Office Password Rescuer Technical FAQ:

1: Q:What's Office Password Rescuer? What can it do for me?

A: Office Password Rescuer is an all-in-one password recovery tool which contains five software: Word Password Rescuer, Excel Password Rescuer, Access Password Rescuer, PowerPoint Password Rescuer and Outlook Password Rescuer. it is among the most widely used software for recuperating lost or forgotten passwords for Ms Word, MS Excel, Microsoft PpowerPoint, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Outlook.It supports all Microsoft Office file types: Microsoft Word(*.doc,*. docx), Microsoft Excel(*.xls,*.xlsx), Microsoft PowerPoint(*.ppt,*. pptx), Microsoft Access(*.mdb,*.accdb), and Microsoft Outlook(*.pst).

2. Q:System Requirements for Office Password Rescuer?

A: Office Password Rescuer is compatible with all popular Windows system such as Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2019/2016/2012/2008/2003/2000(32-bit or 64-bit).
Main hardware requirements:

1 GHz processor (2.4 GHz is recommended);

128 MB of RAM (1 GB is recommended);

4 MB of free hard disk space.

3. Q:What is brute-force attack?

A: This attack will try all possible character combinations in the specific character range which you can select yourself to find out the matched password. 100% recovery rate in recovering any office file password.

4. Q:What is brute-force with mask attack?

A: This attack allows you to define the search range more accurately. Give the symbols you remembered, replace the unkown symbols with "?". Such as ac???ab. A Password Mask must be defined when you choose Mask Attack. If you partially know the password and confirm the character position, this Attacking method can help you find out the correct password easily.

5. Q:What’s "Character Set" on Office Password Rescuer?

A: It is only available to "Brute-force with Mask Attack" which allows you to select character range and instruct the program to search in, it also means restricting the search area so that it can shortten the recovery time. There are about four kinds of setting options.
a-z, 0-9,A-Z, -_?!@#$... : Predefined Passwords Ranges. If you cannot remember character kind of your password, Select this and it will try all character combinations for you.
User defined : You can define your own Character Set for the Brute-Force Attack. Check "User-defined". Select the Characters kind by yourself.
Start from : If you remember the beginning characters of the password, select it and type in the Character.
End at : If you remember the end characters of the password, select it and type in the Character.

6. Q:What is "Dictionary Attack"?

A: This is an efficient attack method for recoverring a lost password which is a name or a keyword. Most passwords used by living beings are based on a word or phrase. Performing a dictionary attack by attempting different combinations of cases and variations of words and characters before reverting to a comprehensive brute-force attack allows for considerate time savings shall the attack succeed.

7. Q:What is "Smart Attack"?

A: This Attack is an automatic attack and it is suitable for recovering an absolutely unknown password. It will try all possible characters combinations include all printable characters. If you choose this attacking method, character range and mask symbol cannot be defined, user can only define how long of the password in Lenth Option.

8. Q:What is the "Program Priority"?

A: Program Priority option allows you to control the allocation of processing resources on your computer. By default, all processes are at normal priority.
Idle priority means that Office Password Rescuer will not interrupt other programs, so attacks will not decrease the performance of other running applications.
High priority means that Office Password Rescuer will use all available system resources. The performance of other applications will degrade but Office Password Rescuer will work as fast as possible.

9. Q:What if I stop recovering the password?

A: The program will save the recovery process automatically. And it will run again following that point even if it was suddenly suspended. You can set the period in Auto-save Option. If you set it as 5 minutes, then the program will automatically save the process every 5 minutes. Select the check box "Save project every" to active it.

10. Q:What's the difference between the trial version and full version?

A: Office Password Rescuer free trial version allows you to recover a password which cantains less than 3 characters. If you want to 100% recover your password, please purchase the full version. By the way, we do not guarantee thorough technical support for users of the trial version unless purchasers.