Advanced Office 2000 Password Recovery (standard edition)
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(c) 2000 Andy Malyshev & Ivan Golubev, Elcom Ltd.


* System requirements
* Overview
* Registration
* History
* Contact information


System requirements
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- Pentium or higher CPU
- 8 megabytes RAM
- Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT operating system
- less than 2 megabytes of space on hard disk


Overview
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A program to recover lost or forgotten passwords to
files/documents created in Microsoft Office applications
(all versions): Word (password to open, password to modify,
document protection password), Excel (password to open,
password to modify, wokbook password, sheet passwords),
Access (share-level passwords only), Money. Can also
reset MS Internet Explorer (3/4/5) Content Advisor password.

The program is compatible with all international (non-US)
versions of MS Office.

Please note that "password to open" in Word/Excel 97/2000
is very strong and cannot be decrypted instantly. AO2000PR
uses brute-force and dictionary attacks (plese look at the
help file for details); generally, if this password is long
and well-selected, it cannot be recovered. Other passwords
in MS Office 97/2000 (and all passwords in older versions of
MS Office), however, are weak, and AO2000PR gets them in a
matter of seconds.

If you want to recover passwords to file/documents created
in other MS Office components (Outlook, VBA, user-level
security in Access) and other Microsoft Software (such as
Project, Backup, Mail, Schedule+), please get "professional"
version of AO2000PR ($150); is is available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/ao2000pr.html


Registration
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Unregistered (trial version) has some limitations; fully
registered version costs $60 (personal license) or $120
(business license). See "order.txt" for more details.


History
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See "whatsnew.txt".


Contact information
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Please send your suggestions and bug reports to
support@elcomsoft.com (don't forget to mention what version
of AO2000R you're using). The most current version of AO2000PR
is always available at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/ao2000pr.html

Other password recovery products (for ZIP, ARJ, RAR and ACE
archives; Microsoft Outlook, VBA Projects in MS Office
documents, MS Backup, MS Project; Lotus Organizer, Lotus
1-2-3, Lotus WordPro, Lotus Approach; Paradox, Symentec
ACT!, Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks, Adobe Acrobat PDF) are
available at:

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