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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 14, 2007
- Total Downloads: 3,244
- Downloads last week: 11
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 4 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This free program reveals short passwords for a list of popular applications, although we found it to be light on output and user-friendliness.
Change Forgotten Password Lite has a boring interface that reveals cached passwords on your system for applications including Internet Explorer, AIM, MSN Messenger, Miranda, Outlook, and Outlook Express. You can't opt to hunt for one specific app's password, however. This software looks for installations on your machine using the entire list of applications it covers.
Unfortunately, during testing, the program only revealed the password for one of the applications, even though others were cached on our test machines. More disappointingly, the program wouldn't reveal the one successful password recovery since it was longer than five characters. Given that this download performs below average in comparison to other password recovery programs, most folks will want a more potent, configurable tool.
Publisher's description
From Excode Software :Recover and change forgotten passwords in multiple applications. Did you upgrade your computer and lose your passwords. Have you visited Web sites that require you to log in, and allow Microsoft Internet Explorer to cache those logins and passwords. Recover those forgotten passwords and see them in plain text with Change Forgotten Passwords. It will access applications's passwords and display them to you in plain text. Forgotten Passwords can recover: AOL Instant Messenger passwords, Becky! Mail passwords, Cached Windows 95, 98 and Me passwords, Dial-Up passwords, E-Type Dialer passwords, Far Manager passwords, ICQ passwords, Internet Explorer (Auto-Complete and Protected Sites), Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express passwords, Miranda passwords, MSN Messenger passwords, PC Remote passwords, RAS passwords, &RO passwords, Shared Folders passwords, Trillian passwords, VPN passwords, Ysm Icq passwords.
Version 2.2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 2.2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 1.0 stars out of 4 votes
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Version: Change Forgotten Password Lite 2.2
"does not work a come-on for the pro-version upgrade"
Cons: Found only one password and said password was too long and should upgrade to PRO VERSION. Nothing said about another version in description. Did not find any of the other described passwords. My opinion this is a sales gimmick download and as such a waste of my time.
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Version: Change Forgotten Password Lite 2.2
"It says it's free but it's not free."
Pros: Small and fast. Very easy to use.
Cons: Lite version does nothing. You have to pay to do anything useful.
Summary: Unless you pay for the upgrade to the Pro version, this program does nothing. The free Lite version did not recover any of the passwords on my system. A free trial or lite version should actually be able to do something but this does nothing. If the... read more >>
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Version: Change Forgotten Password Lite 2.2
Pros: It is free
Cons: It provided no value. It found one 8-character password, but it said it was too long.
Summary: Don't waste your time.
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Version: Change Forgotten Password Lite 2.2
Pros: No value in downloading. I was looking to recover a password stored in Internet Explorer.
Cons: It produced a long list of the types of passwords that it would not find. It found one 4 character outlook express password,
Summary: Program has no value.
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