Working with AOEPR

There are three buttons on the program toolbar: to recover mail accounts, news accounts and identities, respectively.

For every mail and news account, AOEPR shows the server address, login and password; usually, last two fields are shown as <none> for news, which means that no login/password is required to connect to the given server (however, it might be available only if you connect to the Internet from particular ISP). Also, the program shows the server type (NNTP for news accounts; and POP3, IMAP4 or HTTP for mail accounts) and Password Storage Type.

For Identities, AOEPR shows the list of name/password combinations.

Some information (describing what exactly the program is doing) is printed into the log window. You can select (with mouse) some events there, press right mouse button and copy selected lines into the Clipboard using appropriate item in pop-up menu.

Please note that all account/password information is stored in Windows Registry (in Protected Storage, to be exact), and being accessed by AOEPR using standard Windows API. That means that if you’ve re-installed (not upgraded) Windows, all your settings will be lost. Right now, AOEPR cannot extract it from binary Registry files – probably, it will be implemented in the next version.

All information shown by AOEPR (address, login password) can be save into the text file – use Save Report button.

If you experience any troubles when trying to get any passwords (for mail, news or identities), e.g. the program just crashes or does not show the password, you can use debug mode. To enable it, select Settings | Program Options menu item, check the Enable logging box, and select the path to log file (or just leave the default value). Then, try to recover the passwords again, and send us that log file. It does not contain your passwords, just some technical information (what does the program do: accessing particular Registry keys, reading and decryption data etc). It would really help us to locate and fix a problem.