Extract dialup/RAS/VPN passwords stored by Windows
Dialupass v3.05 enumerates all dialup/VPN entries on your computers, and displays their logon details: User Name, Password, and Domain. You can use it to recover a lost password of your Internet connection or VPN.
Dialupass also allows you to save the dialup/VPN list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy it to the clipboard.
Using Dialupass
Dialupass is a standalone application, and it doesn’t require any installation process or additional DLLs. Just copy the dialupass.exe to any folder you want and run it. After you run it, it’ll instantly show all your Dial-Up accounts and their user/password details.
You can also select one or more Dial-Up items (by using Ctrl and Shift keys), and then save them into text/csv/html/xml file , or copy them into the clipboard (Ctrl+C).
Dialupass utility also allows you to easily edit the logon details: user name, password and domain. You can get the editing dialog-box by double-clicking the item you want to edit.
Command-Line Options
| /setpass <Entry Name> <User Name> <Password> <Domain> | Set the user name, password, and domain for the specified dialup entry. |
| /external <Windows Directory> <Profiles Base Folder> | Load the dialup items from external instance of Windows 2000/XP/2003 operating system. For example: dialupass.exe /external “j:\windows” “j:\Documents and Settings” |
| /pbkfile <Phonebook file> | Specifies the phonebook file to load. |
| /stext <Filename> | Save the list of all dialup items into a regular text file. |
| /stab <Filename> | Save the list of all dialup items into a tab-delimited text file. |
| /scomma <Filename> | Save the list of all dialup items into a comma-delimited text file. |
| /stabular <Filename> | Save the list of all dialup items into a tabular text file. |
| /shtml <Filename> | Save the list of all dialup items into HTML file (Horizontal). |
| /sverhtml <Filename> | Save the list of all dialup items into HTML file (Vertical). |
| /sxml <Filename> | Save the list of all dialup items to XML file. |
| /sort <column> | This command-line option can be used with other save options for sorting by the desired column. If you don’t specify this option, the list is sorted according to the last sort that you made from the user interface. The <column> parameter can specify the column index (0 for the first column, 1 for the second column, and so on) or the name of the column, like “User Name” and “Password”. You can specify the ‘~’ prefix character (e.g: “~Entry Name”) if you want to sort in descending order. You can put multiple /sort in the command-line if you want to sort by multiple columns.Examples: Dialupass.exe /shtml “f:\temp\dialup.html” /sort 2 /sort ~1 Dialupass.exe /shtml “f:\temp\dialup.html” /sort “Entry Name” |
| /nosort | When you specify this command-line option, the list will be saved without any sorting. |
Translating Dialupass to other languages
In order to translate Dialupass to other language, follow the instructions below:
- Run Dialupass with /savelangfile parameter:
Dialupass.exe /savelangfile
A file named Dialupass_lng.ini will be created in the folder of Dialupass utility. - Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
- Translate all string entries to the desired language. Optionally, you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information, it’ll be used in the ‘About’ window.
- After you finish the translation, Run Dialupass, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
If you want to run Dialupass without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.
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