Windows user creation date

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Learn more. How to find the creation date of a local user account? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 9 months ago. Active 4 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 53k times. Improve this question. To add from chat: I can see the user hive in the registry creation date, but that's only based on their first login, not account creation date. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. A forensics tool probably isn't what you want, but it looks like Microsoft isn't making it easy. Improve this answer.

Evan Anderson Evan Anderson k 18 18 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Would you, perchance, have any linkage I might avail myself of to that end? Damn you markdown! Just the link to the regripper project above. I haven't used it, personally, but it looks reasonably easy to deal with. It looks like it has been included in Kali Linux now bugs. Apparently there was a book written around these tools. It looks pricey: amazon.

Should I keep guessing - this is fun. Post by superfly12 » February 23rd, , pm Thank you but it didn't help. Post by jvierra » February 23rd, , pm That is because you can't determine the creation time on a local account.

If you had EVnt log recoring of all avvoiunt changes and had saved the event logs since the machine was installed you could get it from teh event log. DAT file in the profile. There just is no sytem accessible creation time for local accounts. Any other method is pure guess work. I guess some things just can't be done. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. LordAlukard Independent Advisor. Dear Jean I am an independent advisor, and I am trying to help other users in Community using my experience with Microsoft products.

The only way to know exact creation date of that account is to contact Microsoft Account Support. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to LordAlukard's post on August 31, OK, thank you for your reply. I tried to send a support request via the link you gave but the contact form displays an error when I click on the Submit button:. We're sorry, but something went wrong on our end. Please try again later. Dear Jean This looks like a browser issue.

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