Recover Files Protected By Windows XP

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A step-by-step tutorial on how to recover files locked in a user's account that has been made private. With this method you can either spy on someone else's account or recover your own if lost to some malfunction. This will also work if you have a fresh install of Windows XP on another drive and still have your previous user account intact, but locked.

  1. By: thecomputerdude
  2. Categories How To, Science & Tech
  3. Views 16,390
  4. Added :30-May-07
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  • does this still work for Windows XP SP2

    I tried open restricted files on an external folder that I created and had the misfortune of rebuilding my OS.

    By foxytran 1265545504
    • Yes

      It will work on every system up to Windows 7 (Although Vista and 7 are a bit more tricky due to permissions limiting interactive logons)

      By thecomputerdude 1265546005
  • 2 yrs ago

    Im trying to get this done but the second command window wont pop up. Any ideas?

    By mortalplague 1254264931
    • Admin permissions

      Are you running as admin? And is this XP or Vista?

      By thecomputerdude 1254267488
    • XP--

      This is Xp and im admin. When the cmd window pops up I write it all up it adds the job but no second window pops up...

      By mortalplague 1254267917
    • Time

      TIME is in 24 hour time. Like, 3:00PM would be 1500, and 4:46PM would be 1646. For something like 7:00AM, it is 0700.

      By thecomputerdude 1254325870
    • ...

      I got it to work, but im trying to do it again and it says schedule service must be running to use the at command. Sorry for this lol, but im very thankful for your help.

      By mortalplague 1254361212
    • Scheduler

      Right-click on My Computer, Go to Manage, find Services on the left side tree, and scroll down that list until you find the Scheduler Service. Right click on that one, and hit "Start"

      By thecomputerdude 1254371271
  • Amazing JOB from You!!!

    It was amazing when i followed your steps..I have recovered my Cousins Laptop hard disk data, from which he has forgot his password! hats off for you! Thank you very much!!!!!!!!

    By thayax 1222742016
  • Brilliant

    My brother's computer wouldnt boot into windows xp and he protected his user directory. All of his school work was there and it looked like there was no way of accessing the user directory. This video gave me what i needed to ACCESS THE PROTECTED CONTENT. It truly works and I was able to copy all of his files out of the user directory into a common one, reboot, then access all the content in the common directory. You sir, rule...

    By tjpinet 1195794217
    • Appreciate it!

      Glad it worked out for you

      By thecomputerdude 1195827878
  • Falling again

    LOL

    By thecomputerdude 1193422451
  • By now..

    The job ID is 18..

    By Nagual 1189398244
    • Ah

      Go into Command Prompt and type "at /delete" to clear the schedule. You entered a schedule time that was actually 23 or so hours ahead of you accidently lol.

      You can also do "at help" to see what the "at" command can do.

      By thecomputerdude 1189433419
    • Work related

      How detectable / traceable is this on a networked comp? I used it today to go online under the system user name. If it is detectable / traceable, is there any way to erase the history and or make it less detectable?

      By Nagual 1189573311
    • Detectable?

      It's virtually undetectable history-wise, unless your work has access monitoring and logs the name of the user on the network. Like as not though they simply log the connections to and from your computer.
      On your computer though, there's no history of what you've done as far as the system login goes, unless you put a job with a schedule time 23 hours ahead of yourself lol. Internet history will still need to be cleared, I believe the System history goes in under your history- check it to make sure.

      By thecomputerdude 1189600679
  • Nada...

    I've restarted, changed the path, restored the comp before I did this whole procedure, tried changing the time to 5 minutes ahead of time- Nothing seems to be working.

    By Nagual 1189398184
  • Success once..

    I successfully completed the first command on DOS, logged into the system user name and logged out. Tried it a second time, but it won't let me open another command program... Any advice?

    By Nagual 1189382887
    • DOS Prompt Solution

      Restart the computer and see if you can open the CMD program. It could be that the command.exe is still active in memory and it won't let you open another instance.

      By thecomputerdude 1189393085
  • Success once..

    I successfully completed the first command on DOS, logged into the system user name and logged out. Tried it a second time, but it won't let me open another command program... Any advice?

    By Nagual 1189382885
  • Oh no...

    My precious ratings are falling....needs upped ratings....lol

    By thecomputerdude 1183294514
  • hmmm

    No more comments? Nobody likes it? It's sure got more views than any other video I've released.

    By thecomputerdude 1182281787
  • no man..

    it's cool...but when i write command at .... i get message acess denied..any other method? 5 stars....

    By haris pekar 1179356125
    • Which command?

      The "At Time /interactive" one requires admin access. Unfortunately, users cannot rebel against their admins with this trick, unless the admin is a dork and has enabled the user to have access to the functions.

      By thecomputerdude 1179359209
  • Video Quality

    Sorry about that. The conversion process must have eaten some of the quality, I used to be able to read the filenames. I will try to upload another one and see if Meta will replace this one.

    By thecomputerdude 1179278963
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