Quick question about User Registry

If your having a spot of bother and need a bit of a walk through, then IronGeek is the man … theres a video providing some of his thoughts here.

Nope.

http//support.microsoft.com/kb/315231

Has this been changed in a later service pack/fix?

Not at all. The OP said, "…a users password for windows is stored in their registry settings in plain text??"

From the KB article, the plain text password is stored not in the user's hive file but in the hive file for the system.

But will that be the case if there is more than one user with no automatic login?

I'll check the video out when I'm at my of as my iPod touch won't play it

Thanks for all the help people very much appreciated

From the KB article, the plain text password is stored not in the user's hive file but in the hive file for the system.

Fair point, I'd made the sloppy assumption that the hive location was less important than the fact that the password was - somewhere - in plain text (i.e. reading "their registry settings" simply as "the registry"). Thanks for the clarification.