How to Extract Password Protected RAR Files without Password

It’s convenient and safe to compress files to RAR file. Setting password to protect RAR files further increases the security of files. However, there is also a problem that how to extract password protected RAR files without password. This problem comes about in many cases. For instance, you yourself forgot or lost the password, or you download a RAR file from the web but find it password protected so that you can’t extract the files in it. In such cases, how can you extract password protected RAR files without knowing the password?

Now I’ll show how to find password from an encrypted RAR file and then extract files from it. Grasping this method, you don’t need to worry about forgetting RAR password any more. It’s convenient for you to unlock encrypted RAR files.

Part 1: Password encrypts RAR file

In this part, let’s see how to set password to protect a RAR file so that anyone wants to extract the files need to enter the correct password.

Step 1: If you only compress one file to RAR file, just right click the file and select Add to archive. If you compress more than one file to RAR archive, firstly put the files into one folder, then right click the folder and select Add to archive.

Step 2: Click the Set password button.

Step 3: Enter password in the box and then click OK to confirm. If you check the box next to “Encrypt file names”, it means you will be unable to open the encrypted RAR file without password. If you uncheck it, it will show you the names of the file compressed in the RAR when you double click the RAR file.

When this step is complete, the RAR file is password encrypted.

Part 2: Extract password protected RAR files without password.

To find password from encrypted RAR file, here introduce the most powerful software called iSumsoft RAR Password Refixer, which can help find password from password protected RAR file.

Step 1: Download iSumsoft RAR Password Refixer and install it on your computer.

Step 2: Run this software. Click the Open button.

Navigate to the path to the password protected RAR archive. Select it and click Open button to add it into this software.

Step 3: Select one password attack type from Brute-force, Mask, Dictionary, and Smart.

Step 4: Click the Start button to start to find RAR password.

Step 5: Extract password protected RAR files with the password.

Tips: Usually, the ordinary RAR password cracking software find RAR password by brute-force attack, which makes it take very long time to find RAR password. But this iSumsoft RAR Password Refixer provides four more advanced password attack types including Brute-force, Mask, Dictionary, and Smart. Learning more basic principles about Dictionary and Mask password recovery, you can choose the most suitable password attack type so that this software can find RAR archive password within the shortest time. iSumsoft RAR Password Refixer should be one of the best software which helps extract password protected RAR files without password.