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My computer died. One day it worked fine, the next it didn't power up. They told me the motherboard has died. I don't have any backups. They recovered all the data from C: drive, however, all my online passwords were stored in Chrome. Is there a way for me to recover them?

The computer that died had Win10 and now I'm using my old one with Win7. If there was a file, from which Chrome could recover the passwords, where could I find it?

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    Just transfer the Chrome user profile within AppData to your new computer. – Ramhound Aug 14 '18 at 22:15
  • Passwords are encrypted and unrecoverable in the user profile... – Moab Aug 14 '18 at 22:26
  • From the duplicate: "you will lose all stored passwords since they are encrypted using a Windows API that uses a machine/account specific key, which obviously will be different on any other machine/account." – music2myear Aug 14 '18 at 22:33
  • @music2myear - You can store passwords in Chrome without encrypting them though. At least you could when I was big enough fool to store passwords in a browser (not exactly the more secure). Additionally, if a google account was used, it’s probably they were synced – Ramhound Aug 14 '18 at 22:41

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Try ChromePass from NirSoft:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.html

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ChromePass is a small password recovery tool for Windows that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Google Chrome Web browser. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Origin URL, Action URL, User Name Field, Password Field, User Name, Password, and Created Time. It allows you to get the passwords from your current running system, or from a user profile stored on external drive. You can select one or more items and then save them into text/html/xml file or copy them to the clipboard.

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