There are many of us who are never lucky with passwords. True, some of us can come up with extremely good passwords, but forgetting them is usually easier than coming up with them in the first place.

Some apps may offer you the option of retrieving your password while others may not, and to get past these apps so that you can retrieve your data, cracking the password will be inevitable.

Password Cracker is one such app that can save you lots of effort whenever you’ve forgotten the password to your online account or the password to a document.

It is a pretty small application even when unzipped, and it can be run as soon as it is unzipped. It presents users with two text fields. The first one is labeled “Test” and the other is labeled “View”.

Besides this, there are four other buttons such as Enable, Options, Help, and About button.

The enable button is used whenever you want Password Cracker to start working on a forgotten password.

The Options button has very few functions. It has a checkbox which asks if you want to recover a password on the web or on your local computer.

To retrieve a forgotten password from an online website, a user has to go to the exact page where his/her login details are required. The user then clicks the Enable button and hovers the mouse on the password field.

Depending on the strength of the password, it might take a while before the actual result is generated and displayed.

To recover a password on a Windows application, the same process should be followed in order to achieve results.

Pros

- It is a very light app

- It is free

Cons

- Doesn’t work very well in Windows 7

- It takes a lot of time to crack long passwords