Word Password Rescuer Technical FAQ:

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:

1: Q: What can Word Password Rescuer do for you?

A: Word Password Rescuer is an easy-to-use MS Word password recovery tool which can help you recover lost password of Microsoft Word document. It can be used to recover word file "Open" Password and remove "Edit" Password from the document.

2. Q: What types of Word document does it support?

A: Word Password Rescuer support working for all versions of Microsoft Word from version 97 to 2016. This means that it can be used to recover password for MS Word doc and docx file which were encrypted in Microsoft Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016, etc.

3. Q: What is the system requirements of Word Password Rescuer?

A: Word Password Rescuer can run perfectly on all versions of Windows Operating System such as: Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP and Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000 (32-bit or 64-bit), etc.

Hardware requirements: (It is supporting almost all types of computer with Windows OS.)

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: Brute-force attack is a classical method in searching for password. In Word Password Rescuer, brute-force mode will try all possible character combinations in the specified Range. The Range is defined by "Range" and "Length" Options. Instruct the program what characters have been used in the password. You can choose from all capital letters, all small letters, all digits, all special symbols and the space, or all printable (includes all of the above). Word Password Rescuer can particularly make its efficiency to the extreme.

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

A: This Attack is useful when you remember a part of Password. For example if you remember that length of your password was 5 characters and password begins from "A", you can define the mask "A????" and save the time by trying 4 symbols instead of 5. A Password Mask must be defined to use this Attack.

6. Q: What’s "Character Set"?

A: Character Set allows users to select character range or replace part of characters of your password so the program will ignore known character combinations. This will greatly reduces password recovery time. Note that it is only available in "Brute-force with Mask Attack" mode. See what character range you can set:
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. 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 Word Password Rescuer will not interrupt other programs, so attacks will not decrease the performance of other running applications.
High priority means that Word Password Rescuer will use all available system resources. The performance of other applications will degrade but Word 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: Word Password Rescuer free trial version can only work for 3 or less characters of your password. You can free download the software on our website and have a try in recovering a 3 characters password. If you need to fully recover a long password of your Word document, please purchase the full version.

We do not guarantee thorough technical support for users of the trial version. Only purchasers of the full version of the program can receive guaranteed priority technical support. Of course, you could contact us at any time if you need help in using both trial and full version.