Excel Password Recovery

Stellar Phoenix Excel Password Recovery is an efficient password recovery tool to recover lost/forgotten passwords applied to 'Open' or 'Modify' an an MS Excel workbook. The software is loaded with a lots of remarkable features. Listed below are few of them.

 

• Recovers password encrypted for Excel workbooks using any encryption algorithm.
• Uses the 'Brute Force Attack' mechanism to ensure the password recovery with 100% success rate.
• Creates and uses an in-built dynamic dictionary that provides more precession in tracking the lost password.
• Provides various parameters that help narrow down the search for Excel password.
• Allows the option to save the password recovery log in a .txt file that can be opened in a text editor like Notepad.
• Recovers the password to open as well as the password to modify the MS Excel workbook.
• Recovers Excel password from workbooks created in MS Excel 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000
• Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

 

The salient features of this Excel password recovery software are:

• Supports Excel password recovery from various MS Excel versions.
• Recovers Excel passwords that have been encrypted using any encryption method.
• Provides different options to mask the password that needs to be recovered.
• Recovers both the 'Password to open' and 'Password to modify' passwords.
• Employs 'Brute Force Attack' technique to recover Excel password.
• Creates a dictionary of the already recovered passwords in the past, which is helps track the password quickly.
• Provides a log report that can be saved in a Text Editor.

 

Excel Password Recovery Software Details :

 

Stellar Phoenix Excel Password Recovery 1.0 uses different kinds of password tracking parameters to check and retrieve lost password. These parameters enable the software to work on a narrow sample space to find the password. Another striking and exclusive feature of this XLS password recovery utility is the use of a dictionary that is built by the software and stores the previously recovered passwords in it. This feature quickens the passwords recovery process by first using the passwords saved in the directory while recovering Excel password. If the passwords saved in this directory don't work, only then the software searches password by using various permutations of characters. The software interface has been divided into three sections that enable you to select the Excel file, define the password searching criteria, and a log section that shows details of the password recovery process. The three sections that aid Excel workbook password recovery are:

 

• Select File: This section helps you to select the Excel file that you want to recover the password for. Click the 'Select File' button to select the Excel file.
• This section allows you to specify the password search criterion. It gives you various options that eventually narrow the search by offering more precision in tracking the password, thereby also reducing the search time. This section has two tabs for specifying search criterion for recovering 'Password to open' and 'Password to modify'. Both these tabs have similar sub-sections, which include password length, mask, and character set.
  • Password Length: Define the minimum and maximum number of characters that the password may contain. The software will then search for the password by combining various characters between the specified character range. In this section, you can provide the password length for the 'password to open' as well as the 'password to modify'.
  • Mask: In this section, you can provide two types of character specifications. They are:
    • Starting characters: In this option, you can provide the initial character(s) of the password if you know or remember it somehow. For example, if you remember the first four characters of a password, let us say, 'Reindeer', then you can provide 'Rein' in this option. The software will then search for the combination of the remaining four characters starting with 'Rein'.
    • Mask characters: This option is particularly useful if you know the exact number of characters and/or the position of some of them in the password. You can provide the characters that you know place the remaining as '?'. For example, if you know the first four and the last character of the password 'Reindeer', then you can provide 'Rein???r' in this option. The software will then search for the left over characters using different password combination.
  • Character set: This section contains all the printable characters on your keyboard. If you have any idea about what all characters does the password contain, then you can select the type of list of characters. For example, if you are very sure that the password only has lower case characters then you should select the 'a-z' check box and so on.
• The third tab gives the status of the file and the password recovery process.

 

Apart from these three sections, the interface also comprises the 'Start' button, that when clicked starts the process of recovering Excel file password. The 'Process Dialog' box will be displayed that will display the scanning details. The Excel password utility allows to set recovery criterion for both password to open and modify. The passwords will be recovered and displayed in the 'Password Recovered' dialog box.

 

Stellar Phoenix Excel Password Recovery 1.0 software is available in two versions, Full and Demo. While both of these versions are similar in every feature, scanning technique, interface, etc, but the Demo version only recovers the first three characters of the Excel password. So, to recover the full Excel password you need to purchase the Full version and activate its license.

 

FAQ's On Excel Password Recovery

 

• What is the possibility that this software will be able to find out my Excel password?
• The software has recovered the password to open the Excel workbook but it has not recovered the password to modify the workbook. What should I do now?
• I have defined a password of five characters in my Excel workbook. But when I run the software, it shows searching for a password of nine characters. Why is it so?
• This software is taking too long to recover the password. Can I pause the Excel password recovery process and resume later?

 

What is the possibility that this software will be able to find out my Excel password?

This software is competent enough to find any password. However, the time depends entirely on how precisely you provide the masking options to track down the password.

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The software has recovered the password to open the Excel workbook but it has not recovered the password to modify the workbook. What should I do now?

You should now try with different set of options to look for the password to modify the Excel workbook.

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I have defined a password of five characters in my Excel workbook. But when I run the software, it shows searching for a password of nine characters. Why is it so?

You should set the maximum number of characters in the password in the 'Password to open' and 'Password to modify' options.

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This software is taking too long to recover the password. Can I pause the Excel password recovery process and resume later?

No, you cannot do this as this feature is not available in the current software version.

 

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