LM hashes

[soulseer]

Hello everyone,

I have searched what seems like everywhere for what seems like an eternity for a simple How-To question. My question is: How can I ENABLE LM hashes on my Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit OS? I wish to enable this feature for personal use on MY computer but it is disabled by default on the new Windows Vista OS, NTLMv2 hashing is enabled instead, and I cannot figgure out how to enable LM no matter how much i search.

If anyone has a clear and/or simple explanation of how to enable LM hashes it would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Soul-Seer

 

[soulseer]

Ok i have figgured out how to enable LM hashing on windows vista home premium. It is as simple as making two changes to values in the registry:

-Type "run" into the start search and then type "regedit" into the run box.
-Open the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\control\LSA
-Double click "LmCompatabilityLevel" and enter a value of "0"
-Double click "NoLmHash" and enter a value of "0"
-Restart computer and LM hashes will be stored on next password change.

**Note** don't include quotation marks when typing in values.

 

[nimbus123]

This is so great, THANK you. Questions: i) disabling would be a simple matter of reassigning a value of 1, right? ii) do you imagine there would be any special issues of vulnerability to one's machine in doing this?

Thanks for making my life easier!

nimbus123

 

[tlarkin]

You are trying to make your vista box network with older or third party OSes correct? The NTLMv2 which comes packaged with SMB2 is a security layer which makes vista not so compatible on the network.

Another MS FTW!