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Recover Lost Passwords

Posted Jan 7, 2005 by David Risley  

This is a short little tip, but could be helpful to many. I’ve had it happen several times with Internet Explorer…the browser is saving a password for you, but you actually need to know what it is, but all you see is asterisks. A trick is a password recovery utility. Such a utility is Asterisk Key, a free utility from Lostpassword.com. It will reveal the password for almost any program when hidden by asterisks. I should mention, though, that this can be a security risk on your PC, too, so use it carefully.

For info, go to http://www.lostpassword.com/asterisk.htm

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