How to Recover IE Stored Username Passwords for Free

Password Storage in Browsers

Today’s Internet Browsers are an intelligent lot. For easy web surfing and convenience they store a lot of your private data hidden in their files. It is true that this adds to some serious privacy concern by many privacy experts, but it is also true that this feature makes the use of Internet Browsers a lot more convenient.

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Almost all modern browsers have the capabilities of giving you an option to store your username and passwords, whenever you fill them in an online web form. This AutoComplete features allows you to do away with the hassles of remembering those difficult passwords, which you often tend to forget.

But, there are often situations when you forget the username and password of a website, but you still remember that you have it stored in your browser. Although you can access it, but what if you want to know what exactly was the username and password.

IE PassView – Free Tool to Recover IE Stored Username Passwords

IE PassView is a free utility, which allows you to recover your Stored Username and Passwords, with a few simple clicks. It works only with Internet Explorer, both IE7 as well as IE8.

As stated on their website, IE PassView utility can recover 3 types of passwords:

1. AutoComplete Passwords: When you enter a Web page that contains a form with user/password fields and a login button, Internet Explorer may ask you if you want to save the password, after pressing the login button. If you choose to save the password, the password is saved as AutoComplete password.
   Be aware that some Web sites (like Yahoo login page) deliberately disable the AutoComplete feature, in order to avoid password stealing by other users.
2. HTTP Authentication Passwords: Some Web sites allow the user to enter only after typing user and password in a separated dialog-box. If you choose to save the password in this login dialog-box, the password is saved as HTTP authentication password.
3. FTP Passwords: Simply the passwords of FTP addresses (ftp://…)

Caution: The passwords are encrypted with the URL of the Web sites that asked for the passwords, and thus they can only be recovered if the URLs are stored in the history file. If you clear the history file, IE PassView won’t be able to recover the passwords until you visit again the Web sites that asked for the passwords. Alternatively, you can add a list of URLs of Web sites that requires user name/password into the Web sites file.

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