Advanced Office Password Breaker, or AOPB for short, is a program to decrypt Microsoft® Word® and Excel® 97/2000 files that have file open protection set, as well as Word® and Excel® XP/2003 files with default (Office 97/2000 compatible) encryption – guaranteed, regardless the password length and complexity. This is being done by trying all possible encryption keys (instead of brute-force and dictionary attacks) and takes only about ten days on single Pentium 4 PC (or just three-four days on faster dual-CPU systems).

Requirements:
· Windows® 98, Windows® ME, Windows® NT 4.0, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP or Windows® Server 2003
· about 800 kilobytes of free space on hard disk

Note: to use Professional or Enterprise Edition of AOPB on a system with two or more CPUs, you should have Windows® NT, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP or Windows® Server 2003.

Microsoft Word® and Microsoft Excel® support three levels of document/workbook protection. The user who creates a document or workbook has read/write permission to a document and controls the protection level. The three levels of document protection are:

· File open protection. Word®/Excel® requires the user to enter a password to open a document.
· File modify protection. Word®/Excel® requires the user to enter a password to open the document with read/write permission. If the user clicks Read Only at the prompt, Word®/Excel® opens the document as read-only.
· Read-only recommended protection. Word® prompts the user to open the document as read-only. If the user clicks No at the prompt, Word®/Excel® opens the document with read/write permission, unless the document has other password protection.

In addition to protecting an entire Word® document, you can also protect specific elements (tracked changes, comments and forms) from unauthorized changes. For Excel®, you can protect a worksheet and the contents of locked cells, a structure of a workbook, windows in a workbook and cells or formulas on a worksheet, or items on a chart sheet. Finally, you can prevent users from viewing code by locking VBA project.

All protections but File open one are not secure at all – the password can be either recovered or removed (changed) instantly, and not supported by AOPB at all.

If File open protection is being used, Word® and Excel® encrypt password-protected documents by using the symmetric encryption routine known as RC4. In old versions of Microsoft Office (prior to Office 97 – i.e. Office 95, Office 6.0 etc), however, the implementation was weak and allowed to extract (decrypt) password as well; such files are also not supported by AOPB.

For Word® and Excel® 97/2000 files (and also Word®/Excel® XP/2003, if Office 97/2000 Compatible Encryption is used), File open protection is good enough; at least, password cannot be recovered instantly, and till now, the only methods to break them were brute-force and dictionary attacks. However, these methods fail if password is long enough and well selected (i.e. cannot be found in common dictionary) – it would take years to recover it. This is the only type of protection AOPB supports, by using a new method such as searching for encryption key instead of the password.

AOPB does not work with Word® and Excel® file if:

· The file does not use File open protection at all, but only File modify protection, or document/workbook protection, or VBA password.
· The file has been created in Office 95 (or older)
· The file has been created in Office XP, but uses any encryption other than Office 97/2000 Compatible one.
· The file has been created on a machine with user's locale setting in Regional Settings in Control Panel is set to French (Standard). This is just because strong encryption such as RC4 is banned in France, and Office 97/2000/XP can use only old/weak encryption there.

Instead of AOPB, you should use Advanced Office Password Recovery (that supports all the types listed above, but doesn't provide 100% recovery rate for File open protection on brute-force and dictionary attacks) instead. AOPB works only with Word®/Excel® 97/2000 (and Word®/Excel® XP/2003 if default, Office 97/2000 Compatible Encryption is used) files, encrypted with password for opening.

As noted above, Word®/Excel® 97/2000 (and Word®/Excel® XP in Office 97/2000 Compatible mode, which is the default), encrypt files using RC4 encryption routine, if File open protection is used. The simplest way to break the password is running brute-force and dictionary attacks; however, these methods work well only on short and simple passwords only. But if, for example, the password is 10 characters long and contain both small letters, capital letters and digits – obviously, you will not find it in any dictionary; and for brute-force attack, the appropriate software will have to try the following number of possible passwords:

(26 + 26 + 10) ^ 10 = 839,299,365,868,340,224

Even assuming that modern PCs with 4 processors can test as much as about a million passwords per second, it will still take more than 26614 years to test them all. Well, only 13307 years in average, but still too much.

This program, AOPB, does not recover the password at all. Because of U.S. crypto export regulations, the key length in RC4 algorithm used for encrypting the document is only 40 bits, and that means that the total number of possible encryption keys is:

2 ^ 40 = 1,099,511,627,776

So instead of testing all possible passwords, AOPB test all possible encryption keys. And once the key is found, it decrypts the document, so the password is no longer required to open it. Decryption is still not instant, but recovery time is very reasonable (usually, a few days). Moreover, this method provides 100% success rate regardless the password length. For example, if the speed is one million passwords per second (as for Athlon XP 1800+), the program will work about 305 hours or about 13 days – and this is maximum.

If you have Start the attack immediately after selecting document option enabled (see Options), this is all you have to do – the attack will be started with default parameters (sufficient for most cases), and now just wait till the key will be found (depending on the speed of your CPU, it may take from a few days and up to two weeks).

Please note that you can interrupt the attack at any time simply by pressing the Stop button. During the attack, the program saves (on a regular basis) intermediate information into the status file (with bsf extension). You can also save this file yourself at any point (using Save button on toolbar), or open previously saved file using Open button (instead of opening Word® or Excel® file here).

If Start the attack immediately after selecting document option is not checked, the parameters will be also set to default values, but you can change them prior to starting the attack. First, you can select an appropriate range. The whole key range (1,099,511,627,776 as defined above) is divided into 65,536 blocks, with 16,777,216 keys in every block. So Start from and End at fields may contain values from 0 to 65535; if you're just starting the attack, select minimum and maximum, accordingly. At the right of these fields, there are small buttons that allow selecting the whole range, or first/second half, or one third – this may help if you split the task across two or three computers. Next, you can select an alternatename for autosave file (with bsf extension).

Now press Start button on the toolbar, and the program will work till it find the encryption key or press the Stop button (you can do that at any time; the Start from field will be automatically set to the number of the current block). During the attack, the program shows some statistics – current block, average speed (in keys per second), elapsed time and estimated time.

Here we have the total number of keys tested, elapsed time, average speed in keys per second, and (the most important) the encryption key itself. You can press Save button so text file with all that information will be created:

Advanced Office Password Breaker statistics:
Encrypted document: C:\My Documents\report.doc
Total keys: 85 095 424
Total time: 33s
Average speed: 2 515 532
Encryption key: [ SH8ZKA8Q2W38F ]

Or just press the Decrypt button to save the decrypted (Word® or Excel®) file (you will be prompted for file name). That file will not have File Open protection at all, i.e. Word®/Excel® will open it without any problems.

Note: if AOPB already found the encryption key for particular file but you try to start the attack once again (with any settings) on the same computer, you will be informed about that, and the program will ask you would you like to decrypt the file immediately (if yes, the same window as mentioned above will be shown), or start the attack ones again anyway (though there should not be any reason doing that, except for testing purposes). This is just because AOPB remembers all the keys it has found by storing them in the Windows Registry on your computer. So if you have successfully completed an attack using the trial version of AOPB but have not decrypted the file due to trial version limitations, you will be able to do that just after purchasing the full version and receiving the registration code.

Please also note that if you have two or more documents protected with the same password, their encryption keys are different anyway, because they depend on document-specific information. That means that once the key is found, it can be used for decrypting this particular document only.

Use code optimized for (Non-MMX processors / Intel PII/PIII/Celeron / AMD Athlon / Intel P4 SSE2): force AOPB to use the code specially optimized for the given CPUs. The program detects your CPU and tries to select the proper code automatically, but you may want to play with that option if you've got any other CPU: press Detect button at the right of this option to get accurate benchmark.

Use XX CPU(s): if you have more than one CPU installed in your sustem (Pentium Xeon or Athlon MP), AOPB (registered Professional or Enterprise edition only, see Registration for details) can use them all – simply select the appropriate number of CPUs from the combo box. Please note, however, that if you have Pentium 4 processor(s) with HyperThreading (HT) technology enabled, if is recommended to select the number of "physical", not "virtual" CPUs. For example, if you there are two Pentium 4 Xeon processors on the motherboard, and HT is enabled in BIOS (so your operating system can see four processors), AOPB will work slower if you select 4 CPUs in this option; instead, select only 2 CPUs. Please also see the note for the next option.

Use affinity mask: check this option if your system have CPUs with HT support, such as Pentium 4 3,04 GHz and above, or Pentium 4 Xeon. Otherwise, the AOPB speed will be lower than expected. This option does not affect the program performance if your processor(s) does not support HyperThreading.

Priority (Idle / Normal / High): if you want to start AOPB as a "background" process, which will work only when the CPU is in an idle state, you may select Idle. If you want to increase performance, select Normal, but be aware that this will decrease the performance of all other applications running on your computer. If you select High, the program will try to use as many resources as possible (not recommended).

Auto-save every XX min: the program periodically saves all information displayed in the status window into the bsf-file (the path to that file is selected on main program screen) according to the interval selected.

Update state every XX ms: allows to set an interval (in milliseconds) between status window updates, showing the current block number, recovery speed, elapsed time and estimated time. The default is 2000 (a reasonable value). By selecting the higher value (5000, for example), you can get slightly better recovery speed.

Minimize to tray: if this option is enabled, the program window will disappear from the Windows desktop when you press the "minimize" button in the top-right corner of the window (or you select an appropriate item in the system menu). The small icon will be created in the "tray" area of the task bar (near the system clock). Just double-click on that icon to restore the window.

Start the attack immediately after selecting document: if enabled, AOPB will start searching for document encryption key right after opening the document (if supported). Otherwise, you will have press Start button yourself (probably after selecting the key range, changing options etc).

Register: press this button to register your copy of AOPB (if you've got the registration code already, of course). If you've already registered AOPB, this button appears as Upgrade, allowing you to register the program using another code – for example, to move from Standard to Professional Edition. See Registration for details.

Check for updates: the program connects to AOPB web site to get information about the latest version of the program available for downloading.

You can execute the program with command line parameters, like:

aopb.exe [options]

Where the options are:

/minimize OR /m
Minimize the program after starting the attack

/dontstart OR /ds
Don't start the attack, just load/set the parameters from filename

The only mandatory parameter is filename. This is the name of bsf-file that stores the name of attacked Word® or Excel® file, starting block, and block to end at. To create such file, just open Word®/Excel® file in AOPB, select the block range, and press Save button on the toolbar (without starting the attack); look at Searching for encryption key for details. Or, if you already had the attack running for some time, you can use the auto-save file.


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Advanced IE (Internet Explorer) Password Recovery (or simply AIEPR) is a program to Recover passwords to web sites saved in Microsoft Internet Explorer (in local password list), as well as AutoComplete strings (form fields). It can also reset Content Advisor Passwords. IE versions from 3 to 6 are supported.

Requirements :
•Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
•about 1 megabyte of free space on hard disk
•Microsoft Internet Explorer (3/4/5/6)

URL: just the address of the site. Please note that it is NOT the full URL, but just the “root” of the site; the actual URL is not saved in the system at all, and so it cannot be retrieved.

Page Title: actually, it is a Realm that is being set by the server. For FTP sites, it is always empty; for web sites it is typically the title of password-protected page, or sometimes the name of HTML file.

Login: just what it says; the name

Password: the password (for the user shown in Login).

When any of the passwords is selected (highlighted), you can use the buttons at the bottom of that window:

Open location: shows pop-up menu with the type of the connection (FTP, HTTP or HTTPS). Select an appropriate one, and Internet Explorer will go to that page, applying login and password automatically. Please note that sometimes it doesn’t work (due to the server problems), so if you fail, type the URL and supply login and password (when prompted) manually.

Copy to Clipboard: copies selected password to the Clipboard; press Ctrl-V to paste it where needed.

Save to text file...: saves the list of all passwords (together with URL and logins) to specified file.

Microsoft Internet Explorer includes Content Advisor that helps to control the Internet content that can be viewed on your computer. To enable it, select Tools | Internet Options, go to Content tab, and press Enable; you will be prompted for supervisor password. Now you can press the Settings button to select ratings, approve or disapprove specific sites, and change the password itself.

If you forgot the supervisor password to Content Advisor, it cannot be recovered (because it is not saved at all, just hashed), but AIEPR allows to remove or change it. Press Advisor button on toolbar.

The Current Content Advisor Password field should be shown as . Now you can change the password to your own one, or just delete it. If you want to be able to restore the old password, enable the Save old password option (and use Restore Saved Password later, when/if needed). Once you have the new password, you can go to Content Advisor and disable it completely, or just change its settings.

Please note that the password should be changed and deleted when Internet Explorer is not running; also, in some cases you will have to restart your computer for the changes to take effect.


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This program has been designed for recovering the lost passwords for the documents/files created all versions of Microsoft Excel: password to open, password to modify, document protection password. Multilingual passwords can be recovered, too. Most of the passwords for Excel documents and files are not secure and can be recovered (or removed, or changed) instantly: all passwords for Excel 95 (and older: 4.0, 5.0, 6.0) files, and all passwords except one to open for Excel 97/2000 files.

The program is compatible with all international (non-English) versions of MS Office. Write protection and workbook/worksheet protection passwords are being recovered (or removed) instantly. However, “password to open” in Office 97/2000 is encrypted with a very strong algorithm and requires time-consuming brute-force or dictionary attacks to be performed; the success/recovery rate is about 80-85%, but if the password is long (8+ characters) and complex, it cannot be recovered at all (in a reasonable time). MS Office XP files are also supported, but “password to open” can be recovered only if “compatible” (with Office 95 or Office 97/2000) encryption has been used; for files protected using CSP (Cryptographic Service Provider) all passwords but “password to open” are supported.

Simply selection the file you want to recover the password(s) for. Press the Load Excel document into the project button and select an appropriate file (or press on a small arrow at the right to load a recent file you have been working with recently); file format will be recognized automatically with corresponding message in the Status window; if the specified file format is not supported by AE2000PR, or it's corrupted, or used by another application – appropriate error message will be displayed. In most cases, the password will be decrypted instantly

Requirements :
Windows 95 (any version), Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP running on Pentium CPU
8 megabytes of RAM
about 1,5 megabytes of hard disk space

When you assign the “open” password to your Excel 97/2000 document (so the user will have to enter it to open the file), Microsoft Office encrypts the document using relatively complicated algorythm (without storing the password itself inside the file), so it is impossible to retrieve it at all. However, in most cases AE2000PR can recover the lost password using the brute-force and dictionary attacks. For the "brute-force" attack, you have to set up the password length (it is limited to 15 characters) and password range (which, by the way, can include a national symbols).
Don’t expect to recover long (8+ characters) and complex passwords in a reasonable time, though. If the Excel 97/2000 document you've opened has been created on a machine with French regional settings, the password will be recovered instantly, i.e. without the brute-force – exactly as for documents created in older version of Excel. The program simply displays the passwords in a message box, and also writes them to the log window.

If you need to recover the “open” password for Excel 97/2000 document, you have to create a project first. Project file contains all information about the source file, selected options and character set. It is based on the Excel document file. When the program starts, it creates a new project automatically. Also, you can create a project by pressing the Create a new project button or selecting the Project > New menu item.

When the file is loaded, you can save your project -- all the changes you've made will be reflected in the project file; the name for the project is selected automatically based on the name of the file; if you want to give an alternative name – use Project | Save as... menu item. If you don't want to change the name, just use the Save project button or Project | Save menu item.

Brute-force or dictionary attack. Brute-force, Mask and Dictionary attacks are available. A brute-force attack will try all possible passwords in specified range; if you remember a part of password, you can use a brute-force with mask attack. A dictionary attack verifies the words stored in specified dictionary file. The dictionary is just the text (ASCII file) with one work at a line; the lines are separated with line breaks. A dictionary attack is faster, and so we recommend to run it first; only if it fails, perform a brute-force attack.

In Excel 97/2000 documents, passwords may contain the following characters: latin letters (both small and capital), digits, special symbols (like @, #, $ etc) and national languages symbols. You can select these ranges separately, or define your own password range. To define your own range, check the box Custom charset, press the Custom charset… button, and enter all characters you think the password may consist of. You can load, save and insert your defined character sets, using appropriate buttons in User defined charset dialog.

The special characters are:
!@#$%^&*()_+-=<>,./?[]{}~:;`'|"\

This option may help, for example, if you know the first character(s) of the password. For example, if you're sure that the small letters have been used (from 'a' to 'z'), the length is 5, and the password definitely starts with 'k', than type 'kaaaa' here. Please also note, that if you press the Stop button when AE2000PR is working, the program writes the current password to this window (Start from password). It can be used later to restart the program from the same point.

Please note that the program verifies the passwords according to the following character order:

• CAPITAL letters: 'A'..'Z'
• the space
• small letters: 'a'..'z')
• digits: '0'..'9'
• special characters: !@#$%^&*()_+-=<>,./?[]{}~:;`'|"\

If you already know some characters in the password, you can specify the mask to decrease the total number of passwords to be verified. At the moment, you can set the mask only for fixed-length passwords, but doing this can still help.

For example, you know that the password contains 8 characters, starts with ‘x’, and ends with ‘99’; the other symbols are small or capital letters. So, the mask to be set is “x?????99”, and the charset has to be set to All caps and All small. With such options, the total number of the passwords that AE2000PR will try will be the same as if you’re working with 5-character passwords which don’t contain digits; it is much less than if the length were set to 8 and the All Printable option were selected. In the above example, the ‘?’ chars indicate the unknown symbols.

If you know that the password contains an occurrence of the mask character ‘?’, you can choose a different mask character to avoid having one character, ‘?’, represent both an unknown pattern position and a known character. In this case, you could change the mask symbol from ‘?’ to, for example, ‘#’ or ‘*’, and use a mask pattern of "x######?" (for mask symbol '#') or "x******?" (for mask symbol '*').

This is one of the most important options affecting checking time. You can check all 4-character (and shorter) passwords in a few minutes; but for longer passwords, you have to have patience and/or some knowledge about the password (including the character set which has been used, or even better – the mask).

The minimum length cannot be set to a value greater than maximum length, of course.

If the minimum and maximum lengths are not the same, the program tries the shorter passwords first. For example, if you set minimum=3 and maximum=7, the program will start from 3-character passwords, then try 4-character ones and so on -- up to 7. While AE2000PR is running, it shows the current password length, as well as the current password, average speed, elapsed and remaining time, and total and processed number of passwords (Program status). All of this information except average speed and elapsed time, which are global, is related only to the current length.

Simply select the desired dictionary file here. In that attack, the program will try all words from it as passwords for the selected document. It really helps when the password has some meaning, i.e. the whole word. You can select an option Smart mutations or Try all possible upper/lower case combinations – it may really help if you're not sure about the register the password has been typed in. For example, let's assume that the next word in dictionary is «PASSword» (the case, actually, doesn't matter here). With the second option enabled, the program will just try all possible combinations, like:

password
passworD
passwoRd
passwoRD
passwOrd
…
PASSWORd
PASSWORD

However, checking all such combinations takes a lot of time: in the example above, the program will check 2^8 words (i.e. 256) instead of one. With smart mutations, you can eliminate a number of “virtually impossible” combinations, and here are all the words which will be checked:


PASSword (as is)
passWORD (reversed)
password (all lower case)
PASSWORD (all upper case)
Password (first uppercase, rest lowercase)
pASSWORD (first lower case, rest uppercase)
PaSSWoRD (elite: vowels in lc, others in uc)
pAsswOrd (noelite)
PaSsWoRd (alt/1)
pAsSwOrD (alt/2)
So, it makes only 10 combinations for each word.

The Start line # option allows you to start an attack from a given line (in dictionary); if you’ll interrupt the attack, the “current” line number will be written there (and saved to the project file, of course).

If you'd like AE2000PR to save its state periodically, please check the appropriate option, and select the time (in minutes) between saves. If you do that, AE2000PR will periodically update a project file – exactly as if you press the Save project button yourself. Even if your computer stops responding (or if power fails), you'll be able to restore breaking the password from the last saved state. Enabling this option is strongly recommended.

If you'll select the Minimize to tray option, the program will hide itself from the screen when being minimized (so you will not see an appropriate button on Windows toolbar), but small icon will be created in the tray (near the system tray). Double-click on it to restore.

By disabling the Prompt if project was changed option, you instruct AE2000PR not to display the messages like "The project has been changed. Save?", when you've changed some options and open an another project, or creating a new one.

The Progress bar update interval option allows you to set how often the program will update the progress bar and display the password which is currently verified. Higher value will give you slightly better speed; the recommended one is 500 (milliseconds). If the interval is set to 0, the progress bar will not be updated at all (but you still will be able to stop the process, of course, and resume from that point later).

Log file option instructs the program to write all messages (the same as in Status window) to the ae2000pr.log file – for future analysis.

Just press the Calculate button to get the speed of your computer on Excel 97/2000 “open” password recovery. Having that figure, you can estimate the time you’ll need to recover the password (by dividing the total number of passwords to that speed). And the total number of passwords is just the number of characters in selected character set in a power of password length.

The latest version of AE2000PR is always available from our web page at http://www.elcomsoft.com. Other password recovery products (for ZIP, ARJ, RAR and ACE archives; all Microsoft Office components and some other Microsoft software; Lotus Organizer, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus ExcelPro, Lotus Approach; Symantec Act!, Borland/Corel Paradox, Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks, Mirabilis/AOL ICQ; Adobe Acrobat PDF, Adobe Acrobat eBooks) are available from our site at http://www.elcomsoft.com.

One really effective dictionary is included into AE2000PR distribution: english.dic (about 250,000 words). Some other very good ones are available at:

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Forgot your password for Microsoft Access 95/97 or Access 2000 database? Don't worry, this utility can recover it in less than a second. Besides, it can remove the password protection from the database, and change the password to another one. This program (Advanced Access Password Recovery, or simply ACPR) can be used to recover your lost password for Microsoft Access 95/97/2000 database. In addition, it can remove the password from the database, or change it to another (your) one (available for Access 95/97 databases only).

The program is a GUI application; you can run it bu just selecting the "Advanced Access Password Recovery" menu item from the appropriate program group created during installation. Alternatively, you can double-click on "acpr.exe" in the folder you've installed ACPR to. The main program window is quite simple, and contains just a few buttons, status Window, and an option (the option will be explained later).

To open the Access database for password recovering, press the "Open file..." button (the left one). If the file you select is a valid password-protected Access 95/97 database, the following information will be displayed in the status window:

Trying to open a source file test.mdb ...
File test.mdb successfully opened (Access 95/97)
Found the password: 'Test' (without quotes; copied to the Clipboard)
Password in hex: 54 65 73 74
Now you can change or disable the password

Please note that unregistered version shown only first three letters of the password, and the other ones (4th and up) are replaced with '#' characters (the length of the password is correct, however); password in hex is not shown at all. To see the complete password (in both forms), please consider purchasing the full version.

If the file is not a database, or has been created using older version of Access (2.0), or doesn't have the password at all, an appropriate message will be displayed. If the password is recovered and the database has been crated in Access 95/97 (but not Access 2000), the next two buttons become available (in registered version): "Delete password" and "Change password". The first one just removes the protection from the given database; and the second ones allows to change the password to any one of your choice. Just note that if the file is read-only or on the read-only disk, the changes will not be done (you'll see the error message); just copy that file to another location, and clear the read-only attribute (if needed).

Caution: please use these features (change and delete the password) with a GREAT care! If ACPR has shown some "unusual" characters in the password (something other than latin letters, digits and special chars like @,$,% etc), it may mean that the database is corrupted. Please be sure that the option "Backup source file" is enabled, and don't delete the original file (backup -- with the .bak extension), until you'll see that database can be opened without any problems in MS Access! If you'll get any troubles with the newdatabase (without the password, or with your new one), you'll have a chance to rollback the changes.

ACPR recognize most of such databases successfully (and displays an appropriate message), but anyway -- if you see that the password looks really strange (conains some funny ASCII characters etc), be careful!

This program is distributed as shareware (look at "license.txt" for details). Being unregistered, it shows only first three chars of the database password (the other chars are replaced with '#' characters), and doesn't allow to change and remove the password. After you register (look at "order.txt" for details), we'll send you your personal registration code. To enter it into the program, just press the "Register" button on the main screen; the program will display the small window dialog asking you to enter the code. If the code is correct, ACPR shows the message that it is registered now, and so since than will show all characters of the password, and allow to change and delete the passwords.

Please note that your registration will be valid for all future versions of ACPR, it means, that they will be free for you.

Program Description:
Retrieves the password for MS Access 95/97/2000 database
Target OS:
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000
Software type:
Shareware ($30 for personal license, $60 for business license)



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This new version the popular ActMon Password Recovery software allows users to decrypt and display passwords stored behind the asterisks on Windows XP systems (as well as all other Windows versions).

ActMon Password Recovery XP is the first tool of its kind that works automatically on Web pages, Windows 9x/NT and Windows 2000/XP systems.

Windows systems allow a convenient storage of frequently used passwords, such as the password of your dial-in ISP or FTP connection. However, since you no longer enter the saved password manually, you tend to forget them. What are you to do when you need to know one of the saved passwords? The password is staring right at you, but is hiding behind a row of "*****" asterisks.

For 9x and NT users the solution was to use a password recovery utility that displayed the passwords inside the box. But as many users upgrade to Windows XP they realize that Microsoft changed the security of the password boxes and all old password recovery tools fail on Windows XP. But with the new version of ActMon Password Recovery, users can reveal their forgotten passwords on XP and Windows 2000 as easily as on Windows 98 or Windows ME.

Introduction

This new version the popular ActMon Password Recovery software allows users to decrypt and display passwords stored behind the asterisks on Windows XP systems (as well as all other Windows versions).

ActMon Password Recovery XP is the first tool of its kind that works automatically on Web pages, Windows 9x/NT and Windows 2000/XP systems.

Windows systems allow a convenient storage of frequently used passwords, such as the password of your dial-in ISP or FTP connection. However, since you no longer enter the saved password manually, you tend to forget them. What are you to do when you need to know one of the saved passwords? The password is staring right at you, but is hiding behind a row of "*****" asterisks.

For 9x and NT users the solution was to use a password recovery utility that displayed the passwords inside the box. But as many users upgrade to Windows XP they realize that Microsoft changed the security of the password boxes and all old password recovery tools fail on Windows XP. But with the new version of ActMon Password Recovery, users can reveal their forgotten passwords on XP and Windows 2000 as easily as on Windows 98 or Windows ME.

Screenshot: ActMon Password Recovery XP just revealed an Outlook Express email password.

Step-by-Step Guide

ActMon Password Recovery XP is easy to use:

A. Preparation:

1. Open the application window that contains the password you want to read (this must be a password that is hidden behind the "*******" asterisks).
2. If you want to recover WEB passwords, make sure that you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or better) to display the web page with the hidden password(s).
3. Start the "ActMon Password Recovery XP" tool.

B. Password Recovery:

1. Click with your LEFT mouse button on the "KEY" ICON. Your mouse cursor is changed to a "KEY" cursor.
2. Now, KEEP THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON PRESSED DOWN and drag the mouse cursor to the window that contains the password field ("*****") you want to read. You must move the yellow search frame towards the password field until it turns RED.
3. Once the cursor is on the window that contains the "*****" password field, the search frame turns RED and ActMon Password Recovery XP displays the password field in the box. Web passwords are displayed in a small pop-up window.

Limitations: This utility works well with most password screens you will encounter on a MS Windows system, such as the password fields on the ISP dial-up dialog, within CuteFTP or Outlook Express. However, it does not work with applications that do not actually store the password "behind" the asterisks e.g. the Windows NT User Manager. The standard password recovery works on Win 95, 98, ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP (all Editions). The WEB password recovery is designed for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or better) and works on all Windows platforms.

ActMon Monitoring PRO EDITION contains all the features of the HOME Edition plus the features you need in a professional environment: Flexible network functions allow you to send and receive reports via the Internet or the corporate LAN. It contains advanced setup and reporting functions and is prepared for remote deployment inside the local network. ActMon Monitoring PRO is employed frequently by small businesses, "Fortune 500" companies, schools, universities and the military alike.

ActMon Monitoring HOME EDITION is designed for the use on a stand-alone PC, e. g. for parental control or for recording your own work for later reference. ActMon Monitoring HOME is the best choice for parents who wish to monitor what their children are doing online. It is an excellent alternative to standard filtering and blocking software.

Windows systems allow a convenient storage of frequently used passwords, such as the passwords in Outlook Express email or for a FTP connection. However, since you no longer enter the saved password manually, you tend to forget them. What are you to do when you need to know one of the saved passwords? The password is staring right at you, but is hiding behind a row of "*****" asterisks.
For 9x and NT users the solution was to use a password recovery utility that displayed the passwords inside the box. But as many users upgrade to Windows XP they realize that Microsoft changed the security of the password boxes and all old password recovery tools fail on Windows XP. But with the new iOpus Password Recovery users can reveal their forgotten passwords on XP and Windows 2000 as easily as on Windows 98 or Windows ME.


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Access Password Recovery Genie is a program to recover passwords for MS Access databases.

Features
All versions of MS Access are supported (including Access 2003)
State of the art password recovery engine - all passwords are recovered instantly
Recovers database passwords
Recovers user-level security accounts and passwords
Multilingual passwords are supported
Full install/uninstall support

Browse (Ctrl+O) for the file to start recovery.Then Access Password Recovery Genie will recovers the password.
Access Password Recovery Genie support Access97,Access2000,Access XP!

Note! Before you register, make sure you have the latest version of the software. The latest version is always can be downloaded from the following web page:

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