How to Reveal, Show, Retrieve or Recover Lost Dialup Password

Windows makes your life convenient by giving you an option for storing your passwords. In case you are working on a shared computer, which is also accessible to others, then it is not advisable to allow Windows to store the passwords.

In case you have a dialup password stored on a computer, but you are not remembering exactly and has a feature to save your dialup passwords what was it, then you can use a tiny but useful utility DialupPass from NirSoft.

NirSoft DialupPass, Useful for Dial Up Password Retrieval

This utility enumerates all Dial-Up entries on your computer and reveals their logon details: User Name, Password and Domain. It works perfectly in the following operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP, the Dialupass utility can reveal the Dial-Up passwords only if you are logged on with administrator privileges.

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The Dialupass utility is a standalone application, and it doesn’t require any installation process or additional DLLs. Just copy the dialupass.exe to any folder you want and run it. After you run it, it’ll instantly show all your Dial-Up accounts and their user/password details.

You can also select one or more Dial-Up items (by using Ctrl and Shift keys), and then save them into a readable or tab-limited text file , or copy them into the clipboard (Ctrl+C). The Dialupass utility also allows you to easily edit the logon details: user name, password and domain. You can get the editing dialog-box by double-clicking the item you want to edit.