Restoring passwords and programs in Win 10.

Boohoo

Hello.

I had tried for over a week to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and keep all my programs, data and files but I kept getting "unable to upgrade" and I could not find out what the issue was.

I decided to clean install and that went ok and all my components in the pc were ok and no driver issues.

Before I clean installed I backed up the drive to another hdd just in case. I managed to get my favourites installed but I used Edge instead of IE.11 but now I do not know all the password in the favs folder if I go to the websites.

Is there a way I can get these of my back up copy hdd and put them onto my Windows 10, if not is there a program that can do this and even if it just gives me a printout it would be better than nothing.

The other issue is !!! all the programs I want are on the other hdd is there a way I can copy these over or will I need to download them all and reinstall. If I have to reinstall then I am not sure if I have the serial/license numbers to input to make them run.

To me Windows 10 will take a lot of getting used to but I suppose it's progress.

DoaM

If you'd been using Chrome linked to a Google account then they'd have all (probably) been backed up and available in your new installation.

I'm not sure how IE stores passwords, so I don't know if it's possible to recover them from your HDD backup. A quick Google suggests that they are stored in the registry ... so if your HDD backup is bootable (to Win 7) then you may be able to extract them.

This was the Google search I tried.

Boohoo

DoaM wrote: »

If you'd been using Chrome linked to a Google account then they'd have all (probably) been backed up and available in your new installation.

I'm not sure how IE stores passwords, so I don't know if it's possible to recover them from your HDD backup. A quick Google suggests that they are stored in the registry ... so if your HDD backup is bootable (to Win 7) then you may be able to extract them.

This was the Google search I tried.

I have the Win 7 hdd in the pc now. The pc boots to Win 10 but I am not sure if I can use it as I used the Win 7 key to upgrade and Microsoft have a record/details of the motherboard for the Windows 10 activation and I don't want to boot into Win 7 and find out that the Win 7 and Win 10 OS have the same key and it then gets blocked.

I googled a bit yesterday and it said that it was hard to get passwords from IE as they are encrypted. I found a software/app that can get these from an old hdd called IEPV but I did not have any luck as it wanted my old login password from Win 7 but I never had one set up. It did work on Win 10 for the passwords I had inputted.

I did take a Macrium Reflect image,Windows back up image and Windows data/program back and saved to a backup drive so they could be on there maybe?

Swipe

Once you get it sorted I recommend you use a reputable password manager such as Bitwarden. Looks like it might be less trouble to request a password reset to all your accounts. I'm assuming you do know the password to your email account or are logged into it via your phone?

Boohoo

Swipe wrote: »

Once you get it sorted I recommend you use a reputable password manager such as Bitwarden. Looks like it might be less trouble to request a password reset to all your accounts. I'm assuming you do know the password to your email account or are logged into it via your phone?

I will look into that after I get the passwords setup on the Win 10 o/s.

As for password resets I have over 200 so it we be a lot of requests and time.

After that I will have to try and get the old programs downloaded and set also.