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What's new in Reset Windows Password 14.2

Apr 17, 2024
  • First, there's a new Telegram Desktop investigation tool. This tool actually includes 3 features aimed to help you recovering your Telegram passcode, decrypt protected files, and analyze downloads of the Telegram desktop app.
  • Second, the Windows media forensics now supports two additional features: Windows 10/11 Photo Database and Windows 11 Media Player investigation tools.
  • A great update for anyone who deals with Microsoft Office password protection pretty much. The SHA512 hashing algorithm has undergone significant improvements. This helps to speed up certain password search algorithms by up to three times. As a result, the password recovery process for Microsoft Office 2013-2021 documents is much faster now.
  • Finally, we have significantly improved the logic behind the search for password-protected documents. Instead of checking a specific disk location, the program now scans the entire disk and instantly displays a list of all password-protected documents it founds. This new feature is made possible thanks to our brand-new and innovative instant disk search technology.

New in Reset Windows Password 14.1 (Feb 20, 2024)

  • Now, you can easily track the history of external IP addresses linked to any user account on Windows. With this revolutionary tool, you can dive a bit deep into users' network history, revealing the specific IP addresses they've used to connect to the network along with the respective timestamps. This feature is not available in any other application!
  • We have also added a fantastic new feature that allows you to search for files and their contents on your disk in the blink of an eye! Our cutting-edge search algorithm is setting a new benchmark for speed and accuracy compared to other Windows programs. To give you an idea of its power, imagine processing hundreds of file masks simultaneously (the program includes some ready-to-use rules) with wildcards on a typical user disk containing around 1 million files in just a few seconds on average. Moreover, our program offers advanced search rules tailored to meet the needs of the most discerning and sophisticated users and supports all file systems available in Windows.
  • This update also brings some additional improvements, such as new password recovery modules (for example, recovery module for saved passwords of the FAR FTP client). These enhancements extend to the decryption of plaintext passwords for local and domain accounts, as well as for PDF/Office documents, virtual machines, and more.
  • The logon policy editor now has a variety of new local security options available.
  • The recent user activity feature has been enhanced to extract and display even more files and folders user accessed recently.
  • Lastly, we've added some new hard disk drivers in this update.
  • The database incompatibility error that occurred when decrypting some SRUM (System Resource Usage Monitor) databases Windows 11 2H23 has been fixed.
  • CPU overusage bug in the network dialog has been nailed as well.
  • Additionally, we've addressed a buffer overflow bug that was affecting the programs timeline parsing, along with fixing some interface issues.

New in Reset Windows Password 14.0 (Dec 12, 2023)

  • First, statistics and analysis reports were revised and given advanced visualization. Depending on your needs (and the type of the report), each report can include lots of additional information, such as OS statistics, user profile information, installed hardware/software, like antiviruses or browsers, disk information, and much more - over 50 items in total!
  • The new file statistics tool generates extended information on files and folders, the types and categories files belong to, top largest/newest items, etc. Just input a logical disk to get started!
  • We've also added a brand-new disk space analyzer tool. It'll help you analyze disk free space and find the top folders that take up too much space, allowing you to free up some space on your logical drives.
  • Our Windows search database explorer now has a new option that extracts information on deleted files and data. Plus, it can create dictionary files with all words extracted from the Windows search database! This feature is perfect for further analysis or for use in any password recovery software.
  • Next, additional improvements have been made, such as a general enhancement to the Windows product key extraction algorithm, as well as improved hardware information in certain dialogs, better NVME/SCM/virtual drive detection in some tools, and much more.
  • We've also made some interface revisions and enhancements, as well as updated some interface languages.
  • Lastly, we've improved the algorithm for detection of the last user logon/logoff time to make it even more accurate.

New in Reset Windows Password 13.2 (Oct 4, 2023)

  • A new tool for removing junk files and cleaning up the registry. Even though there are many similar tools for wiping out disk space and removing unnecessary registry keys, Reset Windows Password is the first program that can do that while the Operating System is offline.
  • A couple of new built-in SSD drivers.
  • Language update for Italian, Russian, Gujarati, and Hindi interfaces.
  • The raw image creation feature was working incorrectly on some configurations.

New in Reset Windows Password 13.1 (Jun 5, 2023)

  • Remote Desktop forensic tool. This is a set of 3 items that allows you to extract passwords of RDP saved connections, view RDP events and analyze RDP cached images.
  • A new and easy-to-use way of searching for BitLocker recovery keys that were saved locally. When you open the BitLocker decryption dialog for the first time, the program scans specific folders on local drives to locate saved BitLocker recovery keys.
  • This version has the ability to decrypt credit cards stored in popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and other Chromium-based browsers.
  • The backup tool can search and save additional items now. Such as Remote Desktop cache, Media player history, BitLocker recovery keys, etc.
  • This version of the program performs additional checks for password vulnerabilities upon startup. If it detects that any of your passwords or personal data are at risk or can be decrypted instantly, it displays a corresponding warning message.

New in Reset Windows Password 13.0 (Apr 24, 2023)

  • Full support for Windows 11. This version also has some important compatibility fix-ups when working with Windows 11 OSes.
  • File checksum calculator. This is a new tool for creating file checksums, as well as for hashing files to ensure data integrity. The tool uses different hashing algorithms, such as CRC-32, MD5, SHA1, SHA-256, and SHA-512. It can work in a batch mode computing and verifying checksums of multiple files of any requested directory.
  • Duplicate file finder. If you have thousands of music files, documents, photos or videos and you are running out of disk space, this tool is right for you. It will help you to locate and remove useless file duplicates, empty files or folders literally, in a couple of mouse-clicks. We tried to make this tool as fast as possible and optimized the file processing speed for SSDs and multi core CPUs.
  • SQLite viewer. This is an extremely simple tool for viewing and analyzing databases in SQLite format.
  • OS boot status viewer. This tool keeps track of the boot process and identifies any issues that may occur during boot. The tool parses the bootstat.dat file and extracts boot information stored by Windows Boot Manager, including but not limited to the previous boot sequence, the last successful boot and any previous failed attempts. This can be vital when you need to determine the cause of any boot failures, such as a crash or unexpected shutdown. If Windows fails to start up properly, the Boot status explorer can be used to determine the cause of the failure and provide guidance on how to resolve the problem.
  • The Windows Search database explorer supports for the newest format of the Windows Search engine. The Windows 11 Search format migrated from ESE to SQLite database and some properties and logic have changed slightly after migration. Both old and new formats can be handled perfectly by the new version now.
  • The backup tool supports new items, including some e-wallets.
  • BitLocker drive decryption has a new option that allows users to get BitLocker recovery keys back from their Microsoft accounts.
  • Out-of-the-box support for new HDD and SSD drives, including some NVMe ones.
  • This update has some minor problems fixed and applies several enhancements in the Network password recovery module.
  • Some general improvements handling user accounts configured for a passwordless sign-in.
  • The module of the personal data extraction from Chrome and Chromium-based Web browsers performs much faster, analyses deeper and fetches more data now. This module is used by the data backup tool.
  • Language update for French, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hindi, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian interfaces. Thanks to all guys who keeping it up-to-date.
  • This version has a fix for the problem of the instant data decryption using Windows Hello facial or fingerprint biometrics (without providing password or pin). The previous version sometimes failed to decrypt DPAPI credentials using Windows Hello saved biometrics.
  • The previous version had a severe error backing up wireless network profiles, passwords of Microsoft accounts, and Azure AD credentials for some machines.

New in Reset Windows Password 12.3 (Feb 17, 2023)

  • A new updated version of the Reset Windows Password is ready for download. It includes the following changes:
  • Volume Explorer. This is a new tool to mount hidden partitions of a drive.
  • A new tool to parse and view databases in an ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) format.
  • Windows Search database explorer. The world's first human-readable viewer and parser of the Windows Search index.
  • The plaintext password recovery module got a new option to fetch words from Windows Search database. It works when searching domain credentials, document passwords, PINs, SYSKEYs, Virtual PC passwords, local and domain passwords.
  • The About dialog shows a power indicator now. It's helpful to check if you're not running out of power on a laptop, for example.
  • The ESE database reader now uses a better database size auto-detection algorithm. The ESE reader module is used by SCRUM, Windows Search, Windows Edge history parser and in some other tools.
  • ESE databases copied from another PC have a 'dirty shutdown' flag set on. If the OS was not shut down properly or was not shut down at all, most system databases, such as Windows Search or System Resource Usage Monitor, are marked as 'dirty'. It means that some data still reside in transaction log files and it is required to complete the transactions in order to open the database. When parsing the ESE databases, the Reset Windows Password checks if it has the 'dirty shutdown' state and, if yes, prompts to repair the database.
  • Some visual improvements.
  • Update for Brazilian, Hindi, Hungarian, Gujarati and Russian language interfaces.
  • The forensic backup tool can collect additional items now: Microsoft Edge history, Windows music and video databases, Microsoft communication database, Windows error reports and user crash dumps, power efficiency reports, SMS message store, and some others.
  • The file backup tool was not functioning properly and created ZIP archives with duplicate items sometimes.
  • Interface issues.

New in Reset Windows Password 12.2 (Nov 14, 2022)

  • This version brought a new tool to dump information about system usage. The System Resource Usage Monitor tracks hardware usage, displays statistics on program execution, amount of data sent or received over a network, etc.
  • The password backup tool supports some additional private items: discord, filezilla, total commander, pidgin, psi, Nord VPN, Proton VPN, Open VPN, crypto wallets, such as Electrum, Ethereum, Exodus, Bytecoin, BitcoinCore, DashCore, Monero, LitecoinCore, and some other stuff as well.
  • Windows search database backup.
  • Wireless passwords search.
  • A new tool for mapping network drives.
  • Update of the Hindi, Hungarian, Gujarati, and Russian language interfaces.

New in Reset Windows Password 12.1 (Sep 19, 2022)

  • Recycle Bin history. This is a new tool that scans every hard drive, extracts all deleted files of every found Recycle Bin for every user account, and binds the data into a single list.
  • The USB history displays the list of storage devices that were connected to the computer earlier, their sizes, serial numbers, as well as some other technical information, such as MBR or partition tables.
  • The data backup tool now supports extracting system events and system resource monitor logs.
  • Windows PIN dump. This is a new feature for saving Windows Hello PINs to text files. You can use the dumps later to speed up the PIN recovery process. For example, using our Windows Password Recovery.
  • Support for Azure AD accounts.
  • Support for Kiosk accounts.
  • Instant password recovery for some user accounts. To be more precise, for all ones that have a biometric logon and no TPM protection. The new feature works, for example, when decrypting network credentials.
  • In this version, we updated the DPAPI decryption module significantly. Now it has a full-scale support for Microsoft and Azure AD accounts, works with password-less accounts, includes some improvements in ARSO submodule (one that allows decrypting data without user password or PIN), etc.
  • Enhanced compatibility with password-less accounts.
  • Update for Chinese user interface.
  • The local user selection dialog has been revised slightly. Now it displays the last logon time, supports for Kiosk and AzureAD users (aka work or school) accounts, etc.
  • A number of minor improvements.
  • A hangout error creating *.E01 images of physical drives.

New in Reset Windows Password 12.0 (Jul 19, 2022)

  • Windows media forensic. This is a new set of tools for analyzing pictures and video files stored in the Windows Photo database. This set includes:
  • Photos - a general report with all found images and their properties. Such as size, date taken, location, caption, source device and properties, etc.
  • Photo faces - a list of detected faces
  • Photo persons - a list of faces grouped by persons
  • Photo tags - a list of detected objects ranged by tags
  • Photo OCR - recognized characters and words
  • Photo locations - locations where photos were taken
  • Photo dates - dates when photos were taken
  • Camera models - images grouped by camera model
  • Camera manufacture - images grouped by camera manufacture
  • Multimedia applications - software that was used for editing
  • Photo albums - a list of photo albums
  • Video - a general report with found video items and their properties. Such as size, date produced, duration, caption, copyright, etc.
  • Video faces - a list of detected faces in video files
  • Video persons - a list of faces grouped by persons
  • Video tags - a list of detected objects in video files, ranged by tags
  • Video dates - dates when video files were produced
  • Video albums - a list of video albums
  • Album views - album view statistics
  • File views - media view statistics
  • Imports - a history of import actions
  • Searches - a history of search queries in media database
  • Shared items - media files shared by user
  • Print history - media files printed by user
  • Search for textual passwords in images. The Artificial Intelligence attack can now use the optical character recognition module to extract words from images stored in the Windows Photo database. If a user saved some passwords as a picture or as a screenshot using Windows Photo, the program can extract the text passwords from the images and use them for further recovery. It's proved to be working efficiently on multiple real-life cases decrypting local and domain passwords, domain cached credentials, encrypted documents, Windows Hello PINs, etc.
  • New themed interface, redesigned main dialog, a lot of minor improvements.
  • Hungarian language interface.
  • Updates for French, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Spanish and Russian interfaces. Thanks guys for keeping it up-to-date.
  • A minor bug in the rollback dialog.

New in Reset Windows Password 11.4 (May 5, 2022)

  • Windows activity timeline. This is a new utility that shows activity history of any local or domain account.
  • Clipboard history. This tool extracts and decrypts text, pictures, and other data stored by Windows clipboard. The Windows clipboard is cleared out every time the user logs off the system. However, if the clipboard history option is on, the system preserves and saves the clipboard. Thus, the data can be easily extracted and decrypted even after the system shutdown. This is what this new tool is for. The program supports the Windows shared clipboard, the clipboard history and clipboard sync data.
  • The password and private data backup tool supports Windows activity timeline now.
  • Some interface enhancement. All program dialogs are resizable now.
  • Sometimes running a custom recovery (a dictionary, hybrid or mask attack) caused the program to fail unexpectedly.
  • The Artificial Intelligence attack has got a new clipboard analysis module as well. The attack searches for any saved words, passwords, and text (including Windows clipboard) of every local and domain user. Then it mixes up and varies the found words to get a list of password candidates and at last uses the password candidates to check the plaintext password user needs to guess. This feature works when searching for the following items:
  • Local and domain users' passwords
  • Domain cached credentials
  • Plaintext passwords to encrypted documents. For example, Microsoft Office or PDF files.
  • Windows Hello PIN
  • Syskey password
  • Passwords for encrypted virtual OSes

New in Reset Windows Password 11.3 (Mar 22, 2022)

  • Support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022.
  • Sticky notes extraction tool. This is a new feature for displaying sticky notes stored (and even some deleted ones) in Windows 7-11 OSes.
  • A new forensic investigation feature for detecting camera and microphone access tracking. It detects what program was using the hardware, when and how long was the last session.
  • Some visual enhancements.

New in Reset Windows Password 11.1 (Feb 8, 2022)

  • A new update of the Reset Windows Password v11.1 brings a significant performance optimization. Here's a full list of what were changes:
  • Backdoor passwords search when recovering Microsoft Office documents.
  • Better UI response timings when searching for application keys and serial numbers. It took too much time sometimes to stop the keys extraction process.
  • Updates for the French, and Russian interfaces. Thanks, Laurent Debard, for keeping it up-to-date.
  • Performance optimization when recovering Windows PINs. Up to 8-x speedup for CPUs with AVX2 instruction set.
  • Significant performance optimization when recovering Domain Cached Credentials type 2. Up to 20-x boost on newer CPUs.
  • Performance optimization when recovering VMWare and VirtualBox encrypted machines. Up to 7-x boost for VirtualBox and up to 2-x speed increase when recovering VMWare encrypted virtual PCs.
  • Support for disks with non-default sector size when creating disk images.
  • Occasionally some Opera profiles were skipping in the Browser history tool.
  • A serious error loading some old-style Microsoft PowerPoint and Word documents.
  • Error parsing most open document formats. The program failed to decrypt some OpenOffice documents because of the bug.
  • The Windows Events tool didn't work for the newest versions of Windows 10.

New in Reset Windows Password 11.0 (Dec 3, 2021)

  • Support for Windows 21H2.
  • Password recovery for Indian AADHAAR and E-PAN cards. The Aadhaar card is a pdf file that contains a unique Identification Authority of Indian citizens. The e-pan card is a digital identifier issued by the Income Tax Department. This version of the program has out-of-the-box support for both PDF types. To recover an Aadhaar/e-pan card, select the tool for decrypting passwords of the recently used documents, right-click the list of found items, uncheck any other files for a faster password search and run the appropriate recovery. To decrypt the electronic PDF cards RWP automatically involves 7 different attack types that allow keeping the success rate close to 100%. Thanks, Dhiren Prajapati, for the ideas and tests.
  • Syntax of the mask attack supports dictionaries now. Password recovery using the mask attack has become much easier. For example, if you know that the password you search for consists of a word along with a number at the end, you can set the following mask:
  • %w(English.pcd)%d(1-5)
  • This mask checks all words from the built-in English.pcd dictionary adding numbers from 0 to 99999 at the end of every word.
  • Spanish manual and help. Thanks to José Francisco Mendoza Martínez for the job.
  • Support for Windows hibernation state. If one of the program's features requests a disk write access and the program detects that the target Operating System is in a hibernating state, it displays a warning message and prompts to reset the hibernation to avoid synchronization problems.
  • An enhanced algorithm for extracting user account pictures has been applied.
  • Windows directory selection dialog now shows a piece of additional and helpful information (depending on working mode) about user accounts, the last logon time, the last logged on user, Windows Hello protection type, etc.
  • The user selection dialog displays the last sign-in method (for local accounts).
  • The user selection dialog can be used now to view Documents, Downloads, or Desktop folders of the local account.
  • The backup tool got a new option to search and save memory dumps and hibernation files. Those files can be used later to extract user hashes, logon passwords, web credentials, disk encryption keys, etc.
  • The backup tool can extract and save Windows Sticky notes as well as media databases.
  • A new option for protecting archives with a password when creating backups of the passwords and personal data.
  • The Windows Sticky notes wordlist extractor is included in AI recovery module now. The AI password recovery is used when recovering plaintext passwords for Windows accounts, document passwords, Windows PINs, Windows Syskey, passwords for virtual machines, etc.
  • OS information module (included in some dialogs) now decrypts and displays instantly Windows product keys, whenever it is possible. The keys can be extracted from the local registry or from the BIOS of the target computer.
  • Intelligent PIN recovery. Every time a user tries to decrypt Windows PIN, the program analyses all found PINs and, if some weak ones are found, offers an intelligent recovery. First, the guaranteed recovery for the PINs that can be found in the fastest possible way is launched, then go time-consumptive ones, and at last, those that can be recovered applying a lookup for frequently used combinations only. A user is free to switch between the intelligent and a common recovery, however.
  • The built-in English dictionary was updated with some commonly used and popular passwords.
  • The last logged-on user is highlighted wherever it's possible now.
  • Users can launch the secret questions and answers dialog directly. Previous versions of the program did it automatically.
  • Updates for French, Hindi, Italian, Russian and Spanish interfaces. Thank you all, guys, for keeping it up-to-day.
  • The program's smart logic has been improved. For example, once started, the Reset Windows Password searches for memory dumps, BitLocker protected drives, virtual machines, etc. and, if one of the items is found, offers to back up the memory dumps, unprotect the BitLocker drives or mount the virtual machine.
  • OS information module displays a bit more correct data about Windows version and build number.
  • Some interface improvements.
  • A little bit more proper Microsoft Edge and Opera detection when recovering browser passwords.

New in Reset Windows Password 10.5 (Sep 1, 2021)

  • Interface and system restriction policy editor. This is a tool for offline changing different system restrictions. For example, lock/unlock Control Panel setting, enable/disable Task Manager or Run dialog box, allow/disallow access to the Command-Line or the Windows Registry, restrict certain Windows applications to be run, grant or deny access to storage devices, etc.
  • File compression speed has been optimized significantly. The ZIP compression engine is used by the following utilities: the password backup tool, the recently used files finder, the tool to search for encrypted documents.
  • On some systems, the Windows Hello credentials were extracting incorrectly by the password backup tool. The misbehavior caused some Windows Hello encryption keys to skip when saving passwords and sensitive information.

New in Reset Windows Password 10.4.1 (Jul 30, 2021)

  • Support for Windows 10 21H1.
  • Support for old Microsoft Office 97-2003 formats in document passwords recovery.
  • Some enhancement enumerating and processing *.json files when searching for plaintext passwords.
  • Speed improvement processing zip files. Unpacking a big *.zip file now takes significantly less time.
  • Fixed a memory overusage problem processing huge *.xlsx files.

New in Reset Windows Password 10.3 (Jun 17, 2021)

  • A new feature for creating disk images. Using the program's simple 3-step interface, it's now easy to clone a logical disk or make an image of the whole physical disk or a certain partition.
  • Windows PIN history decryption. You can use the Logon policy editor to turn on/off the PIN history in Windows 10.
  • Support for 7z archives when parsing email attachments, searching for passwords in recently used files, running Artificial Intelligence attack, etc.
  • A brand-new HTML/email parsing engine that was rebuilt from scratch with more thorough data analysis in mind. The HTML/email parsing engine is aimed mostly to generate a user vocabulary. For example, when extracting email correspondence, recently used files, typed-in words in browser search, etc. This vocabulary is used then for guessing plaintext passwords.
  • Now the program can display the last modification date for extracted Windows Hello credentials, plaintext PINs, PIN history, Picture Passwords, etc.
  • Updates for the Chinese, French, Gujarati, Hindi, and Russian interfaces. Thanks to Liang Piau Suk, Laurent Debard, Dhiren Prajapati for keeping it up-to-date.
  • Interface enhancements.

New in Reset Windows Password 10.2 (May 4, 2021)

  • A new tool for searching and exploring Windows files that have been opened recently.
  • Program execution timeline. This is a new feature for displaying the timeline of which program was executed and when.
  • Some interface improvements.

New in Reset Windows Password 10.1.0 (Mar 10, 2021)

  • Password policy editor got two new options:
  • Enable/disable storing LM hashes of the account passwords
  • Blank passwords usage restrictions
  • Password reports contain some additional information now:
  • OS, install date, last logged on user, installed browsers, etc.
  • Chinese interface has been updated.
  • Some enhancements in the password backup tool.
  • The algorithm for caching decrypted master keys has got some improvements (when decrypting browser, network, or mail credentials).
  • An incorrect wipe-out of some lockout policy flags was fixed when resetting a password of a local account.
  • A problem displaying a report of the last modified documents has been fixed.
  • A security issue.
  • SYSKEY password was not displaying sometimes after a successful recovery.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.9 (Dec 1, 2020)

  • Support for Windows 10 20H2.
  • Support for passwordless sign-in. The passwordless sign-in is a new feature of the Windows 10 20H2.
  • Logon policy settings editor.
  • New items were added to the password backup tool.
  • Now it's easy to shut down the computer (instead of restarting it). Just hold down the Shift key when exiting the program.
  • Enhancements support when searching passwords of the following Chromium-based browsers: 360 Safe Browser, 7Star, Amigo, Brave, Centbrowser, Chedot, Canary, Coccoc, Comodo Dragon, Elements, Kometa, Orbitum, QQ Browser, Sputnik, Torch, UC Browser, Uran, Vivaldi.
  • Some enhancements running file explorer using the default configuration.
  • The algorithm for extracting and decrypting Windows Hello credentials was improved a bit.
  • French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian interfaces have been updated. Thanks to Laurent Debard, José Francisco Mendoza Martínez, and Anderson Oliveira for the translations.
  • Some font fixes for the Chinese interface.
  • A guaranteed PIN recovery was not started (in PIN lookup dialog) if a custom attack was selected.
  • Sometimes the program was unable to decrypt passwords for certain Vault items when searching for network passwords.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.8 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • VNC password recovery.
  • Password recovery for Tortoise SVN accounts.
  • Password recovery for Open VPN accounts.
  • Searching for passwords stored in script and batch files on the local PC.
  • RWP access password. Now you can protect your RWP USB drive with a startup password to prevent other people from being running the program and viewing your personal data.
  • Brazilian Portuguese language interface. Thanks to Anderson Oliveira.
  • Out-of-the-box support for some new HDD/SSD devices.
  • Enhanced algorithm for unlocking BitLocker-encrypted drives.
  • Enhanced algorithm for detecting and decoding group policy passwords.
  • Some improvements in the algorithm that is used by the program to roll back changes for a local PC.
  • Some problems detecting, processing, and resetting lockout flags were fixed. For both local and domain accounts.
  • A bug recovering SAM and Active Directory passwords using Artificial Intelligence power has been fixed.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.7 (Jun 10, 2020)

  • Support for Windows 10 2004.
  • Password recovery for VmWare and VirtualBox virtual machines.
  • Display additional info about the target operating system when choosing registry files.
  • Account lockout policy check. Now when resetting password for a local account the program additionally checks if the user account is locked by lockout policy and, if yes, prompt to reset the policy additionally.
  • Support for Lockwise password encryption when extracting passwords out of Mozilla-based browsers like Firefox, SeaMonkey, K-Meleon, etc. The Lockwise password manager (on desktop, this is a part of Firefox v70+) has got a brand-new and enhanced protection based on AES-256 cipher and SHA-256 hashing algorithms.
  • Italian interface language (thanks to José Francisco Mendoza Martínez).
  • Language updates for Chinese (supplied by Liang Piau Suk), French (thanks to Laurent Debard), Russian (Ivan O.), and Spanish (José Francisco Mendoza Martínez) interfaces.
  • Sometimes the program was unable to find and extract pictures for local user accounts.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.6 (Mar 24, 2020)

  • The program has got support for custom recovery when decrypting SAM and NTDS.DIT hashes, domain cached credentials, Syskey and Windows PIN. The customization includes three general methods so far: Dictionary, Hybrid and Mask attack.
  • Support for a new type of password encryption that was introduced in Google Chrome v80 as well as in other Chromium browsers. New versions of the Google Chrome encrypt passwords using AES-256-GCM algorithm and a system-generated 32-byte random key protected with DPAPI. The program supports the new type of encryption now.
  • Some enhancements in the algorithm for extracting passwords of Chromium-based browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, etc. The thing is that all private data in those browsers are encrypted using DPAPI which requires logon credentials. Thus, providing logon password is necessary to decrypt the browser data. However, the program can decrypt the data without logon credentials in certain cases. The new (optional) algorithm, even though became a bit slower, provides a more efficient and automated way of doing it.
  • Update for French and Russian interface languages. Thanks to Laurent Debard for the update as well as for some usability hints.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.5 (Dec 9, 2019)

  • Support for Windows 10 1909, virtual OSes

New in Reset Windows Password 9.4 (Oct 16, 2019)

  • Passcape tables recovery was superseded with a brand-new attack that uses deep learning algorithms for guessing plaintext passwords. Even though in most cases it works slower than Passcape tables (because the can use CPU power only), the number of passwords it can guess is significantly higher.
  • Several enhancements and some new features when extracting recent user activity information.
  • Some columns in the list of found items (in the document search dialog) were not sorting properly.
  • The progress was not showing properly while backing up the list of found documents.
  • An error decrypting some DPAPI master keys for domain users was fixed.
  • A minor problem detecting Windows XP system directories has been eliminated.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.3 (Jun 24, 2019)

  • Support for Windows 10 1903.
  • Support for Trusted Boot Auto-Logon.
  • Microsoft Edge Dev (based on Chromium code) is supported now when recovering network/browser passwords.
  • Some changes in the algorithm of decrypting browser, mail, and network credentials. A minor speedup when processing a big list of found passwords. Other enhancements.
  • Support for new data storage when decrypting secret questions and answers for Windows 10 accounts.
  • Some useful enhancements were added to the password backup tool.
  • French, Spanish and Russian interfaces renewal. Thanks to Laurent Debard and Mr.X for providing the updates.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.2 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • Web history. The program can now extract and decrypt URL history, form autocompletion data, logins, passwords, cookies, and other information stored by popular browsers: Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Opera, browsers based on Mozilla code (Firefox, SeaMonkey, PaleMoon, etc.), Chromium- based ones (Google Chrome, YandexBrowser, 360 Extreme Explorer, etc.).
  • French, Spanish and Russian interfaces renewal. Thanks to Laurent Debard and Mr.X for providing the updates.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.1 (Jan 24, 2019)

  • Spanish interface. Thanks to Mr.X.
  • New tool for viewing system events. It can extract and display major events that occur in Windows. For example, system startup/shutdown, drivers installation, logging on/off user accounts, etc.
  • A better discovery of some email passwords.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.0.1 (Nov 27, 2018)

  • This version has support for Firefox v58+ (as well as other Mozilla-based applications) when decrypting internet passwords.
  • Some enhancements when recovering Internet Explorer 10-11 passwords.
  • Minor interface improvements.
  • Update for French manual. Once French interface is selected you can open French help directly from within the program. Thanks to Laurent Debard for providing the update.

New in Reset Windows Password 9.0 (Nov 15, 2018)

  • The new version of Reset Windows Password has been released.
  • Support for Windows 10 RS5.
  • Support for Windows Server 2019.
  • New tool to view account statistics.
  • Hardware history viewer.
  • Software installations viewer.
  • Network history viewer.
  • Recent user activity viewer tool.
  • New tools to view last modified files and folders.
  • To provide an extra layer of protection for local accounts, Microsoft added the use of security questions and answers recently. The new version of Reset Windows Password can extract and decrypt the secret questions and answers (to all local accounts).
  • Translations for German, Russian and French interfaces have been updated.
  • Some minor enhancements. Thanks to Laurent Debard for suggesting new features.
  • Search for product keys and serial numbers behaved incorrectly. The program was skipping some found keys.

New in Reset Windows Password 8.4 (Jun 22, 2018)

  • Support for Windows 10 biometric credentials. Once the program detects biometric credentials, it can use them to decrypt logon password of the user account.
  • The new tool for searching and unprotecting logon credentials stored by Windows Hello.
  • Windows PIN recovery tool.
  • Support for Windows 10 Spring Creators Update.
  • Update for program's interface and French manual. Thanks Laurent Debard for translating and suggesting some features.
  • Minor changes in Bitlocker-drive decryption dialog.
  • Some improvements and bug fixes.

New in Reset Windows Password 8.3 (Mar 9, 2018)

  • Offline password policy editor. Both local and domain versions.
  • Full French help is available now if French interface is selected within the program. You can also download the pdf version of the program's manual. Thanks Laurent Debard for this great and painstaking work done.
  • Password reset dialog now shows whether new password conforms to password policy (if one is set) of the target PC or not.
  • Update for French language interface, provided by Laurent Debard.
  • A minor fix was implemented dumping hashes to PWDUMP format. For programs that cannot treat trailing ':' characters properly.
  • The feature for wiping out Windows password reset information was not working properly for some OSes.

New in Reset Windows Password 8.2 (Jan 12, 2018)

  • Native support for Bitlocker encrypted drives. Once a drive protected by Bitlocker is found, the program prompts to unlock it using one of the four available decryption methods.

New in Reset Windows Password 8.1 (Nov 3, 2017)

  • Support for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. New version of Windows has some changes in the way DPAPI encryption keys for Microsoft accounts are stored.

New in Reset Windows Password 8.0 (Sep 28, 2017)

  • New feature for resetting passwords of domain cached accounts has been introduced. When a user logs on to a Windows domain, the user's domain credentials are securely cached to his/her PC. This feature allows users logging on to the domain when the local workstation is disconnected from the network or even if no domain controller is available. Now if the domain password is forgotten, you can log on to your domain account by simply resetting your cached credentials using our Reset Windows Password tool. RWP is the first program that can easily get around the problem of lost passwords for the domain accounts.
  • New feature to search for domain cached (plaintext) passwords. Both domain cached credentials type 1 and DCC type 2 are supported.
  • This version also allows to roll back (revert) changes made to domain cached credentials.
  • The program migrated to new bootable environment.
  • New set of HDD drivers that come with the program.
  • Support for multithreading when recovering SYSKEY plaintext password. Password search speed was increased up to several times, depending on CPU type.
  • Update for French and Russian interfaces. Thanks goes to Laurent Debard.
  • New program's logic. Now all features are scattered across 4 working modes.
  • The working modes are:
  • SAM - regular user accounts
  • DCC - domain cached accounts
  • AD - Active Directory domain accounts
  • UTILS - miscellaneous utilities

New in Reset Windows Password 7.2.0 (Jul 7, 2017)

  • New version of Reset Windows Password has been submitted
  • New tool for searching password-protected documents.
  • Update for Russian and French translation (thanks to Laurent Debard) .
  • Some improvements.

New in Reset Windows Password 7.1.0 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • Croatian language interface. Thanks to Drazen Matic.
  • New feature for creating SAM user accounts.
  • Support for Windows 10 Creators Update.
  • Several improvements in program's interface. Thanks goes to Laurent Debard for suggesting new features as well as providing update for French translation.
  • New file explorer tool.
  • Some workaround to prevent the program from being frozen for a while after stopping a password search attack.
  • Error processing a table attack. Some found passwords could be skipped. Fixed now.

New in Reset Windows Password 6.5 (Oct 20, 2016)

  • Support for Windows Server 2016. The latest release of the OS implements new encryption scheme used to protect domain hashes in ntds.dit file.
  • Several new HDD drivers were added to the program's package.
  • Some changes in password detection algorithm that helps to extract plaintext passwords better.
  • Update for French interface kindly provided by Laurent Debard.
  • Additional protection against unwanted SYSKEY deletion was implemented.
  • Fixed some troubles zeroing out SYSKEY on some PCs.
  • Fixed a error processing Active Directory plaintext passwords. Some passwords stored using reversible encryption were not extracted properly.
  • Fixed a bug processing user accounts in Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Some hashes may be encrypted/decrypted incorrectly.

New in Reset Windows Password 6.4 (Oct 20, 2016)

  • Support for a brand-new encryption scheme of protecting password hashes in SAM file. The new protection came with Windows 10 Anniversary Update. The update affects almost a half of program's features like logon password reset/recovery, SYSKEY lookup/delete, hash dump, etc.
  • Support for native AES-NI CPU instructions for faster SYSKEY password recovery on modern PCs.
  • This version can also utilize a discovered vulnerability in new protection scheme (set by Win 10 Anniversary Update). This simple flaw helps to run SYSKEY password recovery a little bit faster.
  • Some changes in SYSKEY reset mode.

New in Reset Windows Password 6.3.1 (Sep 9, 2016)

  • Update for French language interface.
  • Some interface improvements.

New in Reset Windows Password 6.1.0 (May 18, 2016)

  • Support for Windows Server 2016 TP4. Windows Server 2016 implements new encryption type based on AES-256 cipher. It is used by default to protect/encrypting hashes in Active Directory.
  • New fingerprint attack to search for SYSKEY and logon passwords better.
  • New modules for extracting Active Directory sensitive information like UNIX-compatible passwords, script execution passwords, etc.
  • New HDD drivers.
  • Support for high capacity drives (over 32 Gb) when formatting Reset Windows Password boot image to FAT32.
  • RWP ISO image has been reconstructed to get better compatibility with UEFI firmware.
  • Support for Radius password decryption when importing Active Directory accounts.
  • Fixed some UEFI compatibility issues.
  • A minor problem resetting AD passwords was fixed.
  • Serious error in Active Directory password extraction module. The program might stall or fail unexpectedly.
  • Fixed a bug in ISO Burner utility. 'FAT32 MBR BIOS' partition mode worked incorrectly for some USB devices.

New in Reset Windows Password 6.0.0 (Jan 18, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Migration to a new boot environment. It gives better compatibility with some PCs/laptops which come with preinstalled Windows 8/10 OSes. A drawback of this migration is that the boot image became a little bit fatter.
  • New set of Win 8 compatible drivers.
  • USB boot module of the ISO burner utility has been totally rewritten. Now it has several burning modes to get better BIOS and UEFI compatibility. The 'max compatibility' mode allows creating bootable USB drives that can be run under BIOS and UEFI simultaneously.
  • Dictionary recovery (when searching for user logon passwords and SYSKEY plaintext password) has been rewritten completely. Now it performs a bit smarter and uses brand-new dictionaries that include top-used words for the following languages (Standard and Advanced editions only): Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
  • Fixed a problem in one of the modules that searched for simple passwords. The password analysis was not working as expected.

New in Reset Windows Password 5.3.0 (Sep 13, 2015)

  • Full support for Windows 10.
  • Microsoft Live ID to local account conversion feature. You can easily convert Microsoft Live ID accounts into local ones.
  • Better guessing plaintext passwords based on complex keyboard combinations.
  • French and Russian translation updates (kindly provided by Laurent Debard).
  • Fixed a memory error decrypting plaintext passwords on some machines which caused a fatal crash.
  • Some minor fixups.

New in Reset Windows Password 5.0 (Nov 19, 2014)

  • Support for UEFI-based PCs.
  • Support for Windows 10 Technical Preview.
  • New feature for changing account flags and properties.
  • A lot of new IDE/SATA/SCSI drivers (38 Mb agains 13 Mb in previous version) were added to the program's package.
  • The program migrated to 64-bit environment in order to keep better compatibility with both BIOS- and UEFI-based computers.
  • A lot of enhancements in LM plaintext password recovery engine. More sophisticated password guessing of LM hashes.
  • Some changes in (plain-text) password search engine.
  • Update for French interface
  • Fixed a problem parsing some Active Directory accounts.

New in Reset Windows Password 4.1 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • Sector-based disk indexing tool. The program can now search for passwords by indexing and analysing raw sectors of a drive.
  • Hiberfil.sys/pagefile.sys parsing module has been revised and rewritten. The program can extract more plaintext passwords now.
  • Several enhancements in password lookup module.
  • French interface was updated by Laurent Debard.
  • Some damaged ntds.dit files may caused the program to enter a endless loop when extracting domain hashes. Fixed now.
  • Fixed a critical error parsing Outlook *.pst files. The program may failed unexpectedly when looking up for passwords.
  • Critical bug was fixed. The program failed sometimes when searching plaintext passwords on certain systems.

New in Reset Windows Password 3.1.4 (Feb 5, 2013)

  • French language interface. Thanks Laurent DEBARD who translated the program into French and suggested some additional language features.
  • Several multilingual enhancements.
  • Word analysis of the recently used files (in password lookup module) took quite a long time, so the program failed into very long loop sometimes. The problem is fixed now.

New in Reset Windows Password 3.0 (Dec 15, 2012)

  • Support for Windows Server 2012.
  • Full support for Active Directory passwords that are stored using reversible encryption. As a matter of fact, Windows uses 2 different approaches to handle reversibly encrypted passwords. Reset Windows Password can now instantly extract and decrypt the reversibly encrypted passwords using both password encryption methods: prior and after Windows 2003.
  • Added support for Diskpart and Chkdsk utilities.
  • Support for network. Simple internet browser added as well.
  • Multiple keyboard layout support. Now you can load any keyboard layout and use Alt+Shift combination to switch between them.
  • New plaintext password recovery sub-module: most recently used file parser. Here's how it works:
  • First, the program enumerates, parses and collects words in recently used files and document folders.
  • Then it discards duplicates and performs smart mutation on the list of found words to expand the wordlist.
  • Finally, the expanded wordlist is used against the password hashes.
  • The use can select between fast and deep mutation.
  • Enhanced compatibility for specific Windows 2008 R2 domain accounts. Sometimes even if the domain account password was changed successfully, Windows server 2008 was unable to recognize the new password. The problem is fixed now.
  • Several changes in Active Directory engine parser.
  • More accurate handling of corrupted Active Directory databases.

New in Reset Windows Password 2.2.4 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • New:
  • The program is fully compatible with Windows 8, supports new LiveID accounts now. Actually this is the first program that supports password resetting for LiveID. Be careful to use other programs! You can get into troubles because if you are using other tool to reset your password for Windows 8 LiveID account, you will get your account lost !
  • New plain-text password recovery module for Windows 8 has been implemented. It allows to extract text passwords for all user accounts with picture password or PIN authentication set.
  • Now the program extracts user clear-text passwords for accounts with fingerprint logon. UPEK and Windows biometric records are supported.
  • Windows Vista/7/8 WPA-PSK password decryption.
  • Improved:
  • French language interface added (thanks goes to Laurent Debard).
  • Reset Windows Password bootable disk contains no "Press any key to boot from .." prompt any more. The disk should boot up automatically.
  • Storage driver pack has been updated to support new hardware.
  • A lot of changes in DPAPI offline recovery module to make it compatible with Windows 8.
  • Password lookup algorithm was enhanced slightly.
  • Fixed:
  • Some HomeGroup account passwords were decoded improperly in Windows 8.
  • Artificial Intelligence recovery failed sometimes with critical error.
  • Critical error in password reset algorithm.

New in Reset Windows Password 2.0 (Jul 20, 2012)

  • Windows 8 RC compatibility.
  • New recovery module using Passcape Rainbow tables. The program can decrypt more password now.
  • Added support for multiple keyboard layouts in password lookup module. This feature allows to extract more non-English passwords.
  • Hebrew user interface.
  • Password lookup module has been rewritten from scratch.
  • More accurate code handling in Active Directory password reset module.
  • Fix for Artificcial Intelligence attack minor bug.

New in Reset Windows Password 1.1.2 (Feb 28, 2010)

  • English dictionary was extended up to 4 Mb.
  • Demo version can dump Active Directory hashes and domain cached credentials now.
  • Numerous bugs fixed in cache dump.
  • Some improvements in Artificial Intelligence attack.

New in Reset Windows Password 1.0.3 (Jun 30, 2009)

  • Reset windows passwords for Active Directory accounts