- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 04, 2006
- Total Downloads: 306,668
- Downloads last week: 1,688
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 24 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
View hidden passwords on many dialog boxes with this utility, but don't expect it to work for all Web sites as promised.
Password Spectator's interface is really a dialog box that gives instructions for using the program. It's a slightly convoluted operation. Hold the Control key and float your mouse to the password. Press the secondary mouse button to display your password in a separate window. The program worked for all Windows-based password dialogs, but failed to reveal passwords on the major e-mail Web sites we tried.
This is a freeware tool, and some users may not mind the multiple steps needed to reveal passwords. However, we have found numerous freeware applications that outperform this utility. While anyone from novice users to system administrators could use Password Spectator, you might want to spend a little extra time testing other application in this category.
Publisher's description
From REFOG :When you enter your password on most sites, you see only asterisk signs. This feature is intended to protect your passwords; but sometimes this feature becomes more of a pain, rather than help. Password Spectator is a software that lets you see the actual password behind the asterisks.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 24 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Password Spectator 3.2
"This was extremely easy to use - the editor's review is idiotic"
Pros: Hold control and click on the hidden password - this opens another window that has the password revealed. Ummm that's astoundingly simple.
Yes, I guess there are programs that only require you to hover the mouse over the hidden password to trigger the revealing, but geez, at a certain point does it really matter. To call this more complicated it to call oneself an idiot
Cons: It worked perfectly. Installed quick and easy and I have Vista SP1
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Password Spectator 3.2
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Password Spectator 3.2
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0 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Password Spectator 3.2
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Password Spectator 3.2
Pros: When you hold CTRL and click on hidden password, it is showing you un-hidden password.
Cons: If you are going to use this program, you have to install it.
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