V-Man Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Hey guys, It's been a while since I last posted. I now have a somewhat odd question but I really need a deffiniate answer. I have recently changed my windows PW (and being a computer nerd, obviously did not create a rescue disc) and have since forgotten it. I have the ntuser.dat file and the whole registry from a month ago on CD. How do I go about finding my old PW? Im pretty sure that its encrypted as a binary string of characters somewhere in the registry, but am totally at a loss as to where to look. Anyone know how to go about doing this? -Pat Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/69718-winxp-pass-word-registry-recovery/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfmason Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 This is one of the man reasons that i don't like windows but here is a answer http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305 Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/69718-winxp-pass-word-registry-recovery/#findComment-350331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Man Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 Not quite what im looking for. I need a way to retrieve a lost password from a backup of the registry/ntuser.dat files. Is there a way to do this? ..I'm pretty sure there is... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/69718-winxp-pass-word-registry-recovery/#findComment-350601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Man Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 Bumpy Roads... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/69718-winxp-pass-word-registry-recovery/#findComment-358754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Try Ophcrack (http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/). It uses rainbow tables to crack the password. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/69718-winxp-pass-word-registry-recovery/#findComment-359048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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