Introduction

Up to 40% of support calls are related to forgotten passwords and locked logins. Recover or reset Windows system passwords easily and automatically! There is no need to format the disk or reinstall Windows. Just boot from the CD and unlock your system in a matter of minutes! Elcomsoft System Recovery can reset account passwords instantly, while supporting full-scale attacks to recover the original passwords. ESR also unlocks locked and disabled user and administrative accounts in Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, and the latest Windows 2008 Server.

Elcomsoft System Recovery comes ready to boot from a CD, and makes it easy to create a bootable USB Flash Drive. No need to create a bootable disc and no need to reach for a Windows setup disks to make one! ElcomSoft has licensed the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) directly from Microsoft, allowing the company to distribute the completely working bootable Windows environment based on Windows Server 2003.

If there are no EFS-encrypted files on your Windows account, an instant unlock option is the quickest and easiest way to gain access to user and administrative accounts. Elcomsoft System Recovery resets forgotten passwords with a new password supplied by you, allowing for immediate login without the time-consuming password recovery operations.

Elcomsoft System Recovery bootable environment supports a variety of hardware components, including the most popular hard disk controllers, thanks to Windows drivers. Unlike the various emulation environments, Elcomsoft System Recovery is genuinely compatible with the latest revisions of Microsoft file systems, including the latest versions of the FAT and NTFS.

In case you must know an original password to a Windows account, Elcomsoft System Recovery is fully equipped with everything needed to recover the password. Common passwords and dictionary attack are attempted first hand, and take only minutes with good chances of retrieving a password.

Elcomsoft System Recovery knows places where system passwords are cached, often allowing for instant password recovery.

Offline password recovery is easily possible by dumping hashed passwords from SAM/SYSTEM files or Active Directory database for further analysis off-line analysis. ElcomSoft recommends Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery for highly scalable, GPU-accelerated recovery of system passwords.

	Basic	Standard	Professional

Supports Windows Vista	+	+	+
Supports Windows NT/2000/XP workstations	+	+	+
Supports Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 servers	-	+	+
Supports non-US Windows versions	+	+	+
Multilingual user interface	+	+	+
Automatic mode (list of installed systems)	+	+	+
Manual mode (browse for Registry files)	-	+	+
Password reset CD	+	+	+
Creates a password reset UFD	-	+	+
Reset local Administrator password	+	+	+
Enable/unlock Administrator account	-	+	+
Reset password to other user accounts	+	+	+
Highlight accounts with Administrator rights	-	+	+
Look up account privileges	-	-	+
Enable/unlock disabled/locked accounts	-	+	+
Give Administrator privileges to any user account	-	-	+
Recover passwords for some system accounts	-	-	+
Reset Domain Administrator password	-	-	+
Reset AD users password	-	-	+
Dump password hashes for local accounts	-	+	+
Dump password hashes for AD accounts	-	-	+
Show LM/NTLM hashes	-	-	+
Show password history hashes	-	-	+
Test short and simple passwords	-	-	+
SAM database editor	-	-	+