PowerPoint Password Rescuer Technical FAQ:

1: Q:What is PowerPoint Password Rescuer? What can it do for me?

A: PowerPoint Password Rescuer is a program which enables you to have access to a PowerPoint file which is protected by a password. It can easily recover lost password for Microsoft PowerPoint file(*.ppt, *.pptx) password..

2. Q:What versions of PowerPoint does it support?

A: PowerPoint Password Rescuer latest version can be used to recover ppt/pptx file password for all versions of Microsoft PowerPoint from version 97, XP, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016.

3. Q:What is the system and hardware requirements of PowerPoint Password Rescuer?

A: PowerPoint Password Rescuer is compatible with Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000(32-bit or 64-bit) even the newest Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012;

Computer 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.

4. Q:What is brute-force attack?

A: This attack is suitable for recovering a password which you know its ingredient. It will try all possible characters combinations in the specified Range. You can select the range from "Range" and "Lenth" options under Brute-force mode. The password recovery engine is highly optimized, thus short and simple password can be recovered immediately.

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

A: This is suitable for recovering a partially known password. If you remembered the password partially you can set a mask with the mask symbols for those parts you can't remember, it will only try the characters combinations which contain your remembered characters and help you effectively shorten the recovery time.(High Recommended) You can 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

6. Q:What’s "Character Set"?

A: It is only available to "Brute-force with Mask Attack" which instructs the program what characters have been used in the password and restrict the search area.
a-z, 0-9,A-Z, -_?!@#$... : Defined by the Predefined Passwords Ranges. If the password contains these, check it.
User-defined : You can define your own Character Set for the Brute-Force Attack. Check "User-defined" and enter the Character with your own.
Start from : If you remember the beginning of the password characters check it and enter the Character.
End at : If you remember the end of the password characters check it and enter the Character.

7. Q:What is "Dictionary Attack"?

A: This Attack verifies the words stored in the specified Dictionary File. The dictionary is just a text file with one word at a line; lines are separated with line breaks. You can set additional Dictionary Options for this Attack. This attack is highly recommended as it offers a smarter access to the password recovery. We has supplied a small Dictionary File containing common English words. You can also create a dictionary by listing your character sets that you frequently used to let the program base on when seeking passwords, such as your name, birthplace, birthday, etc. If so, the search range will be greatly reduced and it is bound to save time for the process.

8. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

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

A: All passwords are recovered, but you can only view 3 or less characters of password. We do not guarantee thorough technical support for users of the trial version. Purchasers of the full version of the program can receive guaranteed priority technical support.