Showing posts with label Password Recovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Password Recovery. Show all posts

August 26, 2010

Show Hidden Passwords Masked Behind Asterisks or Stars

In most of the places password field is protected and masked with asterisk marks or stars. Masking of password is good security measure but, in some cases, there may be a need to reveal and show the hidden password string or value hidden behind the asterisks. when user forgets or misplaces the password for particular website or service or software application, it’s possible to retrieve and recover the password from the saved password, if user can reveal and view the masked password hidden under the asterisks on password field on web pages or program’s user interface.

July 25, 2010

How to reset a forgoten administrator password

Forgetting the administrator password for your PC is one of the worse things that can happen to you. Recovering passwords are not that easy. You can always look for third party software solution but most of the time they are not for free. In this article I'm going to explain how you can reset your administrator password in case if you forget it. This trick will works on Windows XP. To do this you'll need a bootable windows XP CD.