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 checked the latter, opened a browser window, and navigated to a site that required a password log-in.

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. Other than some links to the program's Web site and some of the developer's other wares, that's it. 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. Password Cracker downloads as a compressed file but runs as soon as you click the unzipped program file. It's a tiny, free, totally portable utility that can recover lost passwords from applications. 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. 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. 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.

Tool for restoring forgotten passwords (also in Internet Explorer). A simple software that was created to ensure that you never worry about misplacing or forgetting passwords.

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