Kon-Boot on a USB

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/7/7 Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>:
> Ok, tested a few things on my Vista 32 box:

> 1.Can't access network resources(prompted for password), but that's expected.
> 2. I Can dump the real password hashes.
> 3. EFS is not bypassed.
> 4. Could change my password, but had to use MMC because the default user accounts interface was confused.
> 5. Rebooted into normal mode, logged in with new password but still could
> not get to the EFS files.
> 6. Change password back, logged in/out and then could get to my EFS file.

That would be because the EFS couldn't be decrypted when you first
logged in so changing the password on it wasn't possible.

Robin