How to Recover your lost Gmail password
Here's some information about how to use these 2 utilities to recover your lost Gmail password:
- Mail PassView:
If you use a popular email software to receive and send messages on your
Gmail account, like Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, or
Thunderbird -
You can use this utility to recover your Gmail password, assuming that
you allowed your email software to save the password.
In order to use this utility to recover your password, download Mail PassView from directly from this link.
After you download it, open the zip file and run the mailpv.exe executable. Be aware that because this utility can extract password from your system, your Antivirus software may display an alert and even block you from running this .exe file. After running Mail PassView, the main window displays the details of all email accounts found in your system. In order to find the password of your Gmail account, you should locate the record where the value of the server column is pop.gmail.com or imap.gmail.com
If you located the correct gmail record, you should see the Gmail password that you need under the Password column, as demonstrated in the following sample screenshot:
- WebBrowserPassView:
If you use a Web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, or Google Chrome) to login into your Gmail account,
This utility can help you to recover your lost Gmail password, assuming that you chose to remember this password.
In order to use this utility to recover your password, you can download it directly from this link.
After you download it, open the zip file and run the WebBrowserPassView.exe executable. Be aware that because this utility can extract password from your system, your Antivirus software may display an alert and even block you from running this .exe file. After running WebBrowserPassView, the main window displays the list of all passwords stored by your Web browsers. In order to find the password of your Gmail account, you should locate the record where the URL column is https://www.google.com/accounts/servicelogin
If you located the correct record, you should see the Gmail password that you need under the password column, as demonstrated in the following sample screenshot:
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