Advanced Backup Password Recovery: README
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Contents
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  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Requirements
  Usage
  Technical support
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Where to get the latest version


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
  abpr.zip
Program Name:
  Advanced Backup Password Recovery
Program Version:
  1.0
Program Release Date:
  November 17, 1999
Program Description:
  Recovers lost/forgotten passwords to MS Backup (QIC) files
Target OS:
  Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 5.0 (Beta)
Software type:
  Shareware ($30)


Company information
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Company Name:
  Elcom Ltd
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@elcomsoft.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.elcomsoft.com/abpr.html
Contact Postal Address:
  2-171 generala Antonova St.
  Moscow 117279 Russia


Description
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This program (Advanced Backup Password Recovery, or simply ABPR)
can be used to recover passwords for backup files (*.qic) created
with Microsoft Backup (in Windows 95/98). All passwords are
recovered instantly; multilingual passwords are supported.


Requirements
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- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows NT 2000
- about 600 kilobytes of hard disk space


Usage
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The program is a GUI application; you can run it bu just
selecting the "Advanced Backup Password Recovery" menu item from
the appropriate program group created during installation.
Alternatively, you can double-click on "abpr.exe" in the folder
you've installed ABPR to.

The main program window is quite simple, and contains just a few
buttons and status Window.

To open the QIC file for password recovery, press the "Open
document..." button (the left one). If the file you've
selected is a valid password-protected Backup file, the
following information will be displayed in the status window:

18.11.1999 13:07:17 - ABPR 1.0 launched, registered version
18.11.1999 13:07:21 - Trying to open 'F:\PROJ\disk_c.qic'
18.11.1999 13:07:21 - The password for F:\PROJ\disk_c.qic is
'Secret99' (without quotes)

Please note that unregistered version recovers the passwords
which are four characters long (or shorter). To recover longer
passwords, please consider purchasing the full version.

If the file is not a valid QIC backup, or not password-protected,
an appropriate message will be displayed.


Technical support
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For technical support, please us at support@elcomsoft.com.


Registration
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This program is distributed as shareware (look at "license.txt"
for details). Being unregistered, it recovers the password which
are 4-character or shorter..

After you register (look at "order.txt" for details), we'll
send you your personal registration code. To enter it into the
program, just press the "Register" button on the main screen;
the program will display the small window dialog asking you to
enter the code. If the code is correct, ABPR shows the message
that it is registered now, and so since than it will be able to
recover all passwords regardness the length.

Please note that your registration will be valid for all future
versions of ABPR -- it means, that they will be free for you.


Copyright and license
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See "license.txt" file.


Where to get the latest version
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The latest version of ABPR is always available from our
web page at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/abpr.html

Please also have a look at other password recovery products made
by our company:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html

You will find the password recovery software for Word/Excel
documents (all versions), Access 95/97, VBA, ARJ and ZIP archives,
and NT users there; more products will follow.