Hello Fernando,

Not a great solution, but at least something to consider if you have processing time to throw at it. Since the winzip can be command line driven, you can write a program in VFP (or something else) which gererates all possible passwords, EX a b c d....aa ab ac... etc using a couple loops. Then embed these passwords one by one into a command string and execute. You will probally have to let this run a couple of days/weeks/months depending on how long the password is and how fast your computer, but should only take a few minutes of your time to write the program.

Like I said it's not a great solution, but one I have actually used sucessfully! Mine took 3 days to find the right password, good luck

Bob
>Hi,
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>People from a client asked me to update an old FoxWin system they had. They gave me the source files (the whole Fox project) in a ZIP file. When I tried to unzip the files winzip asked for a password. As I didn't have the password I asked my client's people what was the password. They didn't know it (even that the file was password protected)! We tried some "possible" or "usual" passwords but it didn't work.
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>Last time that system had some mantainance was 7+ years ago, and the guy responsible for that system didn't work any more at my clients shop. We tried to find him, and we found. We told him about the problem, but he didn't remember the password. He suggested us us to "try" some other "possible" passwords, but...
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>We're know at a dead lock, we already tried AZPC and UZPC but they weren't able to crack the password.
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>Any ideas on what could be done, or even some tips in using the above programs?
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>Thanks in advance,
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>Fernando