Need Nerd Help, Please!

[Chris C]

I've just purchased my first laptop. Been busy setting up all the things one has to do to get a new computer up-and-going. While I was setting up my Outlook Express, I decided I wanted it password protected, so I entered a password. I did a few other things before trying to pull up my O.E., but when I did, it wouldn't accept the password. When it originally asked for a word, it didn't make me confirm it to verify proper spelling.............so, you guessed it, I must have misspelled the password. I've tried every way of spelling the word that I can and can't come up with a solution. I tried for two and a half hours last night with no luck.

I know there is an easy way to go through a "back door" to find the password I've chosen. Something similar happened to me a couple of years ago and a forum member (another forum) sent me a PM and gave me the solution. It worked! But I was too stupid to write it down, thinking I'd never do that again!!!!!!! (yea, right!) Any of you computer guru's (nerds) know how to do it?

[OwnerCS]

Here are some products that do that..

Look for the ones with the free trial.. I just googled on "recovering a lost password for outlook express"



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How to Recover Lost Outlook Express Mail Password

How to Recover Passwords for Outlook Express

[BruceRTL]

Originally Posted by Chris C

I've just purchased my first laptop. Been busy setting up all the things one has to do to get a new computer up-and-going. While I was setting up my Outlook Express, I decided I wanted it password protected, so I entered a password. I did a few other things before trying to pull up my O.E., but when I did, it wouldn't accept the password. When it originally asked for a word, it didn't make me confirm it to verify proper spelling.............so, you guessed it, I must have misspelled the password. I've tried every way of spelling the word that I can and can't come up with a solution. I tried for two and a half hours last night with no luck.

I know there is an easy way to go through a "back door" to find the password I've chosen. Something similar happened to me a couple of years ago and a forum member (another forum) sent me a PM and gave me the solution. It worked! But I was too stupid to write it down, thinking I'd never do that again!!!!!!! (yea, right!) Any of you computer guru's (nerds) know how to do it?

Shouldn't this be the pass word that was setup originally for your email account? I know that when I setup my dads OE, he didn't remember the password so we called his ISP (Cox Cable in this case) and they reset it to something generic like "password" or something like that. I put that into OE and it worked. Then we went to the Cox website and logged in as though I was getting web mail and changed the password. Finally, I went back in to OE and changed the password there to match what I put in the web site. Everything works fine now.

Good Luck!

[djeaux]

Why did I immediately click this link when I saw it in New Posts?

A true geek answer for this question is, "Install Thunderbird & ditch Outlook Express," I think. Heck, I run Internet Exploder in a tab inside Firefox! For that matter, I once installed cygwin so I could run the Linux version of Firefox in Windows, so I'm probably pretty hopeless...

If you do have a lost password, the tools OwnerCS linked will work. But you can probably delete something in Documents & Settings or the registry that will erase your previous mistake anyway.

[VoicesInMyHead]

Originally Posted by djeaux

A true geek answer for this question is, "Install Thunderbird & ditch Outlook Express," I think.

I wasn't going to post in this thread, since ChrisC was looking for Nerd help, and well... I'm a Geek as well. LOL!

I actually use (Win version) Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable as apps on a 160GB USB Drive. All my FF bookmarks and cookies are self contained to the USB Drive. All my email accounts can be checked from any computer I'm at with nothing left on the computer used. It's great to check my Cox, hotmail, gmail and yahoo (and other) accounts in one place, anywhere I'm at!

Anyway, to ChrisC - if you simply forgot the password to the email account, then your provider can change it. If you added a password to your *.pst file, well there are tools for that too!

[shovelhd]

If it's a POP or IMAP account that is password protected, just call your ISP and have them reset it. You can change it later on their end and yours.

[Chris C]

Originally Posted by VoicesInMyHead

I wasn't going to post in this thread, since ChrisC was looking for Nerd help, and well... I'm a Geek as well. LOL!

I actually use (Win version) Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable as apps on a 160GB USB Drive. All my FF bookmarks and cookies are self contained to the USB Drive. All my email accounts can be checked from any computer I'm at with nothing left on the computer used. It's great to check my Cox, hotmail, gmail and yahoo (and other) accounts in one place, anywhere I'm at!

Anyway, to ChrisC - if you simply forgot the password to the email account, then your provider can change it. If you added a password to your *.pst file, well there are tools for that too!

Thanks, the nirsoft did it!!

[PerryLynch]

I wish I'd seen this thread yesterday! I'd have pointed out that in this crowd, you might get better response by asking for help from Geeks, than from Nerds. After all, Geeks are more socially adept, non-pocket-protector-wearing nerds with an intense interest in solving problems...

[MoosePond]

Originally Posted by PerryLynch

I wish I'd seen this thread yesterday! I'd have pointed out that in this crowd, you might get better response by asking for help from Geeks, than from Nerds. After all, Geeks are more socially adept, non-pocket-protector-wearing nerds with an intense interest in solving problems...

and we actually have interests outside of the computing world and can conduct a conversation without ever mentioning a single thing that our grandmothers wouldn't understand!