Technical FAQ About PowerPoint Password Rescuer:

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:

1: Q: What is PowerPoint Password Rescuer and waht can it do for me?

A: PowerPoint Password Rescuer is a small but fast presentation file password recovery tool which can help recover lost or forgotten password for Microsoft PowerPoint presentation protected with a unknown password.

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

A: PowerPoint Password Rescuer supports all versions of Microsoft PowerPoint from version 97 to 2016. Any ppt/pptx file which was encrypted on PowerPoint 97-2016 can be decrypted by PowerPoint Password Rescuer.

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

A: PowerPoint Password Rescuer supports running on Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, server 2022/2019/2016/2012, 2008/2003/2000 (32-bit or 64-bit).

Hardware requirements:
1) 1 GHz processor (2.4 GHz is recommended);
2) 128 MB of RAM (1 GB is recommended);
3) 10 MB of free hard disk space.

4. Q: What is brute-force attack?

A: This attacking type will try all possible combinations of all kinds of character. You can choose this type of attacking only if you don't know what type of your PowerPoint file password is.

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

A: Brute-force with mask attack is useful when you remember a part of password. For example, you may remember the lenth or types if character of your PowerPoint file password. So you can specify the types of character combinations and the length range of the password on the software. Then the software will try all character combinations within the setup range. 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. 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 PowerPoint Password Rescuer will not interrupt other programs, so attacks will not decrease the performance of other running applications.
High priority means that PowerPoint Password Rescuer will use all available system resources. The performance of other applications will degrade but PowerPoint 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: Firstly, PowerPoint Password Rescuer trial version will fid out all characters of your password, but you can only view 3 or less characters of it. Only the full version can display all characters of the password you want to recover.
Secondly, we do not guarantee thorough technical support for users of the trial version. Purchasers of the full version of the program can receive guaranteed priority technical support.