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Originally Posted by ApK
Ah, I get you. I remember stuff like that from the NT says. Still works, eh? Sad.
In this case, I changed her pwd, so it would not apply (it can't recover previous pwds, can it?  ),
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Nope, for that you need to pull out the (government-issue) electron microscope.

Even Windows doesn't keep backups of old, deleted passwords.
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but as you say, I was not concerned about that sort of effort, I was concerned about actually giving out the password. That's just Ferris Beuller handing the Ferrari keys to parking attendant. How can anyone resist trying it. Especially since NOBODY uses totally unrelated random strong pads for everything.....
https://xkcd.com/936/
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After considerable effort and essentially forcing Lastpass on her, my mother has finally graduated from using her own name with letters changed to numbers as bleeding-edge banking-level security.