Password Recovery Tools

NirSoft Web site provides free password recovery tools for variety of programs, including Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Dialup entries of Windows, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and more...

The following table describes the most popular password recovery utilities in this Web site:

MessenPass	Recovers the passwords of most popular Instant Messenger programs: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger provided with Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda, and GAIM.
Mail PassView	Recovers the passwords of the following email programs: Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only), Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts), IncrediMail, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Group Mail Free. Mail PassView can also recover the passwords of Web-based email accounts (HotMail, Yahoo!, Gmail), if you use the associated programs of these accounts.
IE PassView	IE PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer browser. It supports the new Internet Explorer 7.0, as well as older versions of Internet explorer, v4.0 - v6.0
Protected Storage PassView	Recovers all passwords stored inside the Protected Storage, including the AutoComplete passwords of Internet Explorer, passwords of Password-protected sites, MSN Explorer Passwords, and more...
Dialupass	Password recovery tool that reveals all passwords stored in dial-up entries. (Internet and VPN connections) As opposed to many other tools, this tool works in all versions of Windows, including Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Asterisk Logger	Recovers passwords stored behind asterisks (****) characters. You can use this tool to recover the passwords of many applications, like CuteFTP, CoffeeCup Free FTP, VNC, and more...
AsterWin IE	Reveals the passwords stored behind the asterisks in the web pages of Internet Explorer 5.0 and above. You can use it for recovering a lost web site password, if it's stored on your computer. Visual Basic source code is included.
Network Password Recovery	Recover network passwords stored by Windows XP operating system.
SniffPass Password Sniffer	capture the passwords that pass through your network adapter, and display them on the screen instantly. You can use this utility to recover lost Web/FTP/Email passwords.
PstPassword	Recovers lost password of Outlook PST file.
WirelessKeyView	WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the 'Wireless Zero Configuration' service of Windows XP and by the 'WLAN AutoConfig' service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard.
Remote Desktop PassView	Remote Desktop PassView is a small utility that reveals the password stored by Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection utility inside the .rdp files.
PocketAsterisk RemotePocketAsterisk	Reveals the password stored behind the asterisks in Pocket PC device.

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