XP DOES encrypt all previous 'User Account' data (at least ... but maybe Other areas too?)
It does so with neither Notice, nor (apparently) revelation to the Doze victim/user: that it DOES.
I guess this begs the Question (in the simplistic minds of the Redmond kiddies) -- of a person wishing to do exactly what you were meaning to do:
peruse pervious setup for any number of sane reasons: possibly even to Restore same(!)
Is that about the size of it?
(So then.. just who DOES know the PW for such encryption and W.T.F. would you go, even to enter the PW !? if you had managed to find one.)
Reason #667 to Despise Doze and all who still push this masochistic turd-blossom (which, it has been established: cannot be Polished.)
And Reason #(n+1) to appreciate this iMac even more.
{{sheesh}}