System and Data Recovery Programs > Proactive System Password Recovery > Working with PSPR

The program supports keyboard shortcuts. Use CTRL-<digit> to select the high-level menu item, and ALT-<digit> to switch to the low-level item under it (in order).

Main menu (CTRL-1)

•Logon password

•Cached passwords1

•RAS entries

•Shared info

•Recovered hashes2

•Screensaver password1

•Domain cached credentials3

Advanced features (CTRL-2)

•Groups and users2

•NT secrets3

•Run as2

•Windows CD key

•Net passwords4

Revelation (CTRL-3)

•Behind asterisks

•Control reviver

•Registry and AD2

•Password reset disk4

•Mail/FTP server emulator

Misc (CTRL-4)

Recover PWL (CTRL-5)

•View PWL file

•Brute-force attack

•Dictionary attack

Options (CTRL-6)

•General options

•PWL bruteforce options

•PWL dictionary options

•NT hash options

Help (CTRL-7)

•Register the program

•Help

•About

•System information

1 Available only in Windows 95, Windows 9 and Windows Me

2 Available only in Windows NT and up

3 Available only in Windows 2000 and up

4 Available only in Windows XP and up

5 Available only in Windows XP SP1 and up, when Wireless Zero Configuration service is used

The program also supports a few command-line switches:

-h	Help (shows command line switches)
-c <archive file name> <file or mask>	Compress the given file(s) into CAB archive
-d	Delayed run (starts after 10 seconds)
-u <user name> [-p <password>]	Starts using the credentials of the given user
-v <PWL-file> [-u <user name> [-p <password>]]	Shows PWL file using given user name and password
-noipr	Disables the IPR* feature

*IPR stands for Intelligent Password Recovery, a unique feature of PSPR that works transparently to help recover long and complex passwords and improve performance. When enabled, the program collects all passwords from the system on startup from secrets, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, Mozilla, some network clients, network credentials etc. Then, all those passwords are compiled into an internal dictionary/wordlist that is saved as passdef.ssd in the program folder. The list is then used in the recovery tasks where a brute-force or dictionary attack is required.

However, collecting/updating IPR data may take some time - usually a few minutes, but sometimes more. Also, the program may even 'hang' on that step (i.e. when it starts) on certain circumstances, i.e. on a heavy loaded systems with a lot of accounts. If you encounter such problem, simply terminate PSPR from the Task Manager and restart it with -noipr switch.

User interface