Reveal Asterisk-Hidden Passwords

Hi Fred, As a support tech at a small ISP, I often help… users [who] don’t need technical help, they just are having problems typing. I have searched and searched for a way to unhide the dial up and other Windows passwords but to no avail. I’m hoping you or one of the thousands of readers know how to unhide the password. As you know, in XP , not only are the passwords replaced with dots, but XP adds dots!…Thanks, Craig

Tools that turn the password-hiding asterisks into plain text are called "revealers." Once you know that, they’re easy to find. For example, there’s the free "123 Password Recovery" tool at http://www.webattack.com/get/123pwrecovery.shtml , or the trial/$30 to keep "iOpus Password Recovery" tool that works on  Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP ( http://www.iopus.com/password_recovery.htm ). There are many other tools available, too: http://www.google.com/search?q=reveal+password

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Fred Langa is senior editor. His LangaList Newsletter merged with Windows Secrets on Nov. 16, 2006. Prior to that, Fred was editor of Byte Magazine (1987 to 1991) and editorial director of CMP Media (1991 to 1996), overseeing Windows Magazine and others.