If you created a password-protected .doc or .xls file, the password protection is inside the file. If this file was yours and you forgot your own password, too bad. If an admin put a password on a file, you have to ask the admin to give you the password.


 

While your profile may be locked from a password the files are not actually locked. Windows does not actually store passwords, it uses a destructive algorithm called MD4 to create a cryptographic hash password or the passwords (as most people...


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