Back in the XP days we'd perform a manual system restore by booting to a "live" OS and replacing the registry hives with backups that were generated previously.
I thought that this had gone extinct with the advent of the newer OS's until one of the techs at work tried it on a Win8 system yesterday.
The system had a doskey exploit that put a password on the screen before the system even reached the login.
We used a live CD, renamed 5 of the hives to .bak and then picked copies from a backup dated from 3 October
And, viola!, it booted to the desktop!
I'll be posting more details (and will also add it to my website) as soon as I get a bit of time! :0)
Just wanted to post here so that others would know about it
I thought that this had gone extinct with the advent of the newer OS's until one of the techs at work tried it on a Win8 system yesterday.
The system had a doskey exploit that put a password on the screen before the system even reached the login.
We used a live CD, renamed 5 of the hives to .bak and then picked copies from a backup dated from 3 October
And, viola!, it booted to the desktop!
I'll be posting more details (and will also add it to my website) as soon as I get a bit of time! :0)
Just wanted to post here so that others would know about it
