User Guide – Messenger Password Recovery Pro 2024

Contents

• About
• Supported Apps
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Installation
• How to Use?
• Right Click Menu Options
• Settings
  • Set Custom Profile Location
  • Examples of Custom Profile Locations
• Password Recovery Report
• How to Use Command-line Version 
• Advanced Feature – Recover from Custom Profile Location
• Automation of Messenger Password Recovery
• Version & Release History
• Contact XenArmor

About

XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro is the enterprise software to instantly recover ALL your lost or forgotten login password of popular instant messengers.

It also helps you to recover passwords from portable Messengers, external drives or custom profile locations.

Supported Instant Messengers

Current version supports password recovery from following popular Instant Messengers,

1. Trillian
2. Paltalk
3. Google Talk
4. Nimbuzz Messenger
5. Spark IM
6. Beyluxe Messenger
7. Garena Messenger
8. Digsby IM
9. IMVU Messenger
10. Instantbird
11. MSN Messenger
12. Miranda IM
13. Myspace IM
14. Pidgin Messenger
15. Windows Live Messenger
16. XFire Messenger
17. Yahoo! Messenger

Benefits

Here are the main benefits for you,

• Recover passwords from top 15+ Messengers
• Recover from both 32-bit & 64-bit messengers
• Recover from portable apps or custom app locations*
• Recover passwords of any length
• Auto recover passwords from All users for InstandBird
• Command-line version to run from scripts
• Automation of Messenger password recovery
• Backup passwords to HTML,CSV,XML,JSON or SQLite file
• Unlimited Edition (100% Portable): Run directly from USB disk
• Free Download Protection Warranty
• Lifetime License – No worries about license expiry
• Supports All Windows PCs (Vista to new Windows 11)

Important Note: This is not the software to hack Passwords as it can recover only your stored passwords from applications on your computer.

Requirements

XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro works on both 32-bit & 64-bit platforms starting from Windows Vista to Windows 11.

Here are the specific details,

• Installation Size: 8 MB
• RAM: 4 GB+ Recommended
• Operating System: Windows 11,10,8,7,Vista Windows Server 2022,2019,2016,2012,2008 (32-bit/64-bit)

Note: Mobile/pads/non-windows devices not supported

Installation

XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro comes with standard windows installer which allows seamless installation & un-installation.

Launch the setup file and follow on-screen instructions to complete the installation as shown below,

After installation, it will launch your software showing activation screen as follows,

Anytime, you can uninstall it directly from the Windows Add/Remove Programs.

How to Use?

XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro is very easy to use. After installation, just launch it. It will instantly recover and show all your stored passwords from popular apps as shown below,

 

 

You can easily sort the displayed password list based on Application, Username, Password etc. by simply clicking on corresponding header in the List.

Also you can click on ‘Recover Again’ button to refresh & recover the passwords again anytime.

Right Click Menu Options

Right click context menu helps you to quickly & easily copy various fields (such as Application, Account Type, Username, Password etc).

Settings

Settings Panel help you to tweak & customize password recovery operations as per you need. Mainly it helps you to select applications, specify custom profile paths (portable apps/external drive)

To launch, simply click on ‘Settings’ button from the main GUI screen and you will see the Settings Panel as shown below,

Refer to below sections for more details on each of the sections in Settings screen.

Settings – Customize Application Profile Path

This is one of the unique benefits of XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro. It helps you to specify the custom profile paths for each supported application.

This is very useful when you want to recover passwords from portable Instant Messengers, non-default profile locations or profiles copied from another computer or external drive.

Note: This feature is available only in Enterprise & higher Editions.

This is useful in cases when you want to recover passwords from portable applications, non-default profile location or external drive.

Here are simple steps to add/edit/remove custom app locations

• In the Settings screen, go to second section “Application Profile Locations”
• Now to ADD custom app location, double click on application in the List or select the application from selection box
• Next you can enter the location manually or click on browse button or simply drag & drop the folder
• Finally click on “Update” to add the Path for this application
• To EDIT custom app location, select the application from selection box or double click in the List
• Now you can edit it or select new path by clicking on browse button or simply drag & drop the folder
• To Remove custom app location, right click on the application in the List and click on “Remove Profile Location”

All changes to Custom Locations are saved automatically. Once done, you can go back to main screen, click on “Recover Passwords” to recover all passwords from new custom app locations.

Default Profile Locations for Supported Messengers

• Digsby
  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Digsby\
• Garena Messenger
  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\GarenaPlus\
• Instantbird
  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Instantbird\Profiles\akl6l0o8.default\
• Miranda
  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Miranda\
• Myspace IM
  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\MySpace\IM\
• Pidgin
  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\.purple\
• Spark IM
  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Spark\
• Trillian
  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Trillian\users\global\
• XFire
  C:\Users\<user_name>\.xdman\

Messenger Password Report

XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro helps you to generate detailed report in HTML, CSV, XML, JSON or SQLite Database format.

To generate report, after the password recovery, click on Report button and then select the Type of Report (HTML, CSV, XML, JSON, SQLite) from the ‘File Save Dialog’.

Here is the sample of HTML Password Report,

How to Use Command-line Version?

XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro supports both GUI & command-line in the single executable file. Command-line version helps you to fully automate Messenger Password Recovery operation. You can also

easily integrate it into your scripts or programs as part of advanced operations.

Here is the screenshot of Command-line version (passwords masked for security reasons)

Here are various command-line options & examples

By default it will generate report in HTML format. You can specify CSV, XML, JSON or DB extension to Output File to generate report in CSV, XML, JSON or SQLite database format.

Note: This feature is available only in Enterprise & higher editions.

Advanced Feature – Recover from Custom Profile Location

XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro supports Custom Profile Feature helping you to recover passwords from portable Instant Messengers, external drive or profiles copied from another computer.

Often applications change their profile location with every release or some times users choose different location. Since path has changed, automatic password recovery will fail. In such cases this “Custom Profile Path” feature will help you to easily specify the changed location and recover all the passwords.

You can set the Custom Profile location for each supported application through Settings as shown below. For more details on how to add/edit/remove path, refer to “Settings – Custom Profile Path Section”

 

Note: This feature is available only in Enterprise & higher editions.

Automation of Messenger Password Recovery

XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro Command-line version can help you to completely

automate your Messenger password recovery operations daily or periodically. It can generate detailed report which can be used for future auditing or backup purposes.

Here are simple steps to automate Messenger Password Recovery using Windows Task Scheduler.

1) Launch Windows Task Scheduler from Administrative Tools in Control Panel. Next click on “Create Basic Task” on right side panel as shown below,

2) On the Basic Task page, enter name as ‘Messenger Password Recovery’. On next page select ‘Daily or Weekly or Monthly’ with appropriate Time settings as per your need.

3) Next on the ‘Action’ Page, click on Start Program and then enter command & arguments as shown below,

For more command-line options refer to Messenger Password Recovery Pro Command-line Version section.

4) Finally click on ‘Finish button’ to schedule the automatic Messenger Password Recovery operation.

Version & Release History

Note: To get download link of latest update please contact our support team with your order details.

Version 5.0 (2024 Edition): 25 Apr 2024

Important software release now signed with new EV code certificate from Sectigo, the world leading certificate authority (CA). This greatly enhances trust and reduces Antivirus false positive warning. Also changed names of Personal/Enterprise Edition to Basic/Premium Edition respectively to make it more user friendly.

Version 4.0 (2024 Edition): 19 Dec 2023

New 2024 release with following updates

• New attractive GUI interface with improved password reports
• Fixed & enhanced password recovery from InstantBird, Google Talk etc
• Fixed antivirus issue with Pidgin, Trillian, Google Talk etc
• New installer design for quick & easy installation
• Enhanced license manager with fix for upgrade issues
• Removed support for Windows XP, Now it runs on Vista & all higher editions

Version 3.0 (2022 Edition): 23 Sep 2022

Mega 2022 release for new Windows 11 platform. Now recover passwords of 17 messengers including new apps like XFire, Garena Messenger. Below are the major updates

• Total password recovery from 17 popular messengers
• Recover passwords from 2 new messengers, XFire & Garena Messenger
• Auto recover passwords from all other users for Mozilla apps like InstantBird.
• Personal Edition: Now generate report in all file formats
• Now recover passwords by pressing F5 button
• Display status during the password recovery operation
• Enhanced user interface with maximized screen, new icons & improved report
• UAC Manifest is now changed to run as Administrator automatically
• Supports All Windows PCs (XP to new Windows 11)

Version 2.0 (2020 Edition): 5th Apr 2020

Major 2020 release with Unlimited Portable Edition to run on multiple PCs without installation and license activation. Added support for password recovery from latest version of top 15+ instant messengers

Version 1.0 (2019 Edition): 4th Jul 2019

First public release of 2019 edition

Contact XenArmor

Have any more queries or need any technical clarification? Just write to us at support@xenarmor.com and you will have response within 24 to 48 hours.

For more details visit home page of XenArmor Messenger Password Recovery Pro