Windows XP - Is there a way to recover a password stored in Autocomplete ??

[lizardboy]

I can't remember my password for a financial website I haven't visited in a while. The password is stored in autocomplete, but I need to do a fresh install of XP because of some other problems. Is there any way to figure out what this password is since it is obviously stored somewhere on my computer - I'm using WinXP Pro if it makes any difference.

Thanks in advance.

 

[kursplat]

can you go to the website and just change the password ?
then you could write it down.
good luck

 

[dexter333]

There is a way, it's kinda complicated but it would work. What you would need to do is set up a webserver on your computer. Copy the form page to your hard drive into your web server's directory. Then write a simple PHP script that echo's what ever is sent to it. Then add 127.0.0.1 yourfinancialdomain.com. Make the url and everything the same then goto that url. Autocomplete should pop up and then hit submit. There's a lot of details missing here though

 

[PrincessGuard]

Snadboy Revelation 2.0

As long as you can see the *'s in IE, this should reveal what the password is.