Friday, 20 December 2013

How to Unlock password protected ZIP files without knowing password

How to Unlock password protected ZIP files without knowing password


ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A .ZIP file may contain one or more files or folders that may have been compressed. The .ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms. You might have got the zip file from forums, websites which had a password to get the contents present inside the file and unfortunately you didn't have that one! Here I will show you how to unlock .zip files without knowing the password. The trick may not applicable if some sort of encryption techniques have been used.

Unlock password protected ZIP files without knowing password
Unlock password protected ZIP files without knowing password


Steps you have to perform
1. Click here to visit website archive.online-convert.com.
2. For testing purpose, create a zip file with your own password . I have used the utility Winrar to create ZIP file with password as "qwert1234". Follow the steps as I have shown in below pic.

Unlock password protected ZIP files without knowing password


3. Go back to the website, click on "Choose file" and select the zip file just created in above step. Click on "Convert".

Unlock password protected ZIP files without knowing password

4. Done, you will get following prompt. Download the converted file from their server. Now check whether the zip file have password or not! All the files inside the zip file are now unlocked!
Unlock password protected ZIP files without knowing password
Note: This tutorial is not applicable for .RAR

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