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Password's and ID's are generally encrypted after being set. You are unable to view account passwords and other possibly sensitive information for if someone else got a hold of that computer you would not want them to do as such.

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You can find passwords in the regristry but you have to be careful because you can really mess up your computer to where it won't work. To get to the regristry 1.Go to the start menu at the bottom 2.Click on "Run" 3. type in: regedit Like I said before be very careful because it can mess up your computer

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The actual file which contains the users' passwords differs from system-to-system. Generally, though, they are stored in a secure file. In UNIX-like systems, they are often encrypted using some type of "one-way encryption", meaning that it is extremely easy to encrypt the password but extremely difficult to decrypt it. The system authenticates the password by encrypting the value it receives as the password, and then comparing this to the stored, encrypted value. On a local system this is considered secure because only the encrypted value is stored, the file cannot be overwritten by an ordinary user, and anyone who does overwrite the password cannot use the new password to login unless they first encrypt their new password with the system's encryption scheme.

Passwords never get stored in pure plaintext, perhaps with the exception of some single-user, single-purpose systems which may not need to be very secure. This protects users from the possibility of another user sabotaging his or her account by changing the password to gain access. This is still possible but extremely unlikely, because in order to do this the saboteur would need to know what type of encryption the system uses and where the password is stored.

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windows keep's the password in the sam securityc:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM

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The passwords are encrypted and stored in the registry. This is so if someone took your computer they would not be able to find login and other sensible info.

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in windows, C:\windows\system32\config\sam

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depends which phone you have but it will nearly always be under security in settings

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In the SAM file.

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I guess you can't

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