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Access Password
Recovery Freeware

There is no reason to use a commercial service or software to recover Access Database passwords. Freeware is completely adequate.

Name - Database Password Sleuth

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5 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery.

Download URL - dbpwd.zip

Developer - Shatterock Technologies

OS - Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

File Size - 1.78 MB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/2002(xp)

Developer Provided Description - "Did you ever forget or misplace your database password? Database Password Sniffer instantly recovers the opening password from Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/2002 databases in one quick and easy step. Works fast an actually recovers the password almost instantly."

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.

Name - MDB Recover Password

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4 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 3 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - MDBReco.zip (Access 95/97 version)

MDBReco2000.zip ( Access 2000 Version)

Developer - Pierce Business Systems

OS - Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

File Size - 37 KB for Access 97 version. 44KB for 2000 version

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Access 95, 97 and 2000 (separate version for 2000)

Developer Provided Description - "Password protecting an Access database will keep casual users out and keep your data fairly secure. However, you may occasionally forget a password, especially on an old database or a database whose use is infrequent. For those instances, you can download this tool to fix your problem. You can use MDBRecoverPW to show you the current password assigned to the target MDB. This application works on Access 97 databases, and should work on Access 95. Download the special Access 2000 version above (in paranthesis by title on our site at http://www.pb-sys.com)."

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.

Name - Access PassView

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5 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery.

Download URL - Download Access PassView

Developer - NirSoft

OS - 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

File Size - 17KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/XP or with Jet Database Engine 3.0/4.0Developer Provided Description - "This utility reveals the database password of every password-protected mdb file that created with Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/XP or with Jet Database Engine 3.0/4.0 It can be very useful if you forgot your Access Database password and you want to recover it. The program supports drag and drop as well as command line input."

Comment - Not currently available. May be added later.

Name - Users' passwords viewer

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4 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 3 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - upvmsa2k.zip

Developer - SG Soft

OS - 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

File Size - 40 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - MS Access 2000 and MS Access 97

Developer Provided Description - "MS Access 2000 add-in. This program is designed to allow you to view fast and easily users' passwords in the workgroup information file (.MDW). The workgroup file you view might be from both: MS Access 2000 and MS Access 97." From .

Comment - This is for Access databases that are set up to be used with workgroups.

Name - MDB DeCryptor

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2 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 3 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - mdbdc.zip

Developer - SG Soft

OS - 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

File Size - 4.3 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - MS Access 95/97/2000

Developer Provided Description - "This small utility is intended for decrypting databases created by MS Access 95/97/2000. This can be useful if the encrypted database has been damaged and can't be restored by authorized tools and it is necessary to get the contents of the database's file decrypted for further recovering."

Comment - Great idea, but unless I misunderstand, a password protected database is encrypted, and my Access 2000 file was labeled by this program as unencrypted.

Name - MS Access' 95/97/2000 databases password tool

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2 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 2 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - msapt.zip

Developer - SG Soft

OS - 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

File Size - 93 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - MS Access 95/97/2000

Developer Provided Description - "This utility is designed for viewing and changing the password of the MS Access' 95/97/2000 databases files. For MS Access 97 database, the program shows the information on the owner of a database: user's name and PID."

Comment - Doesn't seem to work very well in my Access 2003. It did get some of the letters right. Perhaps it is using the wrong character set.

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