NTUSER.DAT Forensics Analysis 2025

Cyber Triage guide to the per-user NTUSER.DAT registry hive.

Covers what NTUSER.DAT stores (recent documents, typed paths, run keys, UserAssist and more), how to extract it and which keys matter in investigations.

Why it's useful

One of the richest per-user artifacts on a Windows machine.

Category: DFIR
Pricing: Free
Tags: dfir, windows, registry, artifacts
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