The Best Free Password Recovery Software and Tools
Asterisk Logger (now called BulletsPassView) is a asterisk revealer. A portable password recovery tool or password revealer that allows users to reveal or recover passwords hidden behind asterisks or bullets. With many applications, the typed password is not displayed on the screen, instead you might see a sequence of asterisk **** characters also known as bullets. This utility will reveal passwords stored behind asterisks or bullets.
ProduKey will allow you to easily retrieve, reveal, or recover the product key, CD Key or Serial of your Microsoft Office or Windows products. Recover lost Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office product keys. The utility is both tiny and easy to use, making it a must have tool to add to your portable USB collection.
MailPass View email password revealer and recovery tool. It allows you to reveal and recover email passwords. Use it to quickly view e-mail account information, including user names and of course, passwords.
IE PassView is a tiny, easy to use utility that enables a user to reveal any passwords that might be stored by the Internet Explorer Web Browser. This password viewer tool has the ability to reveal or view and recover saved HTTP dialog box passwords, FTP login passwords, and Auto Complete form field login passwords.
AsterWin IE; a tool that can be used to Reveal Internet Explorer Passwords. Uncover passwords that are masked or hidden behind asterisks. The utility can also help recover a lost website login password being masked behind asterisks or stars. Originally created and offered by Nirsoft, it works with Internet Explorer 5 or higher.
MessenPass is a messenger password recovery tool. A free password revealer software that can be used to recover lost instant messenger passwords.
Facebook Password Decryptor is another Free Password Recovery Tool created by SecurityXploded. It can be used to quickly Recover Facebook Account Login Passwords stored on the system the tool is run from. It works by scanning for web browsers and applications on the system that were used to login to Facebook. The tool then attempts to decrypt or recover the Facebook password for each given login.
Google Password Decryptor is a free and portable Google password recovery tool. As the name suggests, it can be used to recover lost Google account login passwords. But it can also be used to decrypt, reveal or recover passwords for Gmail, Picassa, GTalk, iGoogle, Desktop Search, and other Google based applications.
Reveal passwords behind asterisks quickly and easily by using a free password revealing tool called Asterisk Key. This portable password revealer appeared to uncover hidden passwords (show hidden passwords behind masked asterisks or stars) on password dialog boxes and on web pages in Windows during my test run.
Password Unmask enables a user to Unmask Hidden Passwords (Passwords shadowed by asterisks etc) on almost any Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP program. Use it to reveal any passwords you may have lost or forgotten. More importantly, this Portable Password revealing tool can be stored and run from a portable device such as a USB flash drive.
Mail Password Recovery is a Free Portable email password recovery tool. It allows you to recover email passwords for any POP3 account, as long as it is stored in an email program. I've personally used the tool to recover lost e-mail account passwords in Outlook Express and Windows Mail with great success.
WebPassView is a free internet web browser password recovery tool. This freeware portable lost password recovering software or utility can be used to reveal or recover lost or forgotten login usernames and passwords from all of the most popular browsers.
PasswordFox is a free Password Recovery Tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to Find and Reveal the Names and Passwords Saved or Stored in Firefox. Website, Usernames, Passwords, Fields, Realms, Password Strength, and Firefox version are displayed. The Firefox Password Information can also be exported or saved to a text file.
SniffPass is network password Sniffer created by NirSoft. A great tool to have handy for recovering lost Web, FTP, Email passwords. SniffPass captures usernames, passwords, port number remote address and more for communications that occur on your network. Supports capturing via POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP protocols. Example Usage: Start SniffPass and then go send and receive email. Usernames, passwords etc used for accessing the email accounts are displayed instantly.
Recover Passwords from Opera; OperaPassView is a Freeware Portable Opera Password Viewer created by NirSoft. As the name suggests, it can be used to View or Recover Login Passwords for Websites Stored in the Opera Web Browser. OperaPassView works by decrypting the information stored in the wand.dat file and displays the list of all Web site passwords stored within the file.
Network Password Recovery is a free portable password recovering tool that recovers network passwords stored on a computer for the current logged on user. For example, when you connect to a LAN network share, remote server or login to your .NET Passport account, Windows stores your access passwords. It enables you to retrieve those passwords.
Password Security Scanner is a Free Portable Password Testing tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to test the security of passwords stored in your web browsers, messengers, and email clients. Detailed information of every stored password such as total number of characters, number of numeric characters, number of lowercase/uppercase characters, number of repeating characters, and password strength is displayed, without revealing the actual passwords.
Access Passview is a Free Access Password Recovery Tool. It can be used to recover your access database passwords by revealing passwords of mdb files. The software supports the recovery of database passwords created with Microsoft Access or Jet Database Engines.
Reveal password with Reveal, a password unmasking tool that can be used to uncover or reveal passwords hidden behind asterisks. It works well for unmasking outlook email account passwords (reveal email password). Essentially the tool changes the password text boxes to normal text boxes, uncovering the hidden password behind the stars.
