RAR Password Rescuer Technical FAQ:

1: Q:What is RAR Password Rescuer?

A: RAR Password Rescuer is a rar file password recovery software, which can recover lost or forgotten password for RAR archives which was created by WinRAR, RAR or other archives software.

2. Q:What versions of RAR/WinRAR does it support?

A: RAR Password Rescuer support all versions of WinRAR, RAR(2.XX, 3.XX, 4.XX etc.) or other archives software.

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

A: RAR Password Rescuer can run on Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2019/2016/2012/2008/2003/2000(32-bit or 64-bit) even the newest Windows 10;

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 on RAR Password Rescuer?

A: This Attack will try all possible character combinations including all printable symbols:
· All caps latin(A-Z): ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
· All small latin(a-z): abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
· All digits(0-9): 0123456789
· All special symbols: !@#$%^&*()_+-=<>,./?[]{}~:;`'|"\
· Space
You can choose any of them to reduce the number of combinations so that the recovery time will be less.

5. Q:What is brute-force with mask attack on RAR Password Rescuer?

A: 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.

You need to 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" on RAR Password Rescuer?

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" on RAR Password Rescuer?

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 seeking scope will be largely reduced and it is bound to save time for the process.

8. Q:What is "Smart Attack" on RAR Password Rescuer?

A: This Attack is an automatic attack. 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 means that you can control the allocation of processing resources on your computer. All processes are at normal priority by default. There are two options for you.
Idle priority means that RAR Password Rescuer other programs on your computer can run at the same time, so attacks will not decrease the performance of other running applications.
High priority means that RAR Password Rescuer will use all available system resources. The performance of other applications will degrade but RAR Password Rescuer will work as fast as possible.

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

A: When you stop recovering the password, RAR Password Rescuer will save all setting and progress 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: RAR Password Rescuer trial version can recover any password by using all attacking methods on the program, but it can only recover a rar file password which was made up with three or less characters of password.
However, 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.