Your old PC might hold a crypto fortune

Wallet artifacts, validated recovery material and public traces; supported exchange-account clues; and labelled credentials, password-export CSVs and private-key containers in Privacy check. Unsupported areas are not a clean-device certificate.

Checks are read-only and local. Saved history keeps paths and metadata locally, not raw secret values. Trial telemetry sends app-use metadata; optional public Bitcoin lookups send the selected address only after consent.

Trial has three uses shared between scans and backup checks, with recovery paths hidden. Home adds unlimited checks, full paths, reports, saved comparisons, backup comparisons and repeat checks. Technician includes Home plus customer cases, notes, a ten-source queue, image candidates and encrypted reports.

Checksum and structure validators, context checks, noise suppression, and deduplication reduce false positives.

Yes. Attach or mount the drive and choose its path, or enter a custom folder.

Balanced (default), NVMe High for very fast SSDs, or HDD Safe for slower disks.

Pro can save JSON and HTML recovery reports. Safe Summary copies a redacted support summary without paths, seeds, keys, or full tokens.

Noisy system artifacts, large or binary files, and known irrelevant caches are skipped or given lower priority.

Pro uses a signed license file verified locally by the app. Production builds reject unsigned licenses.

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A matching hash establishes identical bytes, not a valid or restorable wallet. Database headers alone do not verify wallet records or keys. Recover access works locally with supported Bitcoin Core, Ethereum v3, standard Electrum and complete direct MetaMask vault inputs. Use a known password or a bounded search based on your own hints. Supported GPU jobs can use a trusted Hashcat backend with CPU fallback and independent CPU verification. Protected sessions support continuing eligible work. Only supported variants qualify. Search time depends on encryption and candidate count; success and funds are not guaranteed. Never use this on wallets without authorization.

No. Daily/weekly checks run only while CryptoTrace is open. Missed checks run after reopening when the app is idle. No Windows service or startup task is installed.

Not necessarily. Read the coverage details: encrypted or nested archives, images, PDF/OCR and unsupported formats are not inspected. Correct a working copy yourself and check again; CryptoTrace does not delete files or revoke credentials.

Home and Technician include deleted-wallet recovery. Choose Deleted wallets, select the physical drive and save to another physical disk. Trial requires activation before recovery starts. Supports 512-byte logical sectors, including 512e; 4Kn is unsupported. Overwritten, erased or incomplete data may be unrecoverable. Encryption is preserved; recovered files can contain secrets. Recovery, wallet access and funds are not guaranteed. Trial cannot run or preview deleted-data recovery. Activate a paid Home or Technician license to start it.

Quick checks known wallet locations. Deep searches file contents. Old drives and Browser wallets focus the search; Technician adds forensic-image candidate scans. Select This PC, a drive or a folder. Use Advanced for a custom path and Settings for exclusions and an SSD, NVMe or HDD performance profile.

Recover access works locally with supported Bitcoin Core, Ethereum v3, standard Electrum and complete direct MetaMask vault inputs. Use a known password or a bounded search based on your own hints. Supported GPU jobs can use a trusted Hashcat backend with CPU fallback and independent CPU verification. Protected sessions support continuing eligible work. Only supported variants qualify. Search time depends on encryption and candidate count; success and funds are not guaranteed. Never use this on wallets without authorization.

Quick, Deep, Old drive/folder and Browser wallet modes address different search scopes. Technician also has forensic-image scanning. Advanced selects a custom source; Settings controls exclusions, text budgets and SSD/NVMe/HDD profiles. Exclusions apply to discovered filenames and resolved link targets as well as selected paths. Fast reuse trusts file size and timestamp. Same-size, same-time changes can be missed; limited reads and skips remain coverage gaps.