Saturday, January 05, 2008

 

Recover lost/forgotten passwords stored in Internet Explorer

It can happen with anyone that the passwords you use to login in to your Gmail account, Google account, Yahoo mails or youtube account etc has been forgotten. As you have left this work to be done by your Windows with "AutoComplete Passwords" but what if you want to login to your account using other system. For this you have to know your password.

Windows Autocomplete PasswordsThere is a little nifty utility called "IE Pass View" that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer browser. IE Pass View supports the very new Internet Explorer 7.0 as well as older versions like v6.0, v4.0. IE PassView doesn't require any installation process or additional DLLs. In order to start using it, just copy the executable file (iepv.exe) to any folder like, and run it. After running iepv.exe, IE PassView scans all Internet Explorer passwords in your system, and display them on the main window.

IE PassView utility can recover 3 types of passwords:

AutoComplete Passwords: When you enter a Web page that contains a form with user/password fields and a login button, Internet Explorer may ask you if you want to save the password, after pressing the login button. If you choose to save the password, the password is saved as AutoComplete password.
HTTP Authentication Passwords: Some Web sites allow the user to enter only after typing user and password in a separated dialog-box. If you choose to save the password in this login dialog-box, the password is saved as HTTP authentication password.
FTP Passwords: Simply the passwords of FTP addresses (ftp://...)

Recover lost/forgotten passwords stored in Internet Explorer
Download IE PassView v1.06 /for other languages here /IE PassView Home page

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