How to reset VNC Password in Windows

First a word of warning this is a how to and is meant to be used for legal purposes only! I hold no responsibility for this knowledge being used for illegal purposes and totally condone it! (It means lots of stress for people like me and many sleepless nights fixing stuff so unless you want your ears burning by someone like me just use this for it is is meant for, a way to solve a sys admin's life so that they can do what they love most playing with some new and cool stuff!)

Ok to do this you will need the registry editor for this and administrative rights to access the system registry.

Open regedit on your local machine and browse to the following key:

[HKLM\Software\ORL\RealVNC\VNC4]

Find the Password Valuename. Right click on Properties, select the entire DWORD string copy it. Now click on File connect to Network Registry enter in the machine name. Browse to the same key on the target machine and replace the text on the password DWORD value with the one you copied and select ok. You will now be able to access the VNC session on the machine.

Easy huh?

Ofcourse this assumes you have admin rights on the target machine. Dont ask me how to gain admin rights on the machine in question as that is something there is enough written about on the internet and you should not be doing unless you own the machine and question and wont be breaking the many laws of the land!

Hope this has saved your day!