ZIP Password Rescuer Technical FAQ:

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

A: ZIP Password Rescuer is a professional password recovery tool which contains several powerful attacking methods for cracking any unknown ZIP file password fastly. It can help you recover lost or forgotten password for ZIP/WinZip/7Zip/PKZIP archives.

2. Q:What versions of WinZIP/ZIP does it support?

A: ZIP Password using the latest decryption technology to help you recover any strong password. It supports any version of ZIP, WinZip, 7Zip and PKZIP archives.

3. Q:What is the system and hardware requirements for ZIP Password Rescuer?

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

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 will try all possible characters combinations in the specified Range. You can select the range from Brute-force range options. The password recovery engine is highly optimized, thus short and simple password can be recovered immediately. ZIP Password Rescuer selects brute-force by default.

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" that it will instructs the program to try possible password which contains characters used in the password and restrict the search area. There are several types of range:
a-z, 0-9,A-Z, -_?!@#$... : Defined by the Predefined Passwords Ranges. Checking if the password contains these characters.
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, type in the Character.
End at : If you remember the end of the password characters type in the Character.

7. Q:What's "Dictionary Attack"?

A: It is an effective attack for you to recover lost password with a default dictionary in the program. The program will try every password in the dictionary. Besides, you can add your own dictionary to the program for saving the recovery time. The dictionary is just a text file with one word at a line; lines are separated with line breaks.

8. Q:What's "Smart Attack"?

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's the "Program Priority"?

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

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

A: When you stop the recovery process, ZIP Password Rescuer will save the recovery process automatically even if it was suddenly suspended. and it will resume the process from that point.

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 limitation of ZIP Password Rescuer trial version?

A: ZIP Password Rescuer trial version can recover any password by using all attacking methods on the program, 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.