If you forget your password for an email account or an online service, why would it be any different with the hardware that connects you to the network? The problem is simple: no matter the circumstances, you need to know how to recover your router password. The classic shortcut is to apply a full reset, but that forces you to reconfigure everything. If you've done your homework and have a backup of the configuration, you might be able to "read" the password using RouterPassView from NirSoft.
Let's start with the obvious: the most effective way to avoid losing passwords is to adopt a password manager that acts as a vault. But if you've come this far, then it's too late. You want to get into your router's configuration, and you forgot the password. Pressing the reset button is easy... and tedious, because it purges the entire configuration. However, there is a more remote possibility: recover the router password with RouterPassView.
How to recover your router password with RouterPassView
The first thing I need to mention is that RouterPassView doesn't work by magic. It is not "a couple of clicks and it's over". Neither is it a hacking tool for your router. RouterPassView depends on you having created a backup of your router's configuration.
Many readers were upset in the original article, and I understand the frustration perfectly, but the conditions haven't changed. Backup, backup, backup. If you don't have a copy of the configuration file, stop here, press the router's reset button, and take the hit. Otherwise, using RouterPassView only requires a few steps:
- Download a copy of RouterPassView and open its executable.
- Go to File, and click on Open Router Configuration File.
- Find and open the backup file (it might be a .bin).
- Try to locate the password among the data. With a bit of luck it will be there.
And that's it. NirSoft published a list with dozens of compatible routers, but at the same time recommends trying if your model doesn't appear there. Many routers on the market are virtually identical at the hardware level, separated by minor differences like the name or the number of antennas.
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Another interesting aspect of RouterPassView is that it helps us recover PPPoE usernames and passwords, or the WiFi network password configured at the time of the backup (if you lose your WiFi password, it might be better to extract it from Windows). RouterPassView retains the ability to extract the router password if it was saved in Internet Explorer, although it's a legacy feature with very limited utility. If you need to recover your router password, I hope RouterPassView helps you before the reset.
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