How to Extract 7z File Without Password?

The most often used service for bulk folder and files compression is archiving files/folders in 7zip files. To reduce the size of bulk folders, a wide range of users, including IT experts as well as home users prefers using 7z/zip file compression program. Users may also can encrypt these 7z files to protect their data from unauthorised access.

The 7z file encryption method is both beneficial and vital in protecting our data. However, users may encounter a situation in which they become unable to access their essential data from 7z file. The cause of this issue is a forgotten password.

Now let's see which is the best method available which will help you in this situation.

How to Extract 7z File Without Password?

If you want to extract a 7z file without a password, we regret to inform you that this is not achievable. There is currently no direct solution for extracting 7z files without a password available on the market.

However, you do not need to be worried because a solution is available to assist users.

The solution is, Recover lost 7z Passwords with the automatic eSoftTools 7z Password Recovery Tool. After recovery put the password to your 7z file and extract all data from 7z file easily.

The entire instructions with two phases are shown below; simply follow them all to effortlessly recover password and extract a 7z file: -

Step 1:- Use eSoftTools 7z Password Recovery Tool & Recover forgotten 7z password

1. Download 7z Password Recovery Tool and run it on any machine that runs Windows O/S.

2. Select encrypted 7z file from its location by pressing the Browse File button from the first screen.

3. After selecting files, choose a recovery technique from the options:-

   1. Brute Force Attack:- Select this option and search for a password guessing the password combinations of letters and numbers (numeric, alphabetic, symbolic characters).

   2. Mask Attack: Enter the password's known character to recover only the lost password's unknown digits/letters to make the password recovery process much faster.

   3. Dictionary Attack: Recover passwords of any English word from the software's built-in dictionary file.

4. Choose a recovery strategy(as per your need) and then click on Next button. Set the length of the password, choose a character set, or select or import dictionary files.

5. Finally, to begin the 7z Archive Password Recovery process, press the Recover button.

The software will take a little time to finish the 7z Archive Password recovery process and display the 7z file password on a new window.

After this, select and copy the complete text/characters of the password in single click by pressing the copy to clipboard button. Simply click OK to exit from the software.

Complete working video

Step 2: Extract Encrypted 7z file by using the recovered password.

1. Go to the location of the 7z file in Windows Explorer.

2. Right-click on your password-protected 7z file, and select the 7-ZIP option.

3. Then select one of the choices. Extract to "*_folder_*", Extract Files or Extract Here.

4. Now quickly start the data extraction process from 7z Archive files.

Conclusion

By archiving data in 7z files users get the facility to compress their huge sized multiple type of data in single 7z file. However, if the user forgets the 7z file password, extracting the file becomes extremely difficult.

And when a user forgets the password the only technique to extract 7z files, recover the lost password. Using automated tools, such as eSoftTools 7z Password Recovery software, it will become easy for you to retrieve lost 7z file passwords.

A free trial version of this utility you can also download and try to learn more about its capabilities.