Recovering hotmail password from Windows 10 mail app

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Hi guys,

is there a way to view a password which is stored in the Windows 10 mail app?

A friend has an hotmail account signed in on one PC to the Mail app but doesn't know the password.

Issue is now they can't sign in anywhere else and the recovery email is a friends old email :rolleyes:

They have tried twice filling in the recovery form requested from Microsoft but are unsuccessful.
 
I was going to say almost certainly no, but you might be in luck:


I think they would have had to have gone out their way to add the account using POP/IMAP though instead of the default modern authentication method that a Hotmail account would use if you set it up using the default option. It's unclear if this app can recover the password entered if modern auth was used because that would use a token to access the accounts email after you've initially authenticated the account with the password, rather than using the password each time.
 
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