I have 15 - 20 email accounts (hold-overs from days gone by) in my
2007
Outlook email installation. I need to wipe my hard drive to
downgrade from
Vista 32 to Vista 64. I can't remember all my passwords - some have
been
installed for a while. Can anybody help me with a means to backup
and
restore my email accounts including passwords? I don't have to even
know
them, just want to avoid the hassle of trying to remember them
all....
How is moving from a 32-bit version of the OS to a 64-bit version a
"downgrade"? I don't even see a 32- and 64-bit differentiation listed
for the various editions of Vista listed at
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ywo98. I figure the install would detect
the hardware to know which HAL to install. A new desktop GUI and a
different selection of fluff software does not make a new OS so I've
had no reason to "upgrade" to Vista. I'm back at Windows XP Pro. If
this is what Microsoft figures is a new version of Windows then I'll
probably end up going to Fedora (with WinXP in another primary
partition to multiboot to it for old software that only has Windows
versions). I don't see separation of Vista versions based on address
bus width. According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista,
"All editions except Windows Vista Starter support both 32-bit (x86)
and 64-bit (x64) processor architectures." You never mentioned WHICH
version of Vista that you have.
WHICH passwords are you asking about?
- PST file passwords?
- Account login passwords?
For account passwords, use the webmail interface to those accounts and
find the "I forgot password" link on their login page to have them
[reset your password and] send you an e-mail with the [new] password.
To crack the password stored in a PST file, well, Google works:
http://www.google.com/search?q=+Outlook++PST++password++forgot
Even Nirsoft has their PSTpassword utility. I haven't needed to use
it yet.
