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But the guy's explanation makes no sense. Just think about it for a moment. He posts two requests in different forums. One is for a way to turn off the Windows firewall; the other is for a way to change a Windows password by directly manipulating the registry - in other words without asking the user to enter the password first. There may not be a fire here, but there sure is plenty of smoke.

I think you're right: he's been around before. He's got a very individual way of not being able to say what he means.

Before anyone else offers help on this topic, you might want to look at the same poster's question in the IdeaLab forum: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=27129 As you can see from this thread and that one, he wants to do two things: (1) turn off the Windows firewall and (2) change the user's password by directly accessing the registry. The only possible purpose in doing this combination of things seems to be malicious - to gain full access to a user's system by turning off the firewall and changing the password. The script posted above includes a "Do you want to turn off the firewall?" question, but that clearly could be removed in the actual script. Perhaps the original poster would care to clarify what the purpose of his script might be?