Advanced Office 2000 Password Recovery (standard edition)
(c) 1999-2002 ElcomSoft Co.Ltd.


= Contents =

  System requirements
  Overview
  Registration
  History
  Contact information


= System requirements =

- Pentium or higher CPU
- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system
- about one megabyte of free space on hard disk


= Overview =

AO2000PR (standard edition) is 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. It 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. MS Office XP files are also supported, but "password to open" can be recovered only if "compatible" (with Office 95 or Office 97/2000) encryption has been used; for files protected using CSP (Cryptographic Service Provider) all passwords but "password to open" are supported.

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); it is available at:

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


= Registration =

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


= History =

See "whatsnew.txt".


= Contact information =

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 and Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, VBA Projects in MS Office documents, MS Backup, MS Money, MS Project; Lotus Organizer, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus WordPro, Lotus Approach; Corel Paradox, WordPerfect and QuattroPro; Symentec ACT!, Intuit Quicken and QuickBooks, Adobe Acrobat PDF, email clients, instant messengers) are available at:

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