Did you know that you can reveal email password in Outlook? In case you lose email account credentials, or no access to retrieve it anymore, there’s a chance you can still get it. By using special software, we will show you how to reveal email account password in Outlook. It is very useful when migrating an account into another computer.
Your email account login information including password is stored in Outlook database. That’s why you can still send and receive email. This data won’t be lost as long as the Office and PST are installed.
In this post, we will show you how to reveal an email account password hidden by asterisk key in Outlook 2010.
To do this, we will have to open your Outlook 2010 Account Settings, and see the Internet Email Settings in which you can see a password hidden by an asterisk symbol.
We will also have to download and install Passware Asterisk key. This software lets you reveal the password covered by Asterisk.
Here’s how to reveal Email Account Password in Outlook 2010
Step 1- Open Microsoft Outlook 2010, head over to File > Info > Account Settings > Account Settings
Step 2- Under Email Accounts setting, click Email Tab > double click the account you want to reveal password
Step 3- Keep Internet Email settings window open, as you can see the account password below is hidden by asterisk symbol.
Step 4- Download and install Passware Asterisk Key.
Step 5- Run Passware Asterisk Key, put its window just in front of Internet Email Setting window, then Click Recover button.
Here you can see the email account password installed in Outlook 2010. Make a backup list of it for future reference.
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