You can be organized, on time, and buttoned up with Outlook — your life organizer.
Once you’ve set up your account in Mail for Windows 10, you don’t have to enter your password every time you open the app. If the password for your email account expires or you change it for security purposes, you may need to update your password in the Mail app.
Update a password
If you’ve changed your password with your email provider, you can update the stored password in Mail for Windows 10.
Choose Settings > Manage Accounts, and then choose the account you need to update.
If you selected an Outlook.com account, you can change or update your password by choosing Change account settings. Mail for Windows 10 will take you to a webpage for your account where you can change your password. After you update the password on the webpage, Mail for Windows 10 will receive that change automatically.
For all other accounts, after you update your password with your email provider, you can update the password in the Account Settings dialog box and then choose Save.
If your password has expired or you think your account has been compromised, you’ll need to change your password with your email service provider—€for example, Gmail or iCloud—€before you update the password in the Account Settings dialog box.
If Mail for Windows 10 won’t accept your new password, make sure Caps Lock is turned off, and then reenter your password.
I forgot my email password. What can I do?
People write to me with all sorts of account login problems and ‘I forgot the email password‘ is the most common. As you know, it’s not possible to access the email account without the correct login details. But we are all human and, except for the lucky few, most of us are liable to forget important details.
How does this happen? I’ve nailed it down to two things. The first is too much of reliance on memory cells and, the second, uninhibited use of the “Remember Me” or equivalent feature found just below the username and password fields on most sign in forms.
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Fortunately, all popular services provide subscribers with a way to regain control of the account in the event they forgot the email password. Generally, you would be able to get the login information by having it sent to an alternate email or can reset the password by answering one or two security questions. Let us explore these options.
I forgot my email account password – how can I get it back?
Before we move forward, I would like you to check out two things – these should iron out the email password problem for 50% of users. Firstly, are you using the correct username and password combination? Remember, both of these have to be correct. Secondly, since the password is case-sensitive, make sure the Caps Lock and the Num Lk (number lock) keys are turned off; these are toggle switches. Most, if not all, keyboards have a small indicator light for these two.
Based on the innumerable emails I get on this issue, I can segregate the ‘forgot email password’ problem into the following categories – solutions and tips are provided for each.
Lost the password of a new email account If it’s a brand new email account on a service such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo, just forget about it – it will be closed by the service in sometime. Just get a new email address and, this time, remember to make a good password and take care of it well to prevent account hacking – read that article for more information. For an ISP email account, I suggest you contact the company support, identify yourself and get the login details.
Email password not working I cite the two points I mentioned earlier on. The Caps Lock and Num Lock keys should be turned off and double check the username for which you are employing the password.
Had email account for a very long time but logged out accidently. Now I don’t recall the password Such an issue crops up when you’ve been using the “Remember Me” (or equivalent) feature found on most email sign in forms. I have always thought of this double edged sword. Yes, it saves time when accessing the account but since you don’t need to enter the login details each time, you are likely to forget the email password. You can try resetting the password by either answering the security questions or having it sent to the alternate email address you provided at the time of sign up.
I know it’s the correct password – someone’s hacked into your account If you are 100% sure that it’s the correct password and still cannot access your account, there can be two scenarios. The service is either down (offline) which is unlikely but possible or someone has hacked into the account. How did you account get hacked? Probable causes – sharing the password with others, you’ve been a victim of a phishing attack, the password wasn’t strong enough etc. The last two are what I would put my money on. Too many people just don’t know how to make a password. They put their spouse name or something very obvious which can be guessed in a few tries. And phishing is certainly a bane of the internet. I advice never clicking on any link that was sent in an email message.
Companies offer different ways through which you can reset the information when you’ve forgotten the email account password. Having the login details or the reset instructions sent to an alternate email address that was provided at the time of creating the account is probably the easiest option. But it doesn’t work for everyone. Many subscribers didn’t put in an alternate email address on sign up because they were creating their first email account. Also, the alternate email address may not be functional anymore. In either case, you can still get the control of your account if you’ve lost the email password by answering the security questions. Yahoo!Mail, for instance, ensures that subscribers are kept abreast of the information they entered through regular prompts.
But what if you didn’t use an alternate email address and don’t recall the answers to the security questions? Again, the popular email services understand that some users may find themselves in this mess. The only solution is to contact the support staff. However, please remember that this is a thorny path. If it were so easy, anyone could get to your account username and password, right?
Refer the following links for further details:
Reset a forgotten Microsoft account password
We recommend following the steps in this order to assist you with resetting your Microsoft account and if that isn’t successful, how to try and recover your account.
Tip: The steps below are for forgotten passwords. If you want to make changes to a known Microsoft account password, see Change your Microsoft account password instead.
Reset your password
If the password you typed is incorrect, you’ll see a message that says:
Your account or password is incorrect. If you don’t remember your password, reset it now.
We recommend following the steps below to resolve your password issues. If you already tried this but it didn’t work, move ahead to Step 2: If you can’t reset your password.
1. Select Forgot password?
If the Enter password window is still open select Forgot password?
(Or go directly to Reset password and enter the username name again for the account you’re trying to reset and select Next).
2. Verify your identity
For your protection, Microsoft must verify your identity before you can proceed with resetting your password.
How to verify your identity depends if you previously added security info to your account and if you can still access them. Select from the two options below.
Option 1: You received and can select a verification option
Select which option to send the verification code to.
Option 2: No verification options are given or you can no longer access any of the options
If you don’t see an option for where to send a code or you no longer have access to any of the verification options shown, you won’t be able to reset your password this way.
Try the solutions listed in Step 2: If you can’t reset your password. If those don’t work either, or if you selected I can’t receive a code from this verification page, you’ll begin the account recovery process.
Go directly to Step 3: Help with the Microsoft account recovery form for tips to complete that process.
3. Get a verification code
Depending on the contact method you chose, retype the first part of the email address or the last four digits of the phone number hinted at in the previous window.
Select Get code.
Microsoft will send a verification code to the email or phone number you selected.
Go to the recovery phone or email for where you expect to receive the code.
Tip: If you didn’t receive a message, check your junk folder or if you selected the phone option, make sure your phone has service and can receive texts, and verify your phone isn’t set up to block texts from unknown numbers.
4. Enter code and reset password
Paste or type the code you received and select Next.
Type your new password and select Next.
You successfully reset your password
If you successfully reset your password, now is a good time to set a reminder to verify your security contact info, or make changes to it. See Security best practices for more info.
You weren’t able to reset your password.
If you couldn’t reset your password this way, move ahead to:
Mail Password Decryptor 2021 : FREE all-in-one Tool to Recover Lost or Forgotten Email Password from Outlook, Opera Mail, Gmail, TheBat, Thunderbird etc
Mail Password Decryptor
Contents
About
Features
Installation & Uninstallation
How to Use?
Screenshots
Release History
Download
About
Mail Password Decryptor is the FREE software to instantly recover your forgotten email account passwords from popular email clients and other desktop applications.
You can recover your forgotten password for email accounts like Gmail , Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or Windows Live Mail from email applications such as Microsoft Outlook , Thunderbird, IncrediMail, GTalk & many more.
Mail Password Decryptor automatically crawls through each of these applications and instantly recovers all of the stored mail account passwords.
It is very handy tool not only for for Penetration testers but also for Forensic investigators.
Note: Mail Password Decryptor is not hacking or cracking tool as it can only help you to recover your own lost email password that is previously stored in your system.
Mail Password Decryptor works on both 32-bit & 64-bit platforms from Windows XP to new Windows 10
Features
Current version support password recovery from following Popular email clients & desktop apps
Microsoft Outlook (2002/XP/2003/2007/2010/2013/2016/2019)
Thunderbird
Windows Mail
Windows Live Mail
Foxmail
Opera Mail
FossaMail
The Bat!
Mailbird
eM Client
IncrediMail
Postbox
Claws Mail
Becky!
Poco Mail
Mail Commander
Google Talk
GMail Notifier
PalTalk Messenger
Pidgin Messenger
Miranda Messenger
Windows Live Messenger
Windows Credential Manager
Here are the unique features
Automatically detect and decrypt stored encrypted passwords from popular email clients & desktop applications.
Password Recovery from latest versions of supported applications.
Automatically discovers all supported Applications and recovers all the stored passwords.
Save the recovered password list to HTML/XML/Text/CSV file
Easier and faster to use with its enhanced user friendly GUI interface.
Support for local Installation and uninstallation of the software.
to securely store the login account passwords. Not only Windows uses it to store network authentication passwords, but also other applications such as Outlook , Remote Desktop , GMail Notifier etc uses the same mechanism for storing their login passwords.
To know how MSN/Windows Live Messenger stores these passwords and how MailPasswordDecryptor decrypts it automatically, refer to the research article filled with complete code example ‘Exposing the Password Secrets of MSN/Windows Live Messenger’
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Installation & Uninstallation
It comes with simple Instaler that helps you to install it locally on your system for regular usage. It has intuitive setup wizard which guides you through series of steps in completion of installation.
At any point of time, you can uninstall the product using the Uninstaller located at following location (by default)
Mail Password Decryptor is easy to use with its simple GUI interface.
Here are the brief usage details
Launch Mail Password Decryptor on your system
Next click on ‘Start Recovery’ button and all stored Mail account passwords from various applications will be recovered & displayed as shown in screenshot 1 below.
Finally you can save all recovered password list to HTML/XML/Text/CSV file by clicking on ‘Export’ button and then select the type of file from the drop down box of ‘Save File Dialog’.
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Here are some of the examples
//Writes recovered password to text file in current directory MailPasswordDecryptor.exe output.txt
//Writes recovered password to HTML file in current directory MailPasswordDecryptor.exe output.html
//Writes recovered password to XML file in current directory MailPasswordDecryptor.exe output.xml
//Writes recovered password to TEXT file MailPasswordDecryptor.exe «c:\my test\passlist»
It automatically detects the mode (HTML/XML/Text) by using the extension of the specified file (html/xml/txt). By default (or if no extension is specified) it uses the TEXT mode. For more examples refer to Screenshot 2 below.
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Screenshots
Screenshot 1:Mail Password Decryptor is showing the recovered Mail account passwords for popular applications.
Release History
Version 11.0 : 10th Dec 2020
New 2021 edition supporting email password recovery from 20+ mail clients. Recover from new apps including Windows Mail, FossaMail, Becky!, Poco Mail, Mail Commander etc.
Version 10.0 : 19th Jul 2020
Mega 2020 release to recover mail passwords from latest version of Outlook, Mailbird, Thunderbrid, Opera Mail, IncrediMail, Foxmail, The Bat!, Miranda, Paltalk etc
Version 9.5 : 17th Feb 2019
Improved windows Live Mail password recovery from windows credential manager. Also fixed false antivirus alerts.
Version 9.0 : 28th Jan 2019
Mega 2019 release with password recovery from new email clients like Mailbird, eM Client, Postbox, Claws Mail. Also supports latest version of The Bat, Foxmail, Thunderbird, IncrediMail etc
Version 8.0 : 8th Oct 2018
Major 2018 edition to support recovery of email passwords from Outlook 2016, new Thunderbird & Bat email clients.
Version 7.5 : 17th Aug 2016
Major 2016 edition with improved Installer/Un-installer.
Version 7.0 : 1st Sep 2015
Mega release with support for recovering email passwords on new Windows 10 version. Also fixed the sizing problem with higher resolution computers.
Version 6.0 : 24th Jul 2015
Major release with support for password recovery from Opera Mail and The Bat email clients. Also added feature to dynamically download latest version.
Version 5.0 : 22nd Mar 2015
Integrated Uninstaller into Windows Add/Remove Programs, now you can uninstall it in a standard way.
Version 4.6 : 8th Nov 2014
Removed false positive with various Antivirus solutions
Version 4.5 : 3rd July 2014
Removed the support for command-line feature as now we have exclusive command-line tool — Email Password Dump. Also fixed minor issue with Live Mail 2012.
Version 4.0 : 23rd Jan 2014
New feature to generate password recovery report in CSV (Comma-Seperated Values) File Format.
Version 3.5 : 13th Nov 2013
Improved GUI interface of main screen with magnifying icon effects.
Version 3.0 : 27th Feb 2013
Mega release with the support for password recovery from Outlook 2013, Windows Live Mail 2012, Foxmail v7.x
Version 2.5 : 3rd Nov 2012
Improved user interface & password recovery reports. Added Right Click Context Menu option to quickly copy the recovered password.
Version 2.0 : 23rd Jan 2012
Generate report in XML and Text format in both GUI as well as Command-line mode.
Version 1.6 : 26th July 2011
Support for password recovery from Foxmail
Version 1.5 : 3rd June 2011
Support for Windows Live Mail & IncrediMail
Version 1.1 : 31st Mar 2011
Added links for PasswordForensics.com in about section and few bug fixes
Version 1.0 : 23rd Feb 2011
First public release of MailPasswordDecryptor
Disclaimer
Mail Password Decryptor is not a hacking or cracking tool as it can recover only your stored passwords. It cannot recover the passwords for other users unless you have right credentials.
Like any tool its use either good or bad, depends upon the user who uses it. However Author or SecurityXploded is not responsible for any damage caused due to misuse of this tool.
Read complete License & Disclaimer terms here.
License: Freeware Platform: Windows XP, Vista,Windows 7,Windows 8,Windows 10
