Where is the password file in Windows all versions

Hey I'm curious to find out where windows keeps all my passwords. Stflook helped me take off the auto thing that goes on the url box yesterday for internet explorer. There was also in option to remeber my passwords, where the hell does IE put those and where does my screensaver password, my logon password and all that other good stuff get kept. I'm running 98 but am wondering if it's kept in the same place as the rest of the versions of windows. Just to let all you newbies know I'm not a hotmail hacker or whatever. Just a computer enthusiasts lol. I do realize that this might be a hacking question but it's for my sole purpose only and I do not wish harm on others and I don't really care what others do with there computers. I'm not a noisey snoop.

Let me know thanks.

For windows 9x the user password is located in the windows directory and called the same as your useraccount with the extension pwl

example: c:\windows\yourname.pwl

For Win NT4 the user pass is locked by the system so you couldn't get that file to edit. You need the file in the Repair directory of NT. You can find this file also on an Emergency Repair Disk (ESD) if there was made one.
the password file has the file extension SAM

The passwords for browsers could be stored in cookies or in the user directory.

is there away to look inside a cookie. That would be cool. What about Microsoft's ultras hidden secret files, could I get stuff from there. Anyway what about the other versions. XP, ME, 2000. Or does what you said apply to all NT machines.

Cookies are just text files, double click them to view them.
What are these ultra hidden secret files?

patience: I just checked it out on my Win2K box (a floor lower in the house) to be sure that what I say is correct.

NT4 and Win2K keep both a copy of their SAM in the repair directory. Win2K is a sort of NT5

Win2000 Example:

c:\winnt\repair\
there is a file called SAM

other usefull stuff is located in c:\winnt\security\database\

Where is the screensaver pwl keept at.

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I don't get your post? Explain it to me?

Where is the screen saver password kept. That the last I need to know.

Do you have some pc in front of you with an active screensaver lock?

Yeah how did you guess. but its not that it's the boot up I did a regit hack and now I can't log back on and I took the cancel option off. So I was going to write a program that fetches the passwords and writes them to the cd. So i might unlock it. It's my little laptop.

I'am not sure of what your mean, but when it's just the user login password from Win98 that keeps you out. No prob: get a boot disk with an OS that can read FAT32 partitions (like latest DOS versions or 'the would be DOS' from Win98) start it up. When it leaves you a dos prompt: good.

When it tries to get win98 started press F8 immediatly, (before the graphical Win logo). A menu appears: choose start DOS only in the menu.

Go to your windows directory, locate the pwl file from your account and delete the account info. To do that just delete the pwl file -> when you restart without floppy you will get a password msg from Win98 asking you to give a new password (if you delete all user pwl's all the passw's become blank) -> you're in.

--> When you don't have a boot disk, you could also create a new account by logon let's say test with blank passw. Now you can delete the pwl file from your old account from the windows explorer. Do a proper restart and log in with your old account the passw should be blank

btw... there's some other interesting files in windows 2000 that i think you should check aside from the SAM file.. coz there's also a file called "User" and i think there's also a "Security" but i dun remember their extensions, but they are both found in the repair folder where u can find the SAM file...

Indeed in Win2K you have in the REPAIR dir a SAM and other user stuff,
in the SECURITY dir you can find the logs

In my version of windows all of the passwords are kept in various Dll files. But my question is windows has to keep all the ip adresses that contacts it someware I want to know where that is and no I dont want them for hacking pourposes i just want to know.

Windows does not keep track of all the IP's you connect with

To my knowledge, windows and IE keeps your dial up passwords and site passwords (for areas requesting authentication) in c:\windows\username.pwl . The file is a list of the passwords, and it is encrypted with your windows login password as the key.

The screensaver password is in the registry, find more at this thread.

As for the IP addresses that contact you... Windows (AFAIK) does not keep a log of ones that contacted you in the past, but the netstat utilities DOES show any CURRENTLY 'on' connections. Just go to a dos box and type in 'netstat /?' for help. For instance, 'netstat -an' will show all connections and listening ports, as well as the numeric IP they may be connected to. (It does not show what program is running on which ports, though, you need third-party stuff for that.)

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Originally posted by VictorKaum
Windows does not keep track of all the IP's you connect with

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It doesn't store passwords in .dll files either