How to find out the password of an administrator account from a guest account on Windows 8.1

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I have a computer with WIndows 8.1. Currently, i have 2 accounts - one admin and the other one is a microsoft account without admin priveleges.

From my guest account, i would like to find out the password in plain text of my admin accouunt.

THis is purely on grounds of education and not hacking.

Is there a way to do so using the Command Prompt or something like that?

I want to find out the password and not change or reset it.

Thanks a ton, Jason

Jason Dsouza

Posted 2018-01-21T09:37:48.393

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2If you manage to do it, tell Microsoft how and collect a substantial bug bounty. – Mike Scott – 2018-01-21T09:45:52.860

Not possible. Simple as that. Even on Linux, where things are less complicated, regular users cannot read /etc/shadow to even acquire the encrypted passwords. And even if you could read it, you could only brute force. // Also, this type of question is really off-topic on Super User. – Daniel B – 2018-01-21T10:04:24.103

You can’t. Administrator accounts cannot determine the password of another account. – Ramhound – 2018-01-21T13:21:14.500

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Modern passwords are not stored in plaintext anymore. It's a security disaster waiting to happen. What you could potentially retrieve is the stored hash but those are designed not to be reverted to the original text for obvious reasons.

If you need administrator access on a Windows machine you have physical access to, any Windows PE disk will allow you to just reassign the password for any local account. One caveat of this method is that you could potentially bork encrypted files permanently.

Richard Robertson

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