Security Threats to Microsoft Windows XP

Privacy is the birth-right of a computer user, and it should not be a privilege to only a chosen few. This paper presents security loopholes in Windows XP User Management System and dissection of the SAM file used for storing the passwords using hexa editor followed by an experiment of invading in to some account of Windows XP without knowing the passwords and retrieving back the users profile and desktop features and provide some guidelines for securing the user Security features.