windows password
By raviudal
@raviudal (260)
India
August 23, 2010 4:48am CST
do any one know where does windows save its password ..if yess please tell me i have to demonstrate it
2 responses
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
23 Aug 10
Hi raviudal
Windows stores its password in a file called SAM which can be found in the windows system32\config\SAM. Now the problem here is that these passwords are stored as 40 byte encoded strings and there is no known way to decode them (as far as my knowledge goes).
For an entire explanation of Administrator and Admin Password in Win XP you can refer to this page http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_passwords.htm
(It is not a referral link.)
@nadeerclt (149)
• India
23 Aug 10
You are correct Windows password on SAM(Security Account Manager) and there lot of tools available to brake windows password like tool available in Hirence CD.You jest visit Hirence websit.
