There are times when it may be essential to recover all the keys to your installed software or even all the accounts and passwords used... this is particularly the case when you want to reformat your computer.
The software box has disappeared (thrown in the trash by your wife who wants to make room), the email address you used at the time has been forgotten... In short, here is the solution to recover this information peacefully.
You will need to install a small software, recALL, which will allow you to recover all this data for nearly 3000 programs (passwords for more than 200 programs and license keys for more than 2800 software programs).
To do this, download recALL and install it on your machine.
Launch the software and it will scan your computer and your internet browsers in search of these precious keys... The scan can last several minutes (or even more than ten minutes).
Finally, you can export the results which will be very useful to you when you reinstall your computer!
Practical, right? (and a little worrying when you see the amount of information that can easily be retrieved from your computer)!
As for the forgotten Windows password, reinstalling the Windows system will not be the best solution. It is possible to remove or reset the password with certain tools. This allows you to preserve all the files in the system partition as well as Windows. http://www.reneelab.fr/product-land-280.html