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Registration
Q: How secure is the order process?
A: The order process is protected with a secure
Internet connection, so that the data transmitted to the
recipient can be read by the recipient only. All personal
information (such as address, credit card number, etc.) is
transmitted via a secure Internet connection and encrypted
with the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol. To find out
whether the page you are viewing is secure, take a closer
look at the prefix of the address line. Protected pages
begin with "HTTPS:".
Q: It's been several hours since I
paid for my order, but I still didn't receive the registration
key. What should I do?
A: In average, it takes about 4 hours to process the
payment and send you the registration code (normally that
takes just a few minutes.) However, the delivery time may
stretch for up to 24 hours. Sometimes it may be a problem to
receive the registration message. In your e-mail program,
check all the SPAM /Blocked/Junk mail folders where incoming
messages may fall by mistake. If you do not receive the
message with the registration code within 2 business days,
please contact our sales department.
Q: I bought the program and received
the registration code, but it does not go through. What should I
do?
A: First of all, check and make sure that you have
bough the program you wanted. It happened that customers
would buy an absolutely different program. For instance,
it's easy enough to mix up the two similar programs:
Passcape Outlook Password Recovery and Passcape Outlook
Express Password Recovery. The first one recovers passwords
for Outlook, the e-mail client from the MS Office package,
the second one recovers passwords for Outlook Express.
However, the most probable thing is you have simply mistyped
the registration code when entered it in the field on the
registration form. It is recommended to use the Copy and
Paste commands instead of typing the code by hand. To do
that, select the license key text in the registration
message you have received with the mouse or using the text
selection keyboard shortcuts (Shift + arrow keys). Then
press the Ctrl + Ins shortcut on the keyboard to copy the
selected block to Windows' Clipboard. Then open the
registration window in the program, place the cursor in the
registration key field and then press the Shift + Ins
shortcut on the keyboard to paste the text from clipboard to
that field. Next, place the cursor in the user name field,
enter your name and then click on the Register button. If
you have done everything right, the program will display the
confirmation message. If you still have registration
problems, please address them to our technical support
service. We will be glad to help you.
Q: I have reinstalled Windows and
lost my registration code for the program. What can I do to
recover it?
A: Contact our sales department and describe your
situation to them. Please include the approximate date when
you purchased the program and the registration e-mail
address. We will re-send you the message with your
registration data.
Q: The program does not run/runs with
errors on my computer. Can I get a refund?
A: Yes, if the following conditions are met:
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You are requesting the
refund not later than within 14 since the moment when
you purchased the program
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You are going to assist
us in find out what causes the failure on your computer
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You will have to give us
a proof (you can send it to us via e-mail) that you have
completely erased all copies of the program and the
license key, including the registration message you
received.
Q: I have bought a wrong program by
mistake. Can I get a refund?
A: No, you cannot. However, you can exchange your
registration key for one our other programs (within 14 since
the purchase date). Please contact our technical support
service for further instructions.
Q: I own a personal license. May I
install the program on several computers?
A: No, you may not. Please refer to your license
agreement.
Q: May I install the program on
several computers if I own a business license?
A: Yes, you may. You may install the program on any
number of computers within your organization.
Q: Do you offer discounts on
purchasing several programs at once?
A: When you purchase all programs at once, you are
entitled for the 30% discount off the grand total.
Q: I liked the program, but it is
too expensive for me. May I have any discounts on the purchase?
A: Yes, you may. We currently offer these three
discounts:
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Holidays - you may have
up to 10% off if you purchase a program during a
holiday.
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Discounts to active users
- if you have found significant shortages or errors in
the program and actively contribute to fixing thereof,
we will grant you a 50% discount.
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Special occasions - if
you actively contribute to the development of the
program, you have a chance to get a completely free copy
of the program. You may also be entitled for a free copy
of the program by translating the program's interface
(text file of 10-30 kb) to your native language.
Q: Does my registration code get
removed from the computer if I uninstall the program?
A: Yes, it will be removed. Uninstall will do that
for you.
Technical
Q: The program is not downloading
from your website. And the website is actually not working.
A: That's probably because the server is temporarily
down. Please e-mail our technical support team and try
accessing the server a bit later. You can also try to
download the program you need through alternative links. For
example, you can use the software archive www.download.com
Q: Downloaded the program's setup
file but cannot open it - checksum error.
A: Most likely, an error occurred while downloading
the program's setup file, and it is now damaged. For
instance, some older versions of Opera browser used to have
such problems with downloading files. Please try to download
the program once again. If the error persists, please
address it to our technical support service. You can also
ask them to send you the setup file via e-mail.
Q: I have downloaded the program
from your server but cannot open it. What should I do?
A: The program's setup file that you have downloaded
from our server is a zip-compressed file. All versions of
Windows, starting with Windows XP, have the built-in support
for the zip format. If you are using such operating system,
you will need to simply open the zip file (for example, by
double-clicking on its icon in Windows Explorer) and run
Setup.exe contained in the archive and then follow the
installation wizard instructions. If you have an older
version of Windows, which does not support the zip format,
you will need to install WinZip or a similar program.
Q: Various errors occur during
installation.
A: Make sure you have the read/write permissions for
the program's installation folder (or ask your system
administration to do that for you.) You can also try
choosing a different installation folder. If you are
upgrading from an older version, make sure you have closed
all running instances of the program before running
Setup.exe.
Q: I am a computer newbie. Please
tell me in details what should I do to recover the passwords...
A: At least two things: download the program from our
server and install it on your computer. Let's look at the
details of this now: You can download the latest version of
the program from our Website, in the Download section.
Simply click on the corresponding hyperlink and follow the
your browser's instructions.
Once the program is downloaded, you will need to install it.
Run Windows Explorer and then open the program setup file
(it is compressed to the *.zip file) and then run Setup.exe.
Then follow the installation wizard's instructions. When the
installation is complete, the wizard will ask whether you
want to run the program now. Run the program and follow the
startup Wizard's instructions.
Q: Your program shows wrong
passwords. How can that happen? I demand that you return my
money.
A: The program recovers and displays passwords that
are stored on your computer, and it cannot hold the
responsibility for their "correctness" or "wrongness". If
you doubt that the program functions properly, please
contact our technical support service to find out the
details.
P.S. Sometimes PWCDKEY users report that the Windows CD key
displayed by the program differs from the one on the label.
That is especially true for owners of Dell computers.
Indeed, preinstalled operating systems on some Dell
computers are activated already and do not require the CD
key during installation, since it is already stored in the
winnt.sif file and entered automatically, not requiring
user's participation. However, the key stored in the
operating system's registry may differ from the one on the
label. And that's the key PWCDKEY recovers.
Q: I e-mailed your technical support
but still did not receive any response.
A: Your technical support request should be normally
replied to within 1-2 business days (normally within an
hour). Delays may occur because:
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Time zone difference
sometimes causes the delay of up to 1 day.
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Holidays or weekend.
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Mail server failure (on
either sender's or recipient's side).
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But most likely your
message is blocked by an anti-SPAM filter. In this case,
try sending your message once again in the Plain-Text
format instead of HTML, do not apply any formatting to
it. All modern e-mail clients allow doing this.
Q: Can you guarantee that no data
will be sent from my computer during the downloading of an
interface language file?
A: Yes, we guarantee that not a single bit of data
will be sent from your computer.
General
Q: What forms the program's cost?
A: The program's cost depends on many factors. Those,
for instance, include the competition's pricing, payback,
and prime cost. The main element that affects pricing is the
time invested in the development of the program. Besides the
direct costs involved in the development, there are indirect
ones also. Those include commercials, hosting services,
submissions, translations, technical assistance, etc. Due to
these reasons, in the future, most likely, our products'
pricing is not going to vary. At least, the prices are not
going to grow.
Q: Can I become your dealer or
affiliate?
Q: I need to recover my old
passwords as soon as possible: But I am afraid I am going to
catch a virus or trojan if I install your program on my
computer.
A: All our programs are compiled to a setup file on a
computer that is not connected to a public network.
Nevertheless, the setup files are double-checked with
anti-virus software. The programs themselves have the
built-in integrity check mechanisms that protect the program
and prevent the invasion of malware. Besides that, each
setup file is sent to hundreds of file archives, which also
virus-check them on their side.
If you still suspect our programs to contain malware, please
contact our technical support service. Be sure to include
the program name and the full version, setup file size and,
if possible, the place on the Internet where you downloaded
the program.
Q: Not ever again shall I buy
programs from hackers like you.
A: :) Our main goal, although it sounds weird, is not
generating profit. Our employees are the job's fans, who
love their job and value their skills. Our main goal is to
create unique things that are not like the rest. Indeed,
each our program has something that places a good light on
it among the competition. In this prospective - yes, we are
hackers, in the good, original meaning of this word.
Another goal that we would like to convey to you as much as
possible is to show all the strong and weak spots of the
password protection in its current state. The trend in the
modern high-tech development suggests that password
protection, possibly, will come to naught in the nearest
future. This is our exceptional opinion, however, which does
not pretend to be the absolute truth. Very soon we may laugh
at how we used to have to enter password every time we
loaded an operating system or logged on to a website, and
how software developers made us create passwords that caused
nightmares of ones and zeros:
If a program makes you enter a long, multiple-character
password motivating that it cares of your safety - don't
believe it. The software developer - not you - must have
thought of safety. A great example for such program is
WinRar, the file compression utility. It stores passwords
using the irreversible encryption, and it is hard to pick
even a 6 or 7-character password for it using a modern
computer.
So, remember that your safety is in the program developer's
hands and not in yours.
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