CNET Editors' review
Passwords are perhaps the weakest links in the cyber-security chain; if they're complex enough to be secure, you probably won't be able to remember them. Add the fact that every other site seems to require a password, and it's easy to see why far too many people end up using one or two simple passwords that are easy to remember, and easy to crack, too. You can write your passwords down on a piece of paper that you can look for and fail to find when you need it, or you can download and install G&G's Password Cracker. It's a tiny, free, totally portable utility that can recover lost passwords from applications.
Password Cracker downloads as a compressed file but runs as soon as you click the unzipped program file. The tool's interface is a tiny dialog, about the size of the average error message, with two text fields, labeled Test and View, and four buttons: Enable, Options, About, and Help. Other than some links to the program's Web site and some of the developer's other wares, that's it. However, the button's labels describe their functions clearly enough, so we started by checking the options, which are minimal, with check boxes to recover passwords in Internet Express or all of Windows. We checked the latter, opened a browser window, and navigated to a site that required a password log-in. We clicked Enable, hovered the mouse cursor over the password field (as delineated by asterisks), and Password Cracker displayed the alphanumeric password in the View field. We repeated the process with a Windows program that requires a log-on to open, with the similar success. The always-on-top option is handy since it keeps the little dialog from getting lost in a stack of open windows.
We installed Password Cracker 3.88, the latest version, in machines running Windows XP and Windows 7. The program performed its function in XP but not in Windows 7. Since the Windows 7 update is a recent release, it may be buggy, and we can't recommend Password Cracker to Windows 7 users until it performs reliably. Other Windows users can certainly benefit from it, especially the forgetful ones.
Publisher's Description
From G&G Software:
A simple software that was created to ensure that you never worry about misplacing or forgetting passwords. Tool for restoring forgotten passwords (also in Internet Explorer). So using this application, you will no longer have to panic when you lose any of your passwords.
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1.6 starsout of 27 votes
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3.0 starsout of 2 votes
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"Email cracker that ACTUALLY works!"
Version: Password Cracker 3.91
Pros
I was worried about downloading this due to other peoples comments, but I went ahead, bought it and ran it in sandbox to be safe. First of all, the people below probably didn't buy it from the site ( http://EmailZap.yolasite.com ) and there is no install required. You get an automatic dowmload once you've paid and it runs fine with no malware at all, and no problems removing it so I can only persume the other people complaining have a pirated copy gained from a torrent or dodgy file share site because I didn't have one single problem, and the software does actually work because I recovered two of my email accounts within the space of an hour.
Cons
It can take a while depending on the complexity of the password.
Summary
Fantastic, one of the best software I've ever used.
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"This password cracker program does not work!"
Version: Password Cracker 3.91
Pros
There isn't any! It doesn't work, waste of time to download, took me too long to get this junk out of my PC!
Cons
All they are worried about is downloading spam and malware junk to your PC, this program doesn't work and doesn't have a UN-install option!
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Same message as above; All they are worried about is downloading spam and malware junk to your PC, this program doesn't work and doesn't have a UN-install option!
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