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Periodically saves current settings every N minutes. Enabling this option is strongly recommended.
Allows you to set an interval (in milliseconds) between progress bar and status window updates; the default is 500.
If this option is enabled, passwords are masked with asterisks.
If enabled, the program saves information displayed in the status window into the log file (ppa.log).
Minimizes the window to the system tray.
Normal or high. Setting this setting to High marginally increases performance with a major hit to your computer's responsiveness.
•User info attack: check for passwords that are equal to user names
•Windows info attack: recover cached passwords (for users HelpAssistant, VUSR_*, IIS_* etc), auto-logon password, and password saved in WinLogon process memory
•Password cache attack: chack the passwords against the 'internal' dictionary/wordlist, created from the passwords that were found during previous sessions
•Simple dictionary attack: an attack using the small but effective built-in dictionary
•Simple brute-force attack: brute-force attack on passwords for up to three characters
The first three attacks are extremely fast, and the last one usually takes just a few seconds (up to a few minutes on slow computers with many accounts).
Switches the language of the user interface.
Supported command line parameters: project name (.hdt file) and the number of threads (see Recovery process and results). To start PPA with a certain number of threads, use the following command line:
ppa.exe -threads N
where N is the number of threads.