I have a password revealer installed that will show what the **** represent. My home computers use automatic password remembrance for non critical sites. If I ever need to find out what the password is that I have assigned to any of those sites, I can use the password revealer when the **** comes up. Other than that, I do not have a use for it, but it is available if needed. Tom Mayer Don Penlington wrote: > David wrote: >> i found thie following resource( though it sounds a bit nefarious) >> on simtel.net. It is called "Password Spyer 2k 2.0">> > > > I had a look at that. It refers to finding the passwords behind a set > of ****. > > In most cases you are simply faced with a blank in which you must type > in the password. Would these programs be any use in such cases? I > don't think one would want to purchase a program with such limited > use. I think its only purpose is to reveal passwords already "typed" > (though not visible) in the dialogue window so that you can save them > for future use. But it doesn't seem to me, without having used the > program, that it is going to help the reader who has lost his password > and is presumably faced with a blank dialogue box. > > Is my assumption correct? As there are a number of the "password > revealers" around, it would be interesting to know, as I assume they > all work on the same principal. There may be some which will search > your system for stored passwords, but I assume you'd first have to get > into Windows in order to run them. Possibly this could be done via > BartPE emergency disk. > > Don Penlington > > > > The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering our special coffee mugs and mouse pads with the PCBUILD logo... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml