Recover previous xp password..

[civichbca91]

Hi there, I was wondering if it is at all possible to get a previous logon password for windows xp. In other words, let's say my pass was "thispass", then i changed it to "thatpass", then i removed the password completley. Is it possible for me to recover "thispass" if I do not know what it is?

[GAHD]

nope

[civichbca91]

Thanks, that's all I needed to know. Now then, how to convince someone that I didn't delete their password to access their account, but that I accidentally downloaded a virus that deleted his password. *Thinks hard*

[GAHD]

Sorry bro, she's gonna know ;)

[alexander]

it can possibly be a posibility, if you had some extreme million dollar machinery to read off weak magnatic charges, a team of scientists and months of time...

[Southtown]

Yeah, hun. I accidentally downloaded a virus that sent your harddrive to a clean room for analysis.

[C1ay]

There is the possibility of convincing them that they suffer some psychological condition where you could take them for treatment to a hyponotist you've previously bribed to who'll try and extract this info....

[Southtown]

ROFL :D

[Boerseun]

Was the password the machine's local password, or is this machine part of a domain?

[alexander]

local most probably, B :)

 

I've actually been wondering why noone has written a virus that will use win driver for sata to lock the drive with a random password... wouldnt that bee hilarious?

 

but yeah, i've recovered quite a few passwords, as well as reset quite a few, so i would say, resset the password and say that the virus deleted her password :)