Advanced Office 95 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
  Ombudsman statement


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
  ao95pr.zip
Program Name:
  Advanced Office 95 Password Recovery
Program Version:
  1.01
Program Release Date:
  October 13, 1999
Program Description:
  Retrieves the passwords for MS Office documents
Target OS:
  Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000
Software type:
  Shareware ($60)


Company information
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Company Name:
  Elcom Ltd
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@elcomsoft.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.elcomsoft.com


Description
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This program (Advanced Office 95 Password Recovery, or simply
AO95PR) can be used to recover your lost passwords for Microsoft
Office documents. Supported versions of Office components are:

Word 6.0
Word 95 (7.0)
Excel 5.0
Excel 95 (7.0)
Access 95


Requirements
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- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000
  running on x86 CPU
- Microsoft Office document you forgot the password for :)


Usage
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The program is a GUI application; you can run it by just
selecting the "Advanced Office 95 Password Recovery" menu item from
the appropriate program group created during installation.
Alternatively, you can double-click on "ao95pr.exe" in the folder
you've installed AO95PR to.

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

To open the document for password recovering, press the "Open
file..." button (the left one). If the file you select is a
valid password-protected file (it should have an extension "doc"
for Word files, "xls" for Excel files, and "mdb" for Access
files), the program will recognize the file format and show (in
the status window) something like:

Trying to open a source file test.doc ...
test.doc successfully opened
Found the password: 'Test' (hex = 4b 69 74 74 65 6e)

After the ASCII represenation of the password, the program shows
the password in a hex form -- this might be usefull if some
characters are "unprintable" (i.e. cannot be typed on the
keyboard), or non-English.

Unregistered version shown only first three letters of the
password, and the other ones (4th and up) are replaced with '#'
character (the length of the password is correct, however); and
the hex representation is not shown at all. To see the complete
password (in ASCII and hex forms), please consider purchasing the
full version.

If the file is not a Office document, or created in newer
version of Microsoft Office (for example, Word 97 or Excel 97),
or doesn't have the password at all, an appropriate message will
be displayed. To recover passwords for Office 97/2000 documents,
please use "Advanced Office 97 Password Recovery" program, which
is available at:

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

Please note that if the file you're recovering the password for
is created in non-English version of Microsoft Office, AO95PR
may say that this document is not password-protected at all, or
display an invalid password. If you'll get such message, please
send us your file -- we'll recover the password for it manually,
and build-in the support for such files into the next versions
of AO95PR.


Technical support
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For technical support, please contact Mr.Vladimir Katalov
at support@elcomsoft.com.


Registration
------------

This program is distributed as shareware (look at "license.txt"
for details). Being unregistered, it shows only first three
chars of the password (the other chars are replaced with '#'
characters).

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, AO95PR shows the message
that it is registered now, and so since than will show all
characters of the password.

Please note that your registration will be valid for all future
versions of AO95PR -- 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
-------------------------------

The latest version of AO95PR is always available from our
web page at:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/ao95pr.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 97
documents, ARJ and ZIP archives and NT users there; more products
will follow.


Ombudsman statement
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Elcom Ltd is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals
(ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works
for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem
with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be
able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or
problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support
for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 157-F
Love Ave., Greenwood, IN 46142 USA, FAX 317-888-2195, or send email
to omb@asp-shareware.org.
