Great program for those times when you can not remember your saved password. It’s on your screen taunting you all asterisky star like… Staring up at you laughing to itself. Well fret no longer Admin, check out this windows only app to free your password from them stars! It worked for the three web pages i tried it on. Let us know how it worked out for you.
And in case you haven’t guessed… It’s free!
From the authors site:
From the authors site:
Asterisk Key shows passwords hidden under asterisks. Click here to download this free utility.
Features :
Uncovers hidden passwords on password dialog boxes and web pages
State of the art password
recovery engine – all passwords are recovered instantly
Multilingual passwords are supported
Full install/uninstall support
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It’s important to note that it only works with some Windows applications. For example, it works great with Internet Explorer, but doesn’t seem to work with Mozilla Firefox.
Coincidentally, I posted the same app on my blog a month back :)
Thanks Phil and it looks like you got some good information on your site. We would love for you to participate here @ askTheAdmin.
Always looking for a few good Admins to post problems and help with answers.
Give us some perspective from your side of the pond?
Cheers!
ty!
Good1
does it really work? how is it for instant messenger?
Sure Karl, why not!
I just posted something on increasing laptop battery life if you’re interested in that at all?
very interested. i am going to check it out. check back later in the day.
thanks!
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easy to make it ‘portable’, just run the installer through Universal Extractor. enjoy!.
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract
Awesome Tip Molly!
Any interest in posting tips for us? We would love a female admin’s perspective!
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