About user password

From: Samuel Shum (samuelshum@hotmail.com)
Date: 08/26/02 

From: "Samuel Shum" <samuelshum@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:11:50 +0800

Does anyone know how Windows strores its passwords on local computer? I'm
wondering if it's in MD5, if so, is there a way to create a user with this
encrypted password? Thanks.

Samuel

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