How to find a password for a contact on your computer. How to find out the password from VK

To log into the VKontakte social network, like many other sites, you need to enter your username and password, which are created by the user during the page registration process. Since there are a huge number of sites on the Internet, and no less various services and applications, a user may eventually forget his password, including for VKontakte. In such a situation, the question arises of how to find out the password from VK if you are already logged into your account. In this article we will consider whether this can be done.

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Is it possible to see your VKontakte password?

The settings on the VKontakte social network are very extensive, which is why not every user can find the option they need. There is an opinion that in VK you can see what password is set on the logged in page. This is wrong.

As you can see, there is no option in the account settings to view the VKontakte password. But there is another way, discussed below.

How to find out the password from VK

Now let's look at a working method of how to view the password from VKontakte. This is done quite simply through the browser that you use as your main one. That is, if you have given your consent to the browser to save your account information, then in the browser you will be able to see what password is set on the page.

Depending on what browser you are using, the ways to view your saved VKontakte password will be different. Let's look at examples for the most popular and common browsers.

Google Chrome

Opera

Mozilla Firefox

Yandex browser

All of the methods listed above allow you to easily find out through your browser which password is used on the VKontakte social network for a specific account.

Before writing step-by-step steps, how can you find out and view your saved passwords in popular browsers such as Yandex browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. I would still like to remind those who do not yet know that saving passwords in browsers is not recommended, it is not safe.

Remember your passwords in your head or use password managers, now there are quite a lot of them for every taste and color, but I recommend KeePass (free, there is a Portable version, which allows you to store all the data on a flash drive without fear that the computer will break and the data will be lost).

How to view your saved passwords in Yandex browser

1. In the right corner of the browser, click on the “Yandex Browser Settings” tab.
When you click on it, a drop-down list will open, select “Settings”.

2. After clicking “Settings”, a tab opens with all browser settings. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the “Show advanced settings” button and click it.

3. Scroll the page to the “Passwords and Forms” item and see the “Password Management” button, click it and see the sites on which you saved the password. Select the site we need and click show.

To display the password, you may need to enter the password for your Computer account (do not confuse it, not for mail, profiles or social networks, but for the Computer).

View your saved passwords in the Google Chrome browser

Viewing saved passwords in Google Chrome is practically no different from the Yandex browser.

All the same actions:

1. In the right corner of the browser, click the “Settings” tab

3. In the additional settings that open, look for the “Passwords and forms” item.

On the line “Offer to save passwords for sites” there is a link “Customize”, click on it and a window with our sites and passwords will open.

Select the desired site and click show password.

To view, the browser may ask you to enter a password for your Computer user account. (don’t get confused, not from mail, profiles or social networks, but from the Computer).

Find out your saved passwords in the Mozilla Firefox browser

Viewing passwords in the Mozilla Firefox browser is not much different from the browsers above, except for the names of some buttons and paths :)

The actions are the same:

1. In the right corner of the browser, click “Open menu”.
In the drop-down list, click “Settings”.

2. On the right side of the menu, click the “Protection” item and see the “Saved Passwords” button, click it and see the sites and saved passwords for them.

If you set your password for the “Master Password”, then before displaying the password, you will need to enter the master password.

View your passwords in the Opera browser

The steps with the Opera browser are similar:

1. In the left corner of the browser, click “Menu” and in the drop-down list click “Settings”.
2. Click the “Security” item.

3. On the settings page we see the “Passwords” item and the “Manage saved passwords” button, click on it and a window with our sites and passwords will open, select the desired site and click show password.

To view, you will need to enter the password for your Computer user account. (Don’t get confused, not from mail, profiles or social networks, but from the Computer)

It's simple.

Well, the last view of passwords will be in the Microsoft Edge browser, also known as Internet Explorer

In these browsers, the paths where our passwords are saved are slightly different.

1. In the right corner, click on the “Service” item, also known as Settings.
Select “Internet Options” from the drop-down list. A tab will open where we need to switch to the contents tab.

2. In the “Autofill” item there is a “Options” button, click on it and another window will appear where we need to click the treasured “Password Management” button.

3. After clicking on the button, the “Internet Credential Manager” will open, where our sites and passwords will be, next to the password there will be a link to show the password, we click on it to view.

To view the password, you will need to enter the password for your Computer account. (Do not confuse it not from mail, profiles or social networks, but from the Computer)

Is everything much easier than expected? 🙂

Here's where passwords are stored, and not just for Contact in Mozilla:

I often find them there along with logins from some... not only blondes, but also from blondes, as well as from forgetful, careless and other users who value the convenience of auto-substitution above their own computer security.

Yes, they themselves often ask for this. Well, how can you not help a good person? The main thing is not to forget to remind that the admin does not drink chocolates.

(I’m kidding! There’s nowhere to put champagne and cognac, but they carry everything and carry it, just like the Magi bringing gifts)

You can ( without forgetting about the negative attitude of antiviruses towards this software, and acting at your own peril and risk) try the Multi Password Recovery (MPR) program. It is relatively inexpensive ($19.95), although you can also search for cracks on the Internet. I haven’t explored all the new possibilities, but the list alone is worth it. I used older versions.

Considering that VKontakte users use their own browser, I will assume that the most popular is the Chrome browser from Google.

This browser stores the passwords you enter (if, of course, the function of saving them is enabled), including VKontakte, in a folder in the following path (there are some differences depending on the operating system of your PC):

in Windows XP:

Vista:

7 - ka and 8 - ka:

on Mac:

Passwords are stored in the Login Data folder:

If you don't want Chrome to remember (save) your passwords, you can disable saving them:

You can find passwords on your computer in your browser, but only if you have a checkbox in the settings next to the auto-save passwords item. In order to see the passwords, open the browser settings, and then go to security, here the passwords will be.

Passwords for your account of any social network, and indeed any website, are in the folder of your browser, unless, of course, you have enabled saving passwords in the settings. I strongly recommend that you do not save passwords in your browser. This way you won’t forget them, and to some extent protect yourself from intruders.

If the browser through which you logged into the VKontakte social network is configured in such a way that it saves all entered passwords, then you should look for the VK password in the browser folder itself.

To be more precise, for example, Mozilla Firefox assumes the path

Depends on what browser you have. In general, all passwords that you use on social networks and on the Internet are remembered by your browser. You can disable remembering your password in your browser settings. If you wish to delete all passwords and data, simply delete the history. For example from Google:

Also, if you do not want your passwords to be hacked, try not to save your passwords when you are not at home, then the system will not remember them. A programmer friend once told me about this. If you save it once, you will immediately be able to access your accounts.

Look in your browser settings, all data is stored there. A convenient way to find out someone else's password when you come to visit. Therefore, never remember passwords, or even better, use two browsers if you share one computer. Clear your browsing history and don't check the box to remember it

Perhaps, today every user has encountered a problem when a password for an account or service, created earlier, was forgotten. Of course, there is always the possibility of restoring it, but sometimes, when the password was previously saved and is displayed to the user “hidden” behind dots or asterisks, there is another possibility of viewing it. This is what we will talk about today.

Where are network passwords stored in Windows 7

To begin with, we suggest you figure out the place where you can view current network passwords, which are often used by users who are on a local network with other computers. It is this data that allows you to automatically log in to shared folders stored on other computers or servers. In addition, the network passwords section contains data for authorization in the remote desktop interface.

Finding the location of these passwords is quite simple:

Click on "Start".

Go to the "Control Panel" section.

From the sections available in the menu, select “User Accounts and Family Safety.”

Navigate to the Credential Manager section.

Review the credentials for “logged in” remote devices and servers.

In this menu in the Windows 7 interface, users are given the opportunity to change and view remote login data.

Administrator and PC user passwords

If you want to know where the administrator and user passwords are stored in Windows 7, then the answer to this question is extremely simple - in the operating system registry. However, if we talk about getting this data and viewing it, then such an opportunity will not be available to the vast majority of users.

This can be explained by the fact that Microsoft developers have worked hard on protection and encryption in the system so that passwords cannot be obtained with bare hands. Even when using special software, viewing this information will be quite difficult.

If you are faced with the task of changing the administrator password of a computer that you do not know, you can only implement it using additional software in the form of a Live CD, booting the computer with a system pre-installed on the disk with a shell for making system configurations.

In turn, if you are a computer administrator, you can change user passwords as follows:

Where are Skype passwords stored in Windows 7

The next question, which also systematically arises among modern PC users running Windows operating systems, concerns Skype password recovery. Often the password is saved on the computer, and after some time, it could be in a day, or maybe in a year, the user needs to transfer or install the messenger on another computer or gadget. Of course, the password had long been forgotten, and on the computer it was securely hidden behind asterisks. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the developers from Microsoft also did a good job on the security of their messenger, in which it is not so easy to find out the password, even if it is saved in the system.

The ideal way to obtain password information in this situation is to initiate a password recovery procedure. This procedure is carried out as follows:

Passwords in browsers on Windows 7

The last question we wanted to consider today concerns where passwords are stored in Opera, Chrome and Mozilla on Windows 7. These are the most popular web browsers today, widely used by users. This is why the issue of recovering and viewing passwords for various web services is so relevant.

If we talk about Google’s browser, Chrome, then it’s very easy to view data about all saved passwords. To do this, follow these instructions:

Go to your browser settings.

Scroll down the list of settings to “Show advanced settings” and click on it.

Find the “Passwords and Forms” subcategory and click on the “Customize” button located next to the offer to save passwords.

You will see a list of Internet resources and the credentials saved for them. All you need to do is find the site you are interested in and click on the “Show” button in the password box for it.

If you are interested in where passwords are stored in Mozilla on Windows 7, then here the instructions for finding them look approximately the same. In order to obtain up-to-date information, it is necessary to perform the following actions:

Go to your browser settings by clicking the corresponding button in the Firefox home start page interface.

Go to the "Protection" section.

Click on the “Saved Logins” button.

Click on the "Show Passwords" button.

Confirm your intentions by clicking on the “Yes” button.

A password field will appear in the window next to the logins for each Internet service.

All we have to do is find out where passwords are stored in Opera on Windows 7. To view information about saved authorization data in this web browser, you must perform the following steps:

Click on the Opera shortcut at the top of the browser interface.

In the menu that appears, find the “Settings” sub-item and click on it.

In the settings menu, find and click on “Security”.

Click on the "Manage saved passwords" button.

You will see a similar menu that was displayed in the Google Chrome browser. In it you can find the corresponding web resource and view the password for it by clicking on the “Show” button.

This was all the information about where passwords are stored in Windows 7. We advise you to never forget your authorization data and use only reliable access codes to the system and web resources.

Good day.

Quite an interesting question in the title :).

I think that every Internet user (more or less active) is registered on dozens of sites (email, social networks, some kind of game, etc.). It is almost impossible to remember the passwords for each site in your head - it is not surprising that there comes a time when you cannot access the site!

What to do in this case? I will try to answer this question in this article.

"Smart" browsers

Almost all modern browsers (unless you specifically change the settings) save passwords from visited sites in order to speed up your work. The next time you visit the site, the browser itself will insert your username and password into the required fields, and all you have to do is confirm your login.

That is, the browser stores passwords for most of the sites you visit!

How to recognize them?

Simple enough. Let's look at how this is done in the three most popular Russian Internet browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Opera.

Google Chrome

1) In the upper right corner of the browser there is an icon with three lines, by opening which you can go to the program settings. This is what we do (see Fig. 1)!

2) In the settings, you need to scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on the link “ Show advanced options". Next, you need to find the “Passwords and forms” subsection and click the “configure” button, opposite the item about saving passwords for site forms (as in Fig. 2).

Rice. 3. Passwords and logins...

Firefox

Settings address: about:preferences#security

Go to your browser settings page (link above) and click the " Saved logins..."as in fig. 4.

Rice. 5. Copy the password.

O pera

Settings page: chrome://settings

In Opera, you can quickly view your saved passwords by simply opening the settings page ( link above), select the “Security” section, and click the “ Managing saved passwords". Actually, that's all!

What to do if there is no saved password in the browser...

This also happens. The browser does not always save the password (sometimes this option is disabled in the settings, or the user did not agree to saving the password when the corresponding window popped up).

In these cases, you can do the following:

almost all sites have a form for password recovery, where you just need to indicate your registration email (E-mail address), to which a new password (or instructions for restoring it) will be sent;
Many sites and services have a “Security Question” (for example, your mother’s last name before marriage...), if you remember the answer to it, then you can just as easily recover your password;
If you do not have access to mail, or do not know the answer to the security question, then write directly to the site owner (support service). It is possible that your access will be restored...

P S

I recommend keeping a small notebook and writing down passwords from important sites in it (for example, E-mail password, answers to security questions, etc.). Information tends to be forgotten, and after half a year, you will be surprised to discover how useful this notebook turned out to be! At least, such a “diary” has helped me out more than once...

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