How does the Win8 system retrieve the account password through the web credentials?

After logging in to a website account on Win8, IE can help you remember your account password. Sometimes, after using automatic login, the password is forgotten without entering the password for a long time. However, the password saved in the browser is not displayed. The following small series will introduce the method of retrieving the account password through the web credentials.

The specific operation is as follows:

1. Press the Win+X shortcut on the keyboard to open the shortcut menu of the computer, and then from the shortcut menu, click to enter the control panel option;

2, in the open control panel interface, click to enter [User Account and Family Security] - [Credential Manager] - [web credentials];

3, in the new pop-up In the window that comes, you can see the web credentials saved by the browser. Click the button on the far right to see the account you saved on the web page and the password that is not displayed.

The above is Win8. How can the system retrieve the entire contents of the account password through the web credentials, and the password can be displayed in the web credentials, so that we can view the password saved in the IE browser.