Password recovery Help Please!

Ally

Help!

I set all my email accounts on OE and didn't make a note of the passwords ... I used different ones for all of them ... with auto log-in so I never have to type anything. Also done the same for all my IM programs and access my emails from MSN, Yahoo, ICQ etc via the IM thingy ... if that makes sense!

Anyway, We have to reformat the comp as it is acting funny and something silly about partitions wasting HD storage space (don't ask cos i don't know) and I need to recover all my passwords .... I was told that they are all stored on the comp already, but I haven't got the foggiest about where they are or how to find them, read them etc etc

Can someone help me please !!!

moneyuser

You may find Revelation v2.0 useful, which can be downloaded from the following site

http://www.snadboy.com/

Ally

Where can I find out what it actually is and does Nothing was mentioned about it on the website .... only download link?!?
Thank anyway

How safe is it to download password recover software anyway??

Does anyone know what PC file all the passwords are stored in??

gizmoleeds

I think, if this is like one I used before, then it will stop those ********'s being shown when you look at a password.

Most of the passwords you will be able to see somewhere. Eg. for OE, just go to Tools >Accounts >Propertie >Server and you will "see" the password as ********. Once you run revelation it will instead show the actual password in that box.

Tharweb

If you follow this to back up OE, you don't actually need to remember your passwords, you just import the mail account back onto your PC after reinstall.

I have used a program called 123 Password Recovery but it is only free for OS's up to WinME, you have to pay for the XP version.

Ally

Tharweb wrote:

If you follow this to back up OE, you don't actually need to remember your passwords, you just import the mail account back onto your PC after reinstall.

That is brilliant, will make the task soooo much easier than copying and pasting all the emails ..... thank you

Tharweb wrote:

I have used a program called 123 Password Recovery but it is only free for OS's up to WinME, you have to pay for the XP version.

I am trying to research getting all the IM pw's recovered/backed up now and it is doing my head in:rolleyes: OH is trying to get me to hurry up so he can re-do whatever it is he needs to .... doesn't help that he don't remember any of his pw's either .... expects me to remember them all for him :eek: cheeky bum!!

Edit: any programs available to reformat OH's

Toxteth_OGrady

Ally wrote:

Edit: any programs available to reformat OH's

There are well documented problems with OH sofware but formatting may be too drastic. The majority of bugs appear to be with female OH versions.......

Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other applications.

He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.

Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, PubNight 7.0, and Excuses 5.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before).

At installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the installation of undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.

Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming wife 2.0.
A "Don't remind me again" button
Minimize button
An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 be installed with the option to uninstall at anytime without the loss of cache and other system resources.
An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the systems hardware probe feature to be much more useful.
I myself decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many problems.

Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 1.0 first. Other users say this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of. Apparently the versions of Girlfriend have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. You think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. To make matters worse, The uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0 doesn't work very well leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system.

Another thing that sucks -- all versions of Girlfriend continually popup little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0

***** BUG WARNING ********
Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources.

*** BUG WORK-AROUNDS ***************
To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and never run any file transfer applications such as Laplink 6.0. Also, beware of similar shareware applications that have been known to carry viruses that may affect Wife 1.0.

Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UseNet provider under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can accidently be downloaded from the UseNet.

*** UPGRADE VERSION *****************
Although advertised as being Plug'n'Play, installing the Upgrade version of Wife 1.0 results in several of the better features of Girlfriend 1.0 refusing to continue working. The supposed compatibility with Fast-Car 3.6 & Ski Holiday 6.2 is also flawed, and launching these applications results in strange noises and error messages.

Wife 1.0 also appears to be totally incompatible with all previous versions of BEST MATE, and some users have reported that continued use of BEST MATE can lead to unwanted sharing of resources and I/O ports unless the System Agent is installed as a background task.

*** SUMMARY *******************************
It appears that Girlfriend 1.0 is still one of the best products on the market, especially just after installation. Though not as much fun as CASUALSHAG 63.8 for the power user, it remains relatively reliable and easy on system resources. The timeout feature of Girlfriend is the major problem, and in severe cases can force the user to upgrade to Wife 1.0 with dire consequences on system health.

:cool:

TOG

moneyuser

Ally wrote:

Where can I find out what it actually is and does Nothing was mentioned about it on the website .... only download link?!?
Thank anyway

How safe is it to download password recover software anyway??

Does anyone know what PC file all the passwords are stored in??

Ooops, should've explained, sorry

As gizmoleeds says it simply let's you see what's "behind" the *'s on passwords. When you run the program it has a little crosshair that you drag on to the password you want to reveal, it displays the password in a box in the Revelation program.

I think most windows passwords are in the *.sam file, but this is encrypted, and some are possibly in the registry. The above program however doesn't use the sam file. It uses the properties of the text box the password is displayed in. The text has two properties, Text and Value, the Value is the actual password and the Text property is what the user sees, hence the reason why you see "********" but Revelation can see "password" for example