Can anyone recommend a tool for removing/cracking add-in passwords?

It is extremely frustrating having some wizzy add-ins and to not be able to
make our own tools.

A quick google gives me pages of these tools but i would like to get a
verbal recommendation rather than end up downloading loads of junk.

thanks

richard

Are you talking about removing (and/or adding) your own known passwords, or
hacking into files you shouldn't.

Regards,
Peter T


"Richard Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can anyone recommend a tool for removing/cracking add-in passwords?
>
> It is extremely frustrating having some wizzy add-ins and to not be able
> to make our own tools.
>
> A quick google gives me pages of these tools but i would like to get a
> verbal recommendation rather than end up downloading loads of junk.
>
> thanks
>
> richard
>

i knew i would get a question like that...

i would like to remove/find the password of add-ins that we are not given
the password for as the product then becomes unsupported. We are currently
restricted to functionality that they choose to give us - not what we can
build ourselves.

thanks

rich

"Peter T" <peter_t@discussions> wrote in message
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> Are you talking about removing (and/or adding) your own known passwords,
> or hacking into files you shouldn't.
>
> Regards,
> Peter T
>
>
> "Richard Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Can anyone recommend a tool for removing/cracking add-in passwords?
>>
>> It is extremely frustrating having some wizzy add-ins and to not be able
>> to make our own tools.
>>
>> A quick google gives me pages of these tools but i would like to get a
>> verbal recommendation rather than end up downloading loads of junk.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> richard
>>
>
>

>i knew i would get a question like that...

If you knew that why not say in the OP. What probably did not know, had your
objective been to open multiple workbooks with known password (and/or change
the password) I would have offered you a little app to do that.

Next obvious question - why not ask the developer for the password.

Regards,
Peter T


"Richard Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:uJKt$(E-Mail Removed)...
>i knew i would get a question like that...
>
> i would like to remove/find the password of add-ins that we are not given
> the password for as the product then becomes unsupported. We are currently
> restricted to functionality that they choose to give us - not what we can
> build ourselves.
>
> thanks
>
> rich
>
> "Peter T" <peter_t@discussions> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Are you talking about removing (and/or adding) your own known passwords,
>> or hacking into files you shouldn't.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Peter T
>>
>>
>> "Richard Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Can anyone recommend a tool for removing/cracking add-in passwords?
>>>
>>> It is extremely frustrating having some wizzy add-ins and to not be able
>>> to make our own tools.
>>>
>>> A quick google gives me pages of these tools but i would like to get a
>>> verbal recommendation rather than end up downloading loads of junk.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> richard
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Thanks for your help


"Peter T" <peter_t@discussions> wrote in message
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> >i knew i would get a question like that...
>
> If you knew that why not say in the OP. What probably did not know, had
> your objective been to open multiple workbooks with known password (and/or
> change the password) I would have offered you a little app to do that.
>
> Next obvious question - why not ask the developer for the password.
>
> Regards,
> Peter T
>
>
> "Richard Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:uJKt$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>i knew i would get a question like that...
>>
>> i would like to remove/find the password of add-ins that we are not given
>> the password for as the product then becomes unsupported. We are
>> currently restricted to functionality that they choose to give us - not
>> what we can build ourselves.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> rich
>>
>> "Peter T" <peter_t@discussions> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Are you talking about removing (and/or adding) your own known passwords,
>>> or hacking into files you shouldn't.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Peter T
>>>
>>>
>>> "Richard Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Can anyone recommend a tool for removing/cracking add-in passwords?
>>>>
>>>> It is extremely frustrating having some wizzy add-ins and to not be
>>>> able to make our own tools.
>>>>
>>>> A quick google gives me pages of these tools but i would like to get a
>>>> verbal recommendation rather than end up downloading loads of junk.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> richard
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Richard,

You can crack VBA passwords to your own projects quite easily if you forget the password - see the
instructions at http://www.schmittis-page.de/index.h...l/vba/t48e.htm

But note that a lot of addins are simply shells that are used to control calls to compiled dll or
xll files, and you will learn nothing by looking at them. A lot of the most popular add-ins are not
copy protected anyway, since they are given away and the authors want you to learn from their code.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Richard Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Can anyone recommend a tool for removing/cracking add-in passwords?
>
> It is extremely frustrating having some wizzy add-ins and to not be able to make our own tools.
>
> A quick google gives me pages of these tools but i would like to get a verbal recommendation
> rather than end up downloading loads of junk.
>
> thanks
>
> richard
>

very handy thanks vm!


"Bernie Deitrick" <deitbe @ consumer dot org> wrote in message
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> Richard,
>
> You can crack VBA passwords to your own projects quite easily if you
> forget the password - see the instructions at
> http://www.schmittis-page.de/index.h...l/vba/t48e.htm
>
> But note that a lot of addins are simply shells that are used to control
> calls to compiled dll or xll files, and you will learn nothing by looking
> at them. A lot of the most popular add-ins are not copy protected anyway,
> since they are given away and the authors want you to learn from their
> code.
>
> HTH,
> Bernie
> MS Excel MVP
>
>
> "Richard Edwards" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Can anyone recommend a tool for removing/cracking add-in passwords?
>>
>> It is extremely frustrating having some wizzy add-ins and to not be able
>> to make our own tools.
>>
>> A quick google gives me pages of these tools but i would like to get a
>> verbal recommendation rather than end up downloading loads of junk.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> richard
>>
>
>