Know It Or Blow It

Because I got a new laptop, I wanted to view/save all my passwords stored by IE over the years. Some of them I really don’t know anymore (AutoComplete makes you lazy), and I hate finding out in a couple of months that I forgot that one password for that one important site.

I found quite a lot of shareware tools, but of couse I wanted a freeware version (as these shareware tools probably profit from some open source code), also because it has a one-time need.

As I used IE7 (rc1), this became a bit harder, as IE7 has changed the way the passwords are store. However, with a bit of luck I found the excellent IE PassView - Internet Explorer 7.0 Password Viewer (released 2 days ago). IE7 compatible, command line export mode, all I needed!

Blogged about to be kept as a future reference

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 26th, 2006 at 17:35 and is filed under Internet.