CredHistView

You might be aware of this or you might not, but the fact is that Windows does save the hashes of the previous password you use on Windows. This practically happens every time you decide to change the login password.

But where and especially how can you find such information? you might ask. Well, the CredHistView application is specifically cut out for that task.

Please keep What CredHistView does is decryt the CREDHIST file, which stores the hashes of the previous passwords. With a bit of help, the CREDHIST file can help you see the hashes of previous passwords that were used to login to Windows.

Decrypting the CREDHIST file results in revealing all the hash codes of the latest login passwords. CredHistView shows all the hashes into an organized table, with information about the encryption algorithm, the record index and the user SID.

Like all the other applications created by this developer, CredHistView allows you to export the data into a HTML report. You can either export the entire table, or just certain columns that you choose.

To ease your work, CredHistView comes with options to mark rows and choose the columns to print.

If you are a regular computer user, then the CredHistView application might not be of service to you. However, if you need to see the contents of the CredHistView and play around with codes, password and hashes, this is the way to go.