NetworkPasswordDecryptor is the free tool to instantly recover the network passwords stored in the ‘Credential Store’ of Windows. Not only Windows uses it to store network authentication passwords, but also other applications such as Outlook, Windows Live Messenger, Remote Destktop, Gmail Notifier etc uses it for storing their login passwords.
NetworkPasswordDecryptor can recover following passwords on all versions of Windows starting from XP to Windows 7.
- All network authentication passwords.
- Basic/Digest authentication passwords stored by Internet Explorer
- Google login password stored by GMail Notifier
- Remote Desktop stored passwords.
- Exchange server login passwords stored by Outlook.
- Login passwords of Windows Live Messenger
To understand how NetworkPasswordDecryptor decrypts these network passwords, refer to following research article
‘Exposing the Secret of Decrypting Network Passwords’
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This does not work on windows 7 version 6.1. When you click the “start recovery” button is just doesn’t do anything.
This tool will recover only stored network passwords. If there are no stored passwords by any of the above mentioned applications, then there is nothing to show.
You can try saving the password (remember password) through any of these applications and then use this tool to recover the password.