Possible bad HD, clone OS and replace?

[vdub12]

I believe IE passwords are always encrypted. You can never actually see the passwords. You just see ***** instead.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms\SPW is where IE often stores online passwords. Back up that registry key in addition to the files NTUSER.DAT and Formdata.ini found at C:\Documents And Settings\[user name]\
Test it out first before you rely on it.

I pull passwords from IE all the time using IE PassView

It works well. I have it automatically output to an HTML file that I can give to the customer.

Somewhere on this forum a month or so ago someone built a script that saved all kinds of info like this. I can't find the original thread though.

 

[RegEdit]

Obviously Microsoft wants IE passwords to be uncrackable. Security Essentials keeps blocking the download with Windows 7. Just choose to "allow" it withing Security Essentials and it'll work. Works nicely actually!

 

[Appleby]

For what it's worth I think I solved the problem. I know this thread has drifted and that's cool, I'm guilty of thread topic drift more than my fair share.

Long story short, the Nvidia Display Driver Service was causing the problem. Or that is at least how it appears. It would boot sometimes but not others, which is really strange. But once that service was disabled, the computer is back up and booting in normal mode every time. So I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!

 

[vdub12]

For what it's worth I think I solved the problem. I know this thread has drifted and that's cool, I'm guilty of thread topic drift more than my fair share.

Long story short, the Nvidia Display Driver Service was causing the problem. Or that is at least how it appears. It would boot sometimes but not others, which is really strange. But once that service was disabled, the computer is back up and booting in normal mode every time. So I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!

Can you downgrade to a driver version thats a little older?