get my passwords

[keepout]

I know the program exists, I've used it.
There's a program you can run on your machine and it'll create a list of all the passwords on your machine.
I've used it but no longer can find it.
anyone have a clue what it's name is ?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I know the program exists, I've used it.
There's a program you can run on your machine and it'll create a
list of all the passwords on your machine.
I've used it but no longer can find it.
anyone have a clue what it's name is ?

There is no such beast - and you did not get specific enough.

Do you want all username/passwords for Windows itself?
Do you want all passwords stored in Outlook Express? Outlook? Word?
Excel? Etc?
What about stored for websites and network places?
Third party applications?

 

[keepout]

There is no such beast - and you did not get specific enough.

Actually there is and I've used it. Just couldn't see any need for it, till now.
For some reason my newsgroup polling died with would not authenticate.
switched to my other ISP news group and went thru fine. Also 2 other newsgroups no troubles. Went on for 3 days with BellSouth telling me it'll be fixed soon. Not even looking to see if there was a problem.
ie: Feb. 25 my NG: poll works, Feb. 26 - mar 3 it failed.
Can't read the passwords in my programs. For some stupid reason, They're all blacked out with the wrong number of x's
so did some experimentation and grabbed the NG's thru another program that I only use after seeing what's in the NG. Huh ? No problem. NG now working ? NO. Somehow the program ate my password in my normal email / NGprogram.

What I think it did was read every file on my machine that stores the passwords, and then created a text file of them. For my purposes it wouldbe great. [now]. Just had no need to know what I already knew.
Would have been handy to know just what password had been inserted in my email program to cause it to fail to authenticate.

Do you want all username/passwords for Windows itself?
Do you want all passwords stored in Outlook Express? Outlook? Word?
Excel? Etc?
What about stored for websites and network places?
Third party applications?

Sure why not. A password's a password. Hmm. Most of my passwords are already listed in my 'keeping' list of emails. Just need to add these to that list..

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I know the program exists, I've used it.
There's a program you can run on your machine and it'll create a
list of all the passwords on your machine.
I've used it but no longer can find it.
anyone have a clue what it's name is ?

There is no such beast - and you did not get specific enough.

Actually there is and I've used it. Just couldn't see any need for
it, till now.

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There isn't because it is impossible to have a single application that
covers every program that could have a password and have hacked every way
they could have it encoded/hidden.

Perhaps you just need one to show you what is behind the 'asterisks' or one
that will hack the user passwords on a machine or one that exposes Office
passwords or one that cracks WinZIP passwords or one that does RAR passwords
or.... But there is not one all-emcopassing applications that cracks all
passwords and defitely not in the method you seem to believe exists.

If there was - there would be no need for passwords - they would be
annoyances.

What I think it did was read every file on my machine that stores
the passwords, and then created a text file of them.

<snipped>

*grin*
Again - no. There is not necessarily a file that stores your passwords - or
a certain location and every application you have likely has a different
storage location/method and encryption algorythm. There is no single
application that covers all the methods.

For my purposes it would be great. [now].
Just had no need to know what I already knew.
Would have been handy to know just what password had
been inserted in my email program to cause it to fail to authenticate.

<snipped>

So you do need to see what is under the 'asterisks'...

Try here:
http://www.nirsoft.net/password_recovery_tools.html

Asterisk Logger may do what you want.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Can't read the passwords in my programs. For some stupid reason,
They're all blacked out with the wrong number of x's

It's not a stupid reason, it's standard, and it's good. They are blacked out
so someone looking over your shoulder can't read them. They have the wrong
number of characters so someone looking over your shoulder doesn't even get
a head start on guessing by knowing how long the password is.

 

[keepout]

<snipped>

There isn't because it is impossible to have a single application that
covers every program that could have a password and have hacked every way
they could have it encoded/hidden.

Then the one I used would have done the trick. It spouted out a page of passwords.

Since then I found something that looks at the x's and gives me the password.
But it's just a 1 shot program vs the one that gave me a list of my passwords.

It filled the bill for this one program. Where I need to enter name and password to login to email and news.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
IE PassView (NirSoft)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/internet_explorer_password.html will find most
login information related to websites, newsservers, (maybe) your ISP login,
etc.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

<keepout[at]yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
I know the program exists, I've used it.
There's a program you can run on your machine and it'll create a list of all
the passwords on your machine.
I've used it but no longer can find it.
anyone have a clue what it's name is ?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I know the program exists, I've used it.
There's a program you can run on your machine and it'll create a
list of all the passwords on your machine.
I've used it but no longer can find it.
anyone have a clue what it's name is ?

There is no such beast - and you did not get specific enough.

Actually there is and I've used it. Just couldn't see any need for
it, till now.
<snipped>

There isn't because it is impossible to have a single application
that covers every program that could have a password and have
hacked every way they could have it encoded/hidden.

So you do need to see what is under the 'asterisks'...

Try here:
http://www.nirsoft.net/password_recovery_tools.html

<snipped>

Then the one I used would have done the trick. It spouted out a
page of passwords.

<snipped>

Let me try to be a bit more blunt...

You are mistaken or remembering Windows 3.11 days or something.

There is no such program - you are remembering incorrectly - it does not
exist for Windows XP and all the possible applications and such and
different ways of storing password that could exist on/in a Windows XP
compatible application.

There is no application that, per your description, "... a program you can
run on your machine and it'll create a list of all the passwords on your
machine ...". Perhaps if you tone down "... all the passwords ..." to
something more reasonable - you might be correct.

keepout wrote:

Since then I found something that looks at the x's and gives me the
password.
But it's just a 1 shot program vs the one that gave me a list of my
passwords.

It filled the bill for this one program. Where I need to enter name
and password to login to email and news.

<snipped>

Like the list of password programs on the page I linked above?
In case you (or anyone else reviewing this posts in the years to come)
missed it:
http://www.nirsoft.net/password_recovery_tools.html