Windows

Links

• Administrator and User Passwords in Windows XP

• Cloning Windows/XP
• A Troubleshooting Guide to Windows XP

Tools and commands

wmi

Windows Management Instrumentation

Third party tools

• ccleaner

Viruses and spyware

• Hitman Pro

• http://www.malwarebytes.org/
• http://www.combofix.org/
• crapcleaner

First let the scanners fetch their updates, disconnect system from network and then run malwarebytes before combofix

virus scanners

• AVG
• avira
• avast

avoid Norton :)

FAQs

change NT password

Boot a linux rescue CD containing chntpw and use that, or boot sysrescuecd and select 'ntpasss'

collect passwords

http://www.maxfreeware.com/cain-and-abel-4920-microsoft-password-recovery.html

Recovery console

Boot from CD, press R for recovery console

recovery console commands

• Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console

Problem access rights profile

(exact message???)

seems related to "prf*tmp" files on stored profile

Get hardware info

cpu-z