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This is a tutorial on how you can crack your screen saver password.

Section 1.
First off you can download a password cracker to crack the screen saver's password. However there is 
no fun in that right? So since we have a lot of time on our hands we are going to have a little more 
fun. Now you should know where the screen saver password is kept in the registry. Click on "start"
then go to "run" and type "regedit" without the "s. Go under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER go to
"control panel" and click on "desktop" you should now see some data after "ScreenSave_Data".
This is encrypted text, sorry it's if you thought it was unencrypted :P. Anyways, right click on
ScreenSave_Data and click modify. A window should appear with numbers on the left side, and
numbers/letters on the right side. The stuff on the right is what we want. Now you should know 
that there are 2 characters per 1 character, like the letter a = 09. Another thing you should know
about the encryption is that it changes if the letter is in a different location. Say a is in the
first slot it would be 09, but if it's in the second slot it would be something like 2d. Now that
you know this much lets see some of it at work. If you are on your computer then right click on the
desktop and go to properties now click on the screen saver tab. You should see a checkbox that says 
"Password protected" check that box and click change. Type in the password "aaaaaaaa" which is the
letter a 8 times :). Now go into regedit and find the ScreenSave_Data. Note ( If regedit was open
when you changed the password you will need to refresh regedit by hitting the f5 key.). Okay now 
open the modify box for ScreenSave_Data. You should see 09AF375C2628E05A. If you have to count
you will see there are 16 characters which goes back to when I said there are 2 chars to 1 char.
So now you see that in the first position a = 09, second position a = AF, a = 37 a = 5C a = 26 a = 28
a = E0 and a = 5A. At this point I would say keep going through what you just did for say a-z.
Write the results to a file or write a program to convert it for you. If you really want to go ahead
and download a program that cracks the screen saver password. Another cool trick you can do is get a 
cracker that writes results to a 3 1/2 floppy A: or write your own. Burn it to a cd and put a file named 
"Autorun.inf" on the cd. Inside the autorun.inf file put the following lines.

[autorun]
open=CRACKER.EXE
icon=CRACKER.EXE

Now take this to a friends computer. Put in the floppy then then stick in the cd. (This also works
while the screen saver is running!). Once you can see it's done remove the cd and the floppy. 
Take the floppy to your computer and read the data.

-CheckMate