How to Recover lost RDP Passwords (Decrypt Remote Desktop Connection Manager saved passwords)

Remote Desktop Connection Manager is great for saving multiple connections and passwords, but once you save them, you can&see what they are in the UI. Here&how to find them. Find your RDG file (right click + properties if you don&know where it is) Open the xml in a text editor Copy the text from a ﹤password﹥ node inside a ﹤logonCredentials﹥ node (not a ﹤credentialsProfile﹥ node) Replace in in between quotes in the $PwdString variable below Verify the location of your RDCMan.exe (it&likely the same as below) Pick a folder for the destination of the copy and update the 2nd argument of Copy-Item Make fur the path for Import-Module is the same Save the script with a .ps1 extension Right click and Run with Powershell ______________________________________________________________________________________ $PwdString = "your password hash here" Copy-Item &Files (x86)MicrosoftRemote Desktop Connection ManagerRDCMan.exe&'C:RDPRDCMan.dll' Import-Module 'C:RDPRDCMan.dll' $EncryptionSettings = New-Object -TypeName RdcMan.EncryptionSettings [RdcMan.Encryption]::DecryptString($PwdString, $EncryptionSettings) Read-Host "Press any key to continue..."