Where are my own e-mai-accounts?

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Anton

Thats a more correct subjet. Sorry for x-posting, not shure which one is
best.

I'm trying to find a few of my own adresses/accounts, not others adresses in
wab or email in dbx, after an old XP stopped working with OE6.
When Exporting them they will be iaf, but where are they before?
 
R

Ron Sommer

Email account information is stored in the Registry.
Passwords are encrypted so you can't read them.
I don't know what information you are hoping to find.
 
A

Anton

I know my password/s but cant recall exactly what some our my newer
Gmail-addresses was. With luck I'll find them in some mail .dbx or have to
guess what Gmail accepted.
Otherwise I've backed up most on a USB-stick.
 
B

Bill in Co.

Big said:
'Shure' makes record player needles. But you can be 'sure' of that.
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Are you so sure? I'm not sure if Shure is still in business anymore.
That was many moons ago (phono needles and cartridges)
 
B

Big Al

Anton said:
I know my password/s but cant recall exactly what some our my newer
Gmail-addresses was. With luck I'll find them in some mail .dbx or have to
guess what Gmail accepted.
Otherwise I've backed up most on a USB-stick.
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I stumbled onto this site. http://www.insideoe.com/ Seems to have a lot
of OE info. You might want to browse.
I can't believe others have not been in your same place and some
industrious programmer has not written a program to help you.
Keep poking around.
 
V

VanguardLH

Anton" wrote in said:
Thats a more correct subjet. Sorry for x-posting, not shure which one is
best.

I'm trying to find a few of my own adresses/accounts, not others adresses in
wab or email in dbx, after an old XP stopped working with OE6.
When Exporting them they will be iaf, but where are they before?
Click to expand...

Are you saying that you no longer remember with whom you had e-mail
accounts? If you remember with whom you had/have e-mail accounts then
you don't need .iaf files and can simply recreate those as new accounts
in OE.

You'll find all OE accounts (email, news, lookup services) defined at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Accounts

You will have to read the data values to determine if a subkey contains
information for an e-mail, news, or lookup account.

The password is encrypted so you won't be able to extract it from here.
You also cannot import it into a new instance of Windows even if you use
the same username for your account. Each accounts gets its own SID
(security identifier) and each account gets a random crypto seed. So
you'll end up importing a password that the new instance of Windows will
not decrypt correctly to get back your valid password. If you can't
remember your passwords, you'll have to contact the e-mail provider to
go through their "forgot password" procedure or ask them to reset your
password (and then change it to something you want to use).
 
V

VanguardLH

Ron Sommer" wrote in said:
The old XP installation won't boot, so how do you get to HKEY_CURRENT_USER?
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Are you asking on behalf of Anton? Or are you implying that it cannot
be done (which is wrong)?
 
A

Anton

VanguardLH said:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER?

Are you asking on behalf of Anton? Or are you implying that it cannot
be done (which is wrong)?
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I have asked that also before, can it be found without an OS?

I'm getting in that part. with a recovery-program.
 
B

Bill in Co.

Anton said:
I have asked that also before, can it be found without an OS?

I'm getting in that part. with a recovery-program.
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It's IN the registry. If you can't access the registry, you can't get it.
Hello?
 
J

Jim

Anton said:
I have asked that also before, can it be found without an OS?

I'm getting in that part. with a recovery-program.
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BartPE could find anything in the registry on a non bootable disk.
BartPE boots from a CD drive.

Another computer can also find anything in the registry on a non bootable
disk if you move the non bootable disk to a USB enclosure or to a spare slot
on the other computer.

Jim
 
A

Anton

Jim said:
BartPE could find anything in the registry on a non bootable disk.
BartPE boots from a CD drive.

Another computer can also find anything in the registry on a non bootable
disk if you move the non bootable disk to a USB enclosure or to a spare slot
on the other computer.

Jim
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Its only one bad partition, I work on all others.
 
R

Ron Sommer

VanguardLH said:
Are you asking on behalf of Anton? Or are you implying that it cannot
be done (which is wrong)?
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I know that you can import a hive into the Registry and access the
information in that hive. I have only done it one time and it has been a
while.

I asked because I couldn't tell from your reply if you knew that Anton's
drive wouldn't boot.
The location of the OE information in the Registry was not going to help
without knowing how to access the Registry.
 
R

Ron Sommer

Anton said:
Its only one bad partition, I work on all others.
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If you are booting from a different partition, then you may be able to
access the Registry on the bad partition.
 
R

Rene Brehmer

Nice to know they're still in business, even after all this time!
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They make needles for DJs, and many DJs still use vinyl (and certain bands
still release everything on vinyl as well, Pink Floyd is one). Have to find
specialty stores to actually find the vinyl and needles though.
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician

North Hill Inn
http://www.northhillinn.com
 
A

Anton

VanguardLH said:
But does that mean the partition is unreadable? Just because you can no
longer boot to it using the OS that is installed in it does not mean the
file system is unusable there. You indicated that you were retrieving
files from there. If so, you can open the ntuser.dat file that holds
your user settings in the registry that is over there.

There are only 2 real hives in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and
HKEY_USERS. All the others are pseudo-hives in that they are comprised
of duplicates of keys copied from the real hives. Only when you select
the HKLM or HKCU nodes in the tree shown in regedit.exe is the File ->
Load Hive menu active. Select the HKCU hive (the one for your current
registry) and use File -> Load Hive to navigate to your ntuser.dat file
(user registry entries) to load it into regedit.exe. The ntuser.dat
registry file is under your %userprofile% path.

When you add the user's registry .dat file in regedit using Load Hive,
it asks you to name the key. What it asks for is what name YOU want to
call that other user's hive. Be sure to name it so you recognize it.
It gets added as a subkey under the current HKCU key, so call it
something like "OLD_MACHINE_USER" to make it stand out. When you are
done extracting from that other registry hive, select that
OLD_MACHINE_USER subkey and use File -> Unload Hive to remove that
appended hive; otherwise, that old hive will remain active under regedit
during the remainder of your Windows session and you probably don't want
to be touching it anymore than you have to.
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Think I understood this one week ago, then I got other matters. Now I dont
directly, how do I get in to that?
 

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