Advanced ACT Password Recovery

Advanced ACT Password Recovery, or simply ACTPR, is a program to recover or replace lost or forgotten passwords to protected BLB, MUD and ADF files created in ACT! contact management software (from Symantec and Best Software). All versions of ACT! (up to ACT! 2006) are supported. The passwords are recovered (or removed) instantly.

Requirements :
· Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
· ACT! 2005/2006 installed (to change/remove password(s) to ACT! 2005/2006 files)
· about 400 kilobytes of free space on hard disk

To recover passwords to files created in older versions of ACT! (from Symantec), press Open file... button on toolbar and select Symantec ACT! menu item, then browse for *.blb or *.mud files you want to get the password(s) for; alternatively, you can drag ACT! file from Explorer and drop it into the ACTPR window). If the given file is corrupted, or used by another application, or no passwords are there – appropriate error message will be displayed. Otherwise, the program will print a list of all users that have the rights to access that file, along with there passwords and security levels. Here you can highlight the account you need, and press Copy password button at the bottom; password for selected account will be copied into the clipboard, so you can paste it into ACT using Ctrl+V or Shift+Ins button. That might be useful if password is not "printable", i.e. cannot be shown/entered using current character set or keyboard layout.

ACT! 2005 and 2006 (from Best Software) are based on Microsoft SQL Server Engine, and the encryption is much stronger there: passwords cannot be recovered instantly. However, they can be changed or removed. Press Open file..., select ACT! 2005/2006 menu item and browse for *.adf file. ACTPR will show the list of users that have access to the given files, and their security roles (examples: Administrator, Standard, Manager, Browse, Restricted). Highlight the one you want to change the password for, press Change password button, and enter new password for that user (empty one means that the password will be removed). Please note that in order to use that feature (browsing the list of users and changing there passwords), you should have ACT! 2005/2006 installed on the local machine, and the *.adf file should be also local.

Finally, ACT! (most versions including ACT! 2005/2006) may save the password (last one you used to open the file) in system Registry. ACTPR can extract and decrypt it from there: simply press the Check Registry button on program toolbar. If last password has been saved, it will be shown.

The latest version of ACTPR is always available at:
Home page URL : http://www.elcomsoft.com/actpr.html

Other password recovery products (for ZIP, RAR, ARJ and ACE archives, all versions of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Backup, Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Schedule+, Microsoft Project, VBA; Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3, Approach and Organizer; Adobe Acrobat PDF; Corel Paradox, WordPerfect and QuattroPro; Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks; Symantec ACT!; email clients such as TheBat!, Eudora, Pegasus etc; instant messengers; Windows 2000/XP/2003 Encrypting File System on NTFS; Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 user passwords; Windows PWL/RAS/dial-up/VPN/shares/asterisked passwords) are available from our web site at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html