Technical FAQ About Outlook Password Rescuer:

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:

1: Q: What is Outlook Password Rescuer?

A: Outlook Password Rescuer is one of the most popular password recovery software that it can recover lost or forgotten passwords for Microsoft Outlook(*pst) storage file when you are unable to open your password protected email in Outlook.

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

A: Outlook Password Rescuer updates will be released after Microsoft released Outlook new version. Now it is supporting almost all versions of Microsoft Outlook from version 97 to 2016.

3. Q: What is the system Requirements of Outlook Password Rescuer?

A: Outlook Password Rescuer is compatible with all versions of Windows OS: Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, server 2022/2019/2016/2012, 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.

4. Q: What is brute-force attack?

A: When you select Brute-force attack in recovering your Outlook password, the program will try all possible character combinations of any character type.

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

A: When you select mask attack in recovering your Outlook password, Outlook Password Rescuer will try character combinations from the character ranges you setup. When you remember a part of password that you can specify the types of character and the length range of the password, select the search range on the software and this will greatly reduce the password recovery time.

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.
Custom Character Set : You can define your own Character Set for the Brute-Force Attack. Check "Custom Character Set" and enter the Character with your own.
Prefix : If you remember the beginning of the password characters check it and enter the Character.
Suffix : If you remember the end of the password characters check it and enter the Character.

7. Q: What is "Dictionary Attack"?

A: It is an effective attack for you to recover lost password with a default dictionary in the program if your password is created with a frequently-used words or phrases. 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 is "Smart Mutations"?

A: Smart Mutations allows you to try combinations among passwords in the dictionary. If you want more character combinations, check "Smart Mutations" and choose a number for "Mutation Count". For example, if you select the dictionary file contains three words(ab,cd,12), then you choose 2 for "Mutation Count" in order to let the program mutate with these three sets, like ab, cd, 12, abab, abcd, ab12, cdab, cdcd, cd12, 12ab, 12cd, 1212 etc. Select a number in the "Max Password Length" for the possible maximum length of your password.

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 Outlook Password Rescuer will not interrupt other programs, so attacks will not decrease the performance of other running applications.
High priority means that Outlook Password Rescuer will use all available system resources. The performance of other applications will degrade but Outlook 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 last time process even if it suddenly suspended.

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

A: Outlook Password Rescuer free trial version can only recover 3 or less characters of password. If you need to fully recover your lost password of Outlook, please buy the full version.

We do not guarantee thorough technical support for users of the trial version. If you have purchased the full version of the program, you can receive guaranteed priority technical support at any time you need help.