A regular, (on your computer) or a disk on key, which will allow the ability to install and run the program and save your password database on a USB Key Drive to carry it with you and plug it in and use it on any other Windows Computer you want. Click the I agree button to agree to the license agreement, and now a prompt with a dialogue box that asks what type of install you would like. Next choose a language from the next popup, English is the default, and click on the OK button. If you receive a Windows security warning dialog click on the run button. The freely available Open Source version of Password Safe can be downloaded from this web link.(you could also choose run and not download the file if you just want to automatically install the program.) Once downloaded Password Safe, click on the pwsafe-3.27.exe file to install the program. I'll start by explaining on how to find, download and install Password Safe for Windows. Read on and I will explain to you more about PasswordSafe, how to get it and a bit how to use it. By portable I mean that you will be able to access your passwords from almost any computer or mobile device you own, including your iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, and computer! Further you can organize your passwords into file folders by type of password. And with its intuitive interface you will be up and running in minutes."īasically Password Safe will allow you to save all of your passwords into an encrypted "safe" file that is even very portable if you want it to be. You can choose to store all your passwords in a single encrypted master password list (an encrypted password database), or use multiple databases to further organize your passwords (work and home, for example). "Using Password Safe you can organize your passwords using your own customizable references-for example, by user ID, category, web site, or location. Once stored, your user names and passwords are just a few clicks away. This quote is from the SourceForge website, " Password Safe allows you to manage your old passwords and to easily and quickly generate, store, organize, retrieve, and use complex new passwords, using password policies that you control. Just make CERTAIN that you choose a strong safe combination to open your safe and strong dropbox password! Now grant it, you STILL have to remember a single safe combination password for Password Safe in order to open up your safe and enter your DropBox credentials as necessary once to setup the programs with my solution, but it is far better than having to remember sometimes hundreds of passwords. My INEXPENSIVE solution to this problem(meaning free) is an open source program called Password Safe along with DropBox. How do you remember them all? The truth is, you can not! I never had a problem accessing their stuff.lol.Īnd still users are faced with the issue that not all sites let you set your own password type and require all sorts of stupid combinations for your password. Just make sure no one gets ahold of your base password though! My users were notorious for still writing down the base password and posting it on a sticky note on their monitor. That way they could have a different yet easy to remember password for each site. For example if your base password is dog8kitty, you would use yahoodog8kitty or dog8kittyyahoo for your yahoo password. I do not like doing this at all! I try to use a different password for every site I visit and it is a good habit and practice that I reccomend for EVERY person on the Internet.īack in the day, I used to reccomend to my staff members that if they really had a hard time remembering their many passwords, they could pick any base eight to ten character non dictionary word or phrase and than attach the name of the website to the front or the end of it. It is getting out of hand! Lots of sites allow logon using a Facebook, Google or other common password service. Lately every single web site that I have been visiting has required a password.
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