Re: Password recovery

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:48:13 +1100

"Kenny S" <hotmail@coldmail.com> wrote in message
news:uSezo4E$EHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I bought a new hard disk and made it the primary, putting the old disk as
a
> secondary hard disk and reinstalled XP on the new faster drive.
> On the old XP installation I had an email account with its password, but I
> cannot remember the password!
> Is there a way to find the password from some file in the old disk? I have
> not deleted anything yet so the registry files must be there intact, but I
> have no idea where to look or how to extract the information.
>
> I only know of some programs that can reveal a password from a registry
that
> is currently running on your computer, but this is not the case here. I
dont
> want to reinstall the old
> hard disk as the primary for this...
>
> Any help would be great!
>

Here are a couple of links that might help:
http://www.lostpassword.com/
http://www.accessdata.com
This might be a good time to grab this issue by its horns and make it bullet
proof:
- Establish a file (e.g. a spreadsheet) where you record ***all passwords***
and ***all software licence numbers***.
- Back up this file to an independen medium once a week (same as your other
important files).
- Protect this file with a master password that you record in a suitable
place.

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