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 Quote Link to comment 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 Quote Link to comment 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Man Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 Bumpy Roads... Quote Link to comment 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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