PC utilities: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords
- 2/27/09 4:58 PM
Password Manager
by f2327473 - 3/1/09 9:56 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Password Corral
Overview
Password Corral is our popular freeware password manager. With a clean, easy to use interface, strong encryption and all the features you would expect from a program you'd have to pay for, it's no wonder thousands of people have made it their choice for password management!
Please note, Password Corral runs on the Windows platform only.
http://www.cygnusproductions.com/freeware/pc.asp
Password management software
by simonwhite102 - 3/2/09 12:42 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Why not try RoboForm, it's freeware and does an excellent job of managing my passwords for me.
Dont worry here is the complete answer.
by alanb3 - 3/2/09 1:35 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Roboform!
I use the USB Drive Version. Basically you need just one (make it a heavy duty one, I suggest) password. You then click on a drop down list of various web pages you have been to before and that need user names and passwords. click on the link and you are taken to that page and logged in. Just like that. I love it and its not expensive. it does lots more too.
This is some of their blurb
Try RoboForm Pro for FREE
RoboForm Password Manager and Form Filler has been saving you time and making your life easier since 1999. The software automatically remembers your passwords, logs you into websites, fills long web forms, and so much more.
RoboForm is amazingly fast and easy to use, and was named PC Magazine Editor's Choice, and CNET's Download.com Software of the Year.
ROBOFORM BENEFITS:
Easy: Automatically manages your passwords and logs you into websites.
Saves Time: Fills long registration and checkout forms with one click.
Secure: Encrypts your passwords, fights phishing, and defeats keyloggers.
Intelligent: Generates random passwords to improve password security.
Portable: RoboForm2Go runs from a USB flash drive.
Hope you like it just Google for Roboform.
Password dilemma
by teretree7 - 3/2/09 1:40 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hi William G.
I don't know that I'll be of much technical assistance regarding passwords but I do know that I use just a couple of different passwords for most everything. There are sites that require at least one number in addition to letters and in those cases I use a number or two that have significance for me and add them to the one or two passwords that I regularly use. I haven't had any problems for years with this method. I'm sure there will be posters who will say this is crazy, using the same words as passwords with an additional number or two, but I think that, unless you're doing really sensitive stuff or are otherwise some sort of high-profile person (a banking executive or a CIA hotshot, for example), this is a way to remember your passwords with not a lot of angst. When I've had to create a password that is outside my normal comfort realm, I've simply written it on a sticky note and stuck it to my monitor, then when it falls off, as they inevitably do, I put it in a little box that I keep for unstuck sticky notes, with of course the password venue written on the note (i.e. US Bank #), otherwise what good is a password with no clue of what it is for?
Just my thoughts, hope it helps.
Tree
Passwords
by SGTE - 3/2/09 4:16 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
For a start - where do you keep your passwords now? Seceondly, I reccommend that you use a password manager - like Roboform - which can keep all of your passwords securely (and you can password protect the passwords too! Thirdly, where are you going to allow the passwords to be stored on your hard disk? If you have two disk drives (for instance C: and D:, keep the operating system files on C: and your data on D:) Then ensure that the passwords are stored on D: and regularly backed up. So in the event of a system crash or re-install your password data is still available. We as a business have used Roboform for a number of years and consider it an excellent product.
Password Safe
by zoinks - 3/2/09 4:35 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If it hasn't been said already, Password Safe is the best.
It's been around for years and tested.
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Try a password manager
by Stormtrek - 3/2/09 5:09 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
You can maintain passwords securely using a password manager. I like KeePass [http://keepass.info/] and KeePassX[http://www.keepassx.org/]. The software is free and works on a lot of platforms. Good Luck!
Documenting Passwords
by djprice14 - 3/2/09 5:27 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
William G.:
I hope someone has a better answer than this, but what we have been doing is either making a word doc for each one, or you could make one "Passwords" word doc that includes all of them alphabetically. Also, you can include the URL for each and use that for easy access.
I feel your pain, brother.
Dwight P.
A Great Solution
by papaurn - 3/2/09 5:38 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I manage multiple web sites for a living. I may have 3 or 4 usernames and passwords on each web site (control panel, database, email accounts, etc). All told, I'm juggling on the order of 100 username / password combinations every day. I had to do something about the same problem you're having. I purchased RoboForm. Yes, it requires a username and password itself. However, now I need only remember one username / password...my Roboform username and password.
This product stores and manages all the usernames / passwords I need for all those web sites. Roboform also allows me to use the product on my laptop in addition to my desktop. I can easily backup and restore my usernames and passwords from one machine to the other. It may have a sync feature, but I haven't used it. Roboform is secure by virtue of the username / password signon required to log into Roboform. Spend the money. Roboform is well worth it.
For the record, I have absolutely no association with Roboform other than being a very satisfied customer.
Excel works for me
by rogerp - 3/2/09 5:56 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I also have the same problem, especially since I pay many of the bills via online. So, I created an Excel spreadsheet with the URL, name, account no, user name, due date and password. I copy the password, look at the acount name and click the URL. The spread sheet is in an out-of-the-way folder and only I know what it contains so I don't see how any worm or malware could find and copy it. To be really secure I could password protect the file...
Roger
Here is my favorite password keeper
by jbartz - 3/2/09 6:07 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
There are numerous password keepers available. I have used quite a few over the years. By far my favorite is AnyPassword Pro. http://www.anypassword.com/ I used the free version while I had XP, but once I moved to Windows Vista the free version wouldn’t work. I tried a few others, but in the end I bought the Pro version because I liked it so much and I just couldn’t find the features in other products.
I also make sure to keep a copy of the data file on my thumb drive just in case my PC dies one day.
RoboForm
by edcsf - 3/2/09 6:10 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It's a great way to manage passwords. I've been using it for years. With it's encryption feature, you need only remember one password! It even will save the UserID and password when you first sign into a new site. I use the portable version which runs from a flash drive, so I can use it on my desktop at home, or my laptop when I travel.
I use a password utility called RoboForm
by tony_ansley - 3/2/09 6:26 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Roboform has both a "desktop" version and a "portable" version. The portable version runs completely from a USB key with no residual information left on the computer. This means that it is great for using on public computers at coffee shops, trade shows, etc. And I only have to remember one password...the one that locks Roboform.
Check it out.
Managing passwords
by woodm - 3/2/09 6:32 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I created an excel worksheet which includes the website, username, password and any security question answers. I have these grouped by financial & banks, credit cards & stores, utilities, school and work related. Of course the excel file is password protected so this is really the only password you need to commit to memory. Hope this helps.
KeePass password safe
by pierrot.robert - 3/2/09 6:35 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use KeePass (http://keepass.info/) to manage all my 200+ passwords. It is completly portable so I can keep the database on my USB thumbdrive and copy it to my laptop once a week for backup purposes.
It is an Open Source software and the database is encrypted with AES.
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