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.