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winspy - A tool to view windows properties in the system

Installation

Download it from https://www.catch22.net/software/winspy

What it does

Basically winspy allows us to  select and view the properties of any window in the system. WinSpy is based around the Spy++ utility that ships with Microsoft Visual Studio.

It allows us to retrieve passwords from password-edit controls.

Here an example:

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Another nice example:

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Here a list of all windows properties that it retrieves:

  • Window Class and Name.
  • Window procedure address.
  • All window styles and extended styles.
  • Window properties (set using the SetProp API call).
  • Complete Child and Sibling window relationships.
  • Scrollbar positional information.
  • Full window Class information.
  • Retrieve passwords from password-edit controls!
  • Edit window styles!
  • Alter window captions!
  • Show / Hide / Enable / Disable / Adjust any window in the system!
  • Massively improved user-interface!
  • View the complete system window hierarchy!
  • Multi-monitor support!
  • Now works correctly for all versions of Windows.
  • Tree hierarchy now groups by process.
Last update: 2023-05-02
Created: February 2, 2023 19:36:50