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Effective and powerful, Excel Password Recovery Key has minor disappointments: its manual and trial limitations. The utility performed well in our tests, finding simple passwords in seconds and showing good speeds when searching variants with the dictionary method. Unfortunately, trial-version limitations prevented us from estimating the speed of brute-force attacks. Since some searches may take a while, it's helpful to be able to set process priorities to minimize performance issues. The manual could do a better job explaining some of the program's advanced capabilities. We'd recommend Excel Password Recovery Key for anyone desperate to uncover lost or forgotten spreadsheet passwords.Publisher's Description
From Passware:
Excel Password Recovery Key finds passwords for MS Excel files (XLS). It works with all versions of Excel and provides instant recovery for all types of passwords, including workbook and worksheet passwords. Excel 2003, XP, 2K, and 97 file-open passwords are recovered using a combination of brute-force, Xieve, and dictionary attacks. All Excel 95 7.0, 5.0, and 4.0 passwords are instantly recovered. Excel Password Recovery Key is now capable of recovering passwords for files encrypted using additional cryptographic service providers (advanced Office XP protection technology). The program has support for multilingual passwords and introduces a redesigned user-friendly interface that enables both novice and pro users to handle recovery tasks easily. Features include a common-style toolbar, recovery-progress autosaving, and reports. The program also has online help and full install/uninstall support.
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"Worked great"
Version: Excel Password Recovery Key 6.3
Pros
Worked great. Quickly recovered long worksheet workbook & passwords.
Cons
None.
It did not try to send an email as some here have complained, but that may be because I went to the Passware website to get the current demo version. The one here is from 2004.Summary
I saw that the trial version here was 7 years old, so I followed the link to the Passware website and downloaded the trial there. Then I paid for a registered version. It took only a few seconds to get several long worksheet passwords, and the workbook structure passwords, on a file created in Excel 2010.
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"doesn't work & tried to send a silent email"
Version: Excel Password Recovery Key 6.3
Pros
nothing it is just a waste of download time
Cons
doesn't work and it tries to SPAM you
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"Fast & Effective"
Version: Excel Password Recovery Key 6.3
Pros
Fast and effective, even on relatively strong passwords. The first Excel file that I gave it had multiple sheets, only one of which was protected. It turned out to have a 15-character, apparently random password, which was recovered in about 6 seconds.
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Version: Excel Password Recovery Key 6.3
Pros
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Cons
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"Spy Ware"
Version: Excel Password Recovery Key 6.3
Summary
No only did it not see the password I had on my file that I forgot. It tried to send email from my computer. It tried to connect to the internet.
Why, because it's just spy ware!
