Free Access Password Recovery helps you recover the password to a Microsoft Access database you own, free and with no time limit. It runs entirely on your PC’s CPU — a lightweight tool for the occasional one-off job.
What the free edition does
It searches with a dictionary of common words and a basic brute-force search over short passwords — enough for simple or guessable passwords on an Access database you own. It’s deliberately basic:
- CPU only — no graphics-card acceleration, so it’s much slower on tougher passwords.
- Office documents only — Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, not archives or PDFs.
- Core methods only — the advanced Smart (mask and pattern) methods come with the full edition.
Legacy .mdb databases (Access 97–2003) are usually recovered quickly even here. For modern .accdb databases,
long passwords, GPU speed and Smart methods, the full Office Password Recovery —
which includes Access — is what actually gets the job done.
Frequently asked
Is it really free? Yes — free to download and use, no time limit, for recovering passwords to your own Access databases.
It didn’t find my password. Long or complex passwords are beyond a CPU-only search. The full Office Password Recovery adds GPU acceleration and Smart methods, which dramatically improve your chances.