How to remove or decrypt a 7-zip password when I forgot

Using the Built-in 7-Zip Command Line if you are learning how to decrypt a 7-Zip password on Windows PC? It's all about using the -p switch when you run the command. This is the simplest way to understand how to decrypt a 7-Zip password and extract your files. You just fire up the Command Prompt and use a command like this:

bash

7z x archive. 7z -pYourPassword

In this command, x tells 7-Zip to extract the archive with the full path, and -pYourPassword is where you put the actual password. The password has to be right after the -p with no spaces in between.

7-Zip's command line parser doesn't work exactly like the normal Windows command line, and it can trip up on special characters.

Regular special characters like §, _, or . usually work fine if you just wrap the whole password in quotes.

The real headache is the double quote ("). For reasons explained by the creator of 7-Zip, Igor Pavlov, you can't easily pass a password that contains a " using the standard -p switch. You can try all sorts of escaping tricks like \", but they just won't work.