Messenger Plus! is the most popular MSN plug-in, collecting together all the extras users could ask for into one program. It's certainly an excellent pack of tools which heavy Messenger users consider as essential and which certainly improves your IM experience. Over all these years it has been able to adapt to every new Messenger version, including the name change and the new interface design. In fact, Messenger Plus! is now seamlessly integrated into Windows Live Messenger 2011: the only way you can tell it's there is by the tiny button on the top right corner of the main interface.

The Messenger Plus! tools can be divided into several groups, depending on the aim they're made for: you get tools to improve your chats, format text, change Messenger's appearance with skins, customize fonts and manage chat logs, among others. Messenger Plus! also lets you password protect your Messenger and includes support for scripting, so that you can add your own features to the plug-in.

The list of improvements Messenger Plus! brings to Windows Live Messenger doesn't end here. Tabbed chat windows, custom status messages, quick texts for frequently used expressions are just some of the new features you’ll be able to enjoy with Messenger Plus!. It can take a while to tweak all these settings, but fortunately a useful after-install wizard makes the basic initial configuration a lot easier.

All in all, Messenger Plus! is probably the only plug-in you'll ever need, especially if you like customizing every single detail of your Messenger.

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MailPassword recovers all POP3 email logins and passwords stored in your computer by your email software. Virtually all email clients use password caching because it's very inconvenient to enter a password every time you get your mail. This means it is possible to find out a stored email password

The program is very easy to use - MailPassword offers you two options, a basic one, that should work for most email accounts, and one that requires you to enter your POP3 server details in order to get passwords that are proving more difficult. The second option is a little more difficult, but should work for all email POP3 email accounts and MailPassword talks you through it well.

If you've forgotten your email password and you don't know what to do, give MailPassword a try!

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When you run Password and Key Finder, you’ll see it is divided into two main apps: the Password Finder and the MS Key Revealer. The first one reveals all hidden passwords in online services, such as Hotmail, Yahoo!, Twitter, Facebook and Gmail, and also desktop tools like the Windows logon password.

The second app in Password and Key Finder is Ms Key Finder, helps you find the serial numbers for the software currently installed on your computer – though unfortunately it only works with Microsoft software.

Password and Key Finder features a nicely designed interface and is very easy to use. Besides the password revealing functionality, there’s really nothing more to it.

With Password and Key Finder you can easily find out forgotten passwords and misplaced serial numbers.

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If you've got multiple e-mail accounts then keeping track of what you are receiving can be an absolute nightmare involving multiple browsers and lots of confusion.

A far better solution is something like POP Peeper which is an easy to use email notifier that runs in Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on POP3, IMAP, Windows LiveMail, Yahoo, GMail, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. The fact that it supports so many webmail accounts makes this a really attractive app although in reality, you may find that it doesn't detect mail until considerably after it has arrived in your account, if at all - especially with Windows Live Mail. However, it does allow you to send e-mail directly from POP Peeper and use the address book to email your frequently used contacts. Messages can be viewed in both HTML and plain text although newsletters and other mail with heavy graphics won't display properly in plain text. One major bonus is that POP Peeper is so small that it can be can be run from a portable device and password protected which means that it's fairly secure and is a decent solution for anyone on the move a lot.

Although it doesn't give you full control over your e-mail accounts, and may not even work properly with all webmail accoutns, this is worth trying if you have multiple e-mail accounts.

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