablet PC running MS Windows 8, user can use this gadget to navigate indoor and outdoor environments with facilities for obstacle avoidance, object identification without touching, generic reading and writing. Using its wide range of sensors and the camera, it communicates with the user and the user can also communicate back with the device using the microphones.

“285 million people are visually impaired worldwide. 39 million are blind and 246 have low vision. About 90% of the worlds visually impaired live in developing countries.”

It’s a neat gadget that can make a significant leap on how the visually impaired “looks” at the world.

i-cham_features

Team Firebird

Team consists of Stefan Udumalagala, Amal Gunatilake, Mohamed Shehan, Kishore Kumar

“With our product “I-Chum” the visually impaired will no longer be impaired, they could be just as independent and normal as their next door neighbor who has perfect vision.”

Some useful information about this years competition is summarized in the following infographic.

imagine_cup_info_russia_2013

Image credits: http://blogs.technet.com

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Forgot your Windows 8 Password?

Team of IIT undergrads win Samsung Digital Native Award in Imagine Cup finals

“285 million people are visually impaired worldwide. 39 million are blind and 246 have low vision. About 90% of the worlds visually impaired live in developing countries.”

Team Firebird

“With our product “I-Chum” the visually impaired will no longer be impaired, they could be just as independent and normal as their next door neighbor who has perfect vision.”