How to recover your Skype password if you forgot your username and password

More and more social life is moving to digital platforms, due to their unconditional convenience for the end individual. Judge for yourself, not only do Internet resources make it possible to correspond with any person, or even several, geographically separated, but they also provide the opportunity to exchange other media information. In which, of course, you can include videos, photos, images, music, documents, graphs, various calculations and all other options for convenient presentation of data used in the topic of a joint conversation. Moreover, unlike physical mail, receiving this information can occur simultaneously with the conversation. The picture below shows an option for a business conference using digital technologies.

Direct communication between people is carried out through client programs, the most famous of which in Russia are WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, Mail.ru-agent, Facebook Messanger and of course Skype. The latter, one might say, was the founder of the functionality provided, which consisted of voice and video calls made via the Internet. It was thanks to him that conferences with the simultaneous participation of several users and their joint communication came into use. Of course, some people who still saw the dawn of the global network will remember ICQ with its “conversations”. But the latter were purely text-based, which ultimately led to the oblivion of the named platform for sending messages. Yes, after all the “young” messengers began to replicate the functionality of Skype, one-time video and audio calls were also added to ICQ. But, as they say, the train has already left.

Let's leave the long-suffering ICQ and turn to the topic of Skype. The platform gives the user not only a direct connection with any of the network subscribers who have a real client installed. You can also use it to make paid phone calls to regular numbers, save texts, files and images from all conversations, maintain a list of contacts, and, as mentioned earlier, bring together several people to simultaneously discuss issues of interest. That is, creating a kind of negotiation table. Moreover, everything mentioned is protected by encryption, and the program itself will not allow information on the topics discussed to be received externally, or an uninvited user joining the conversation.

The listed capabilities are provided by a unique user account, protected by a password, from attacks by outsiders. It is where contact information, a person’s photograph, personal data, including real name, surname and date of birth are stored. Accordingly, access to it also provides control of all connections, past and present, including management of the cash account used to pay for calls to landline or mobile numbers.

There are just times when you need to log into the Skype network again from a “clean” client. For example, after rearranging the PC system or resetting the mobile device. And the registration information is lost or forgotten. What's there to be surprised about? You have to store and remember it for hundreds of resources, which ultimately can lead to the loss of the login and password for a single one. Even storage systems (digital) do not help much, because any equipment is prone to breakdowns. The picture below shows one of the PC damages that leads to the failure of storage devices.

So, there are only two ways to recover your Skype password if you lose it. The first of which is to use the corresponding page in the client or on the Skype website. The second is to directly contact the support service of the said message sending system. The latter is done in cases where you need to restore access to Skype, but there is no information on the full login/password combination. In addition, let’s assume that at the time of need, there is no access to the mail and phone number specified during initial registration.

A small retreat

The Skype client, for all platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android and iOS, is written in Electron, which automatically provides uniformity of interface and actions for any type of device. That is, everything that will be demonstrated in screenshots for one OS means a similar presentation in the others. For example, the Skype login window on different platforms looks like this, as shown in the picture below.

In Apple iOS everything is the same, but in blue shades and with a rainbow displayed at the bottom of the client, otherwise the content is similar. It is not clear why there are such differences in a program designed to run on the named platform.

Skype profile - local user data

In the Windows operating system, the Skype program saves data for each Skype subscriber who has logged in at least once using their username.

In the user's local profile, Skype saves local program settings, as well as the entire history of text messages and other events: call history, file transfers, sending SMS, exchanging contacts and receiving voice messages.

A Skype user's local profile is presented as a folder with the user's name, which contains data files and several subfolders.

In order to get direct access to your profile, you need to go to:

C:\Documents and Settings\_system_username_\Application Data\Skype\_Skype_username\

For Windows 7 or Windows Vista:

C:\Users\_system_username_\AppData\Skype\_Skype_username\

You can do it even simpler:

Direct access to your local Skype profile can be useful for fine-tuning the program.

By deleting a Skype profile, you can solve even more interesting problems:

443 comments on “Skype profile - local user data”

Don’t engage in such nonsense, but just take it and talk to your husband. This is some kind of game.

If she changed his password, then it will no longer be lost. The only question is how did she change it without knowing the old password? If she knew, then let her return the old one. You can also reinstall Skype. In general, it was necessary to install Mipko personal monitor on the computer. He would tell her the whole truth - with whom and when her husband corresponds. In general, if you’ve already decided to go out with someone else, you’ll have to think about divorce. It’s always like that with your girls: you fall in love with the wrong ones. But if you don’t notice the good guys, then you yourself cry. But you can't get time back. As they say, “All men are bastards! And with those who are not bastards, it’s not interesting.” That's where the dog is buried. So a lover is one thing, and a husband is another. And he finds out or doesn’t find out, it doesn’t matter if he started cheating, it will only get worse. This means he needed an idle life, not a family. It became difficult - I screwed up. This is not a husband, but a cohabitant. I knew one such classmate. She herself got pregnant from the same guy, then he left her and writes to me, maybe we can be with you - the child needs a father, after all. So go to his father! Am I supposed to raise someone else’s child?! She completely took me for a sucker. And earlier than you thought? Not all that glitters is gold...

If there is part of the registration information

We are talking about how to recover your Skype password for those cases where you have at least part of the contact information used during registration. And specifically one thing - telephone or email. Naturally, you also need access to the number or email address, depending on what will be used for recovery, in order to receive a verification code to the specified address or number. In the case of a phone, it will come in the form of an SMS, for mail - an email, approximately as shown in the picture below.

Now about the actual procedure of how to reset a password:

Having opened the Web client or application on your device, and going through the pages until you enter your login, enter instead the connecting data that you remember - email or phone. Then activate the “Next” button.
Then, in the “Enter password” tab that opens, click on the inscription: “Forgot your password?” It is located directly below the input field.
“Identity Confirmation” will be displayed with the option to select a mailing address. If you don’t remember it, but specifically the phone number on which the registration was carried out, click “Show other verification methods.” The confirmation list will expand and will display part of the phone number used for registration.
We select the place where we can receive a message containing a confirmation sequence of numbers, click “Receive code” (it will become available after specifying the sending direction).
We take seven digital characters from the message that arrived, oh. In the client, a form will already be open, with a field where you need to enter them.
Click “Next” and you will be taken to the form for entering a new password. We fill in the fields provided, then again, activate the button similar to last time.
We get to a window confirming that the password has already been changed. Click on “Login” in the window, thereby we will confirm to the program that everything has been changed.
It will take us to the login page, where we will again need to specify a user ID, and by clicking “Next” we will need a new password.
That’s it, click “Login” at the bottom right, you will be logged into the Skype network.

Contacting technical support

Restoring a Skype profile without an email address will require you to contact technical support directly. To do this you need:

Go to the official Skype website (skype.com), to the “Additional Help” section (support.skype.com/ru/support_request);
Or in the program authorization window, click on the link “Can’t remember your email address?”;
Select language;
Fill in the fields “Purpose of appeal” and “Problem”;
Enter the personal data contained in the profile (login, phone numbers, city, etc.);
Specify some contacts from your account;
In case of making transactions on Skype, provide payment information (last four digits of the credit card, user’s full name, order number, country, etc.);
Add a new email address through which communication with Skype technical service will be maintained;
After analyzing all the information and if a positive decision is made, Skype employees will email instructions on how to restore access to your account.

If you cannot identify your account, you can create a new profile on Skype.

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If you do not have access to mail and telephone

For those cases when the user remembers part of the registration data, but no longer has access to the original mailbox and phone, there is another way to recover your Skype username and password. True, it takes quite a long time. The latter is associated with a more thorough verification of the identity of the person who originally used the account.

On one of the previously described client windows, where you select an email address or phone number as the recipient (naturally, after opening “Other verification methods”), you need to click on the inscription at the bottom “I do not have this data.” A window will open asking you to go to the site to reset your password. Click "Login". A browser will be launched, with a page requesting the account identification information you know and a new e-mail for communication.

By the way, it will definitely be checked by sending the code and then asking you to enter it in a special field.

You can open the login page immediately, bypassing the client program, by typing in the address field:

https://account.live.com/acsr

Once logged in, we continue to recover the Skype password by entering the account information that you remember. The action is performed on the next page, which will open after clicking the “Confirm” button. Or rather, there are several of them, and you need to fill out certain fields with information as much as possible.

For example, the first window will ask for personal information.

The second window contains information about different passwords.

And in the next questions about Skype.

If the quantity and quality of information suits the system, then a letter will be sent to the new email address, from which you can find out the password and login for your Skype account.

Auto login

You can recover your password and change your email address if Skype is set to automatically launch. To do this you need:

Click on the “Skype” icon on the desktop or taskbar (the system will automatically log into the program);
In the top menu, go to the “Skype” section;
Select the “Personal Data” subsection;
Click on the “Edit my data” item (the profile page will open);
At the bottom, click on the line “Show full profile”;
Find an email address;
Replace it with a new one;
Save changes;
Recover your account using a new email address.

Restoring access when identifiers are unknown

The most difficult type of Skype account recovery is if the user has forgotten not only the password, but also all other login identifiers. Here you will directly need to contact the messenger support service, which can be done directly on your computer by typing in your browser:

https://support.microsoft.com/ru-ru/contactus/

Communication with Microsoft specialists takes place online, so you can simultaneously describe the problem to them and provide them with all the known data about your lost Skype account. There is a non-zero probability of solving this issue.

How can I find out where my Skype password is stored?

A program from LastBit called Recovery Password is designed to recover saved authorization data from your PC.

If the methods described above did not help you, we recommend that you think carefully and try to remember this combination of characters, and subsequently always use the KeyPass utility to store important data.

For the safety of users, Skype stores all data at home and does not allow unauthorized persons to view access from Skype or remove the password from protection, even if your messenger is currently turned on. Only the account owner can recognize it if he takes the necessary actions.

So, there are two options for solving the problem:

Answers

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You can only see the md5 hash of this password, and if the password is not very complex, then open it by guessing this hash.
this file will contain a 32-bit hash key made by the md5 algorithm, but it, in turn, does not have an inverse function, and can only be revealed by brute force. PS The screen was taken from a personal computer, Windows 7.
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No way
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no way
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Read also: Error: files are missing, repeat hashing, what to do
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You can’t, but if you really need it, why not ask whoever you want to know the password? But why do we do it anyway?