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Sorry for being so blunt in my post. I usually don't steer people towards the tools for password recovery for reasons left unsaid.

I know there are easy ways to not only recover and delete passwords but files off windows, but most people do not and it is generally not information people have in their pocket.

I think you are safe, if you would like to check the security of your password or make sure it is really secure, make it longer than 8 characters, a mix of upper and lower case, a number, a special character and add some sort of padding sequence.

Length and characters are the most important aspects of a password. Which of the following passwords do you think is better?

D0g.....................

or

PrXyc.N(n4k77#L!eVdAfp9

Believe it or not it is the first one as it has one more character and the attacker does not know what your padding scheme is, therefore it will take any attacker longer to breach.

All this information can be had at GRC.com at their Password Haystacks discussion, but for your purposes I just wanted to give a little extra advice.

I like to think in pass phrases. So for example take the simple phrase, Pass Phrase Alpha. Add a padding sequence of $$$, ###, 123 and you get a simple password of; Pass$$$Phrase###Alpha123. Plugging this into the password checker at grc.com and you get a password that would take 93.83 billion trillion trillion centuries for an online attack scenario to break.

Come up with your own personal pass phrase and padding scheme and plug it into the checker at; https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm and see how it does. Make the password as long as you can, the longer the better, over 16 characters is best.

I know I spouted a bunch a stuff and you are probably good with what you got, but thought I would throw this out there for anyone else who may want to know about passwords.

Be safe, cayugafalls