Kernel Password Unmask program is a lifesaver! It allows you to see the passwords that are configured in various Windows programs, including Firefox and Internet Explorer stored passwords.
Here is how it had saved my bacon. Our CEOs laptop had crashed and naturally, the CEO could not remember any of his email passwords. This means that when I set up his new computer, I won't be able to setup his email. For a CEO, that's a big problem. Which means that this a big problem for ME!
Kernel Password Unmask (KPU) to the rescue. I was able to restart the CEO's laptop in Safe Mode and start up Outlook and go to the configuration screen which showed email passwords but they all looked like this: *******. That is not very useful to me, so I started up KPU. With KPU running, I just dragged a cursor to the ****** password, and KPU magically displayed the real password. Phew!!!!
You can use this same trick to figure out the Wifi password, if you've put it in long ago and cannot remember it. Firefox saved passwords are also revealed easily. Many other programs also save the password but mask it with *****, but that is not a problem any more since I've discovered KPU.
If you're wondering why it was me who had to fix the CEO's laptop, the answer is that he did not trust anyone else to touch it but me.
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