How to reveal hidden passwords behind asterisks in Windows XP

Try this link, it might get you started.
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=783

U want to show yahoo, msn and gmail messanger passwords or what ?
I basically know a method to know the password cashed for any running program, and if u want make the textbox pass-char = nothing .. so if u need this tell me, otherwise I don't know how do u want it for windows xp itself , if I haven't good understood u, I'm sorry ; but my method doesn't depends on windows encryption method , just some api calls to know the "forground program text caption value" .. that's all .

Thank U , amahdy for caring with my topic

U R from Maady an I 'm from Menuf

I know that Ron's posted code works on visual basic applications , but if you use it to show a dialup connection password ( for example ) it will not work

also if you tried it with yahoo messenger it will not work

Look at the attached pictures

here I want ( for Example ) to get stored ( remote desktop password )

in the first one I succeeded to get the password using a free program called "asterisk logger" ( Great work !!)

while in the second image I couldn't get it using Ron's posted code

look !
how could this program get this password

don't care about revealing it in the same window
I don't want that in my program

My program is for logging typed passwords

it is now working and logs files like this

25/1/2007 06:45:10 AM ,Windows Started

S pressed
left shift pressed
T pressed
A pressed
left shift released
R pressed
T pressed

left mouse clicked on 245,101
alt pressed
ctrl pressed
del preesed
alt released
ctrl released
del released
Enter key pressed
___________

Here (in this example ) the password of starting windows is "sTArt"

I have to run this program invisibly by adding it to startup scripts from gpedit.msc console program

so any user logs in , the keystrokes is saved to a file

but I think this method is so stupid , so I tried to get password using SendMessage Function and no way !
Ron's code : no way !
asterisk logger : did it easily!

I explained this for U to understand what I mean

but in last few hours I found a software that recovers windows XP passwords so I think that my project will be useless

my program has been used in some companies by employees to get the Adminstrator Password to get rid of controlling internet services and was successful

I 'm sorry for this long reply but may someone learn something

I'm a beginner but no one teached me

All my experience is from VB documentation in microsoft office , the msdn or by viewing source codes and articles and some eBooks.

Thank U Mahdy for replying
I'm pleased to see U here , too
I knew this website when I searched the web for what I need and downloaded the program from it

any case , thank you for co-operating

Yes !
Here is a program and its source code 4 what I need
but unfortunately , It's coded in Visual C

Can any one help me to convert it to a VB Code ?!

Well this is the explained code :

'Password Revealer
'Copyright (c) 2002 Nir Sofer
'Web site: http://nirsoft.mirrorz.com
'
'The following code sample scans all opened windows, and reveals the passwords
'behind the password text-boxes (with asterisks '***').

' :p This code sample works properly only on Windows 95/98/ME/NT. It doesn't work on Windows 2000/XP :p

Public Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32" _
(ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function EnumChildWindows Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hWndParent As Long, ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long

Public Type POINTAPI
x As Long
y As Long
End Type

Public Type MSG
hwnd As Long
message As Long
wParam As Long
lParam As Long
time As Long
pt As POINTAPI
End Type

Public Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Public Const GWL_STYLE = (-16)
Public Const ES_PASSWORD = &H20&
Public Const EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR = &HCC

Public Declare Function InvalidateRect Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, lpRect As Any, ByVal bErase As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function UpdateWindow Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long

Public Function EnumChildWindowsProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
If (GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE) And ES_PASSWORD) <> 0 Then
'Clear the password character
SendMessage hwnd, EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, 0, 0
'Repaint the window
InvalidateRect hwnd, ByVal 0, 0
UpdateWindow hwnd
End If
EnumChildWindowsProc = 1
End Function

Public Function EnumWindowsProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
'Enumerating all child windows.
EnumChildWindows hwnd, AddressOf EnumChildWindowsProc, 0
EnumWindowsProc = 1
End Function

Public Sub EnumPasswords()
'Enumerating all top-level windows.
EnumWindows AddressOf EnumWindowsProc, 0
End Sub

note :

read the above bold text :

'This code sample works properly only on Windows 95/98/ME/NT. It doesn't work on Windows 2000/XP.
'

The only solution is to convert the visual C++ code to a vb code
but I don't know of Visual C++ exept its name ! :WAVE:

Try the next -->
http://nirsoft.net/utils/asterie.html
http://nirsoft.net/utils/asterwin.html

But this code is for web-page passwords

But this code is for web-page passwords
sorry I do not understand.
can you give me an example?

Marco

now that you explained the problem and the need, I understand the problem.

please try to understand me: when I am suspicious of the purpose of a question, I am hesitant to help. If you had said "I want to protect my password from being spied" instead of "I wanna read a password protected textbox" it could have been clearer from the start... :)

My regards,
Marco