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Working with AOLPR
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To get password to PST file (all versions of Outlook are supported: 97, 98, 2000, 2002/XP and 2003), simply select the file you want to recover the password(s) for: press the Open file button and select an appropriate PST-file. If the given file is corrupted, or used by another application, or not password-protected – appropriate error message will be displayed. Otherwise, the password will be recovered immediately, shown in the message box and written to the log window. You can copy recovered password to Clipboard and run Outlook just from AOLPR, put the cursor into the password box, and press Ctrl-V or Ctrl-Ins there to paste the password from the Clipboard (to avoid mistyping).
Please note that in some cases, the password recovered by AOLPR is not the same as the one which has been originally set. That's due to encryption algorithm used in Outlook – the original password is not stored in the file. But that password (shown by AOLPR) will be accepted by Outlook without problems – just try. And of course, after logging into Outlook, you'll be able to change that password to any one, or just remove it. For Outlook 98, 2000, 2002/XP, 2003 and 2007 (sorry, Outlook 97 is not supported officially, while AOLPR may work for it), you can also recover information about email accounts (server address, login, password and server type) stored in Outlook: press the second button on the toolbar: Get Passwords for Outlook Mail Accounts. If Outlook is installed in the system (and there is at least one email account there), AOLPR will open new window with appropriate fields (see above). From there, for any account you can copy password to Clipboard by pressing an appropriate button at the bottom. Also, the program shows the server type (POP3, IMAP4 or HTTP) and Password Storage Type. Some information (describing what exactly the program is doing) is printed into the log window. Please note that all account/password information is stored in Windows Registry (in Protected Storage, to be exact), and being accessed by AOLPR using standard Windows API. That means that if you've re-installed (not upgraded) Windows, all your settings will be lost. Right now, AOLPR cannot extract it from binary Registry files – probably, it will be implemented in the next version. If you experience any troubles when trying to get any passwords (for mail, news or identities), e.g. the program just crashes or does not show the password, you can use debug mode. To enable it, press Options button on the toolbar, check the Enable logging box, and select the path to log file (or just leave the default value). Then, try to recover the passwords again, and send us that log file. It does not contain your passwords, just some technical information (what does the program do: accessing particular Registry keys, reading and decryption data etc). It would really help us to locate and fix a problem. |
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