Secret Explorer 9.0 Build 1598

Secret Explorer - Protected Storage Explore: Internet passwords

This system inspection/maintenance tool allows you to explore Windows Protected Storage. This Windows feature is not documented and is known only to professionals. With Secret Explorer you will be able to become a professional, too.

You will be able to locate hidden information in any Windows-based system. This includes web form autocomplete data from IE; Microsoft Outlook account and identity passwords, passwords for password protected websites; dial-up passwords and other data that MS decided to store there.

With the unique import/export feature of Secret Explorer you can move all your personalized data (such as IE web form autocomplete data and stored passwords) from one computer to another, basically familiarizing the new system with you.

Since Secret Explorer looks like Windows Explorer, its interface should look familiar to you. Protected Storage has a tree structure; each user has his own Protected Storage. Under Windows 9x, Secret Explorer also shows the content of the current PWL file (PWL files used to be the way to store private data).

You can explore Protected Storage as follows:
Select the "File | Protected Storage Wizard" menu command. Click 'Read Protected Storage'.
Contents of your Protected Storage will appear on the screen within the Explorer-like interface. Use the tree view control on the left pane to navigate through Protected Storage. The right pane displays contents of the item currently selected on the left pane.
Note that the 'Read Protected Storage' command takes a static snapshot of Protected Storage. Thus, all changes that occur in Protected Storage after the snapshot is taken will not be reflected onscreen. Use the Edit | Refresh menu command to update the snapshot.
You can save the snapshot into a file (the File | Save menu command) and load saved snapshots (File | Open)
You can generate an overall report using the Edit | Generate Report menu command
The print and print preview commands are available. Note that the Print command prints only the content of the right pane. In order to print out the entire Protected Storage, use the Edit | Generate Report command first.
You can search throughout the entire Protected Storage using the Edit | Find and Edit | Find Next commands

You can transfer your personal settings (such as IE web form autocomplete data and stored passwords) from one computer to another in the following way:
On the source computer, select the File | Protected Storage Wizard menu command. Press 'Read Protected Storage'
Save the resulting protected storage snapshot in a file (use the File | Save menu command)
Copy the resulting file onto the destination computer
Run Secret Explorer on the destination computer (license is not required, you can run the DEMO version there)
Open the file using the File | Open menu command
Use the Tools | Import menu command to import the data.

Secret Explorer 9.0 Build 1598 is licensed as Shareware for the Windows operating system / platform. Secret Explorer is provided as a free to try download for all software users (Shareware).