Installed and reg. on Win 10 without any problems. I have a similar program ARCHPR by Elmsoft but i thought it would be interesting to compair the two programs to see how they compair. Cracking passwords can be a slow process depending on the length and complexity of the password and the method used, using the brute force method can take hours if not days.

One thing I noticed straight away is that there is no option to minimise the window while the program is running, if fact there are no options when using the dictionary attack method and the brute force method offers only a very limited number of options. There an option to save your progress, meaning that if you exit the program you would need to start from scratch again, ARCHPR does an auto-save every 5 minutes allowing you to pick up where you left off after quitting.

I created a rar file with a 7 character password (all lower case letters) and then set both Password Recovery Bundle and ARCHPR to the task of cracking the password using the dictionary attack method. ARCHPR manage to correctly identify the password in 1 hr 18min and 53 secs whilst Password Recovery Bundle was still attempting to crack it. I noticed that the user password and time elapsed fields on the GUI remained blank and the progress bar didn't fill. I did check with Task Manager that the program was actually running, which it was, just not displaying any progress.

After allowing the program to run for a tad over 3 hours and all fields and progress bar blank I got board waiting for it to finish I abandoned my efforts, it shouldn't take anywhere near this length of time to crack a simple password. Not worth the asking price, needs to offer more user options and the ability to save scan progress. Uninstalled.

DaveC  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+67)

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By coincidence, I just changed my Windows 7 (64 bit) log-in password and apparently wrote it down wrong, so I was delighted to see this giveaway. I downloaded, installed, launched, and registered it without any problems. Then I chose "Windows Password" and chose to burn a DVD. All appeared normal but the disc just kept grinding away and the burn process never ended. After over an hour, I cancelled it and now the DVD is unusable. This is quite disappointing.

Plutchok Jonathan  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+35)

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I'm too picky and distrustful to use a paid or free program of this kind. I prefer to use an open source program I can inspect to see how the program manipulates my data. Not for me thanks.
Be careful. As an alternative in SourceForge there are 35 open-source password-recovery programs available for free.

Luis  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+24)

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Downloaded and installed without a problem. Registered also OK.

There are options to recover passwords from the Windows system (like stored passwords in the browsers), and recover passwords from encrypted files.

I created some zip file with a password, and began to crack it. Of course the program took all available CPU, with "below normal" priority, so most of other programs were not affected.
Unfortunately, the progress bar is only analog one, so if you are performing brute-force attack on a long password, you don't see any visible progress for a long time.
When I deliberately listed only the letters I used for the password, it cracked 8-char long password in the ZIP file after about 90 seconds (ZIP encryption), and couldn't crack the password in the AES256-encrypted ZIP file in 10 minutes.
Unfortunately, there is no option to save the progress (as far I can tell), nor to split the job over multiple computers.

The program correctly decrypted my IM password, however it crashed during recovery locally cached passwords, and froze during recovery Excel password.

So for me it's a keeper, but there are much better programs for this job.

RafalS  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+19)

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When trying to just test with a password protected compressed file, all it does is it stalls Windows Explorer and quits. Combination tried the just downloaded and installed program, Windows 7 32-bit and a 7z -file using brute force option... which it probably cannot manage anyway. Uninstalling...

kpson  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+19)

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