I think I should have writen down my pass words

[welsh wizard]

I made all the drives on all systems to zero fill and formated and installed again, but forgot to save all passwords, now each I visit a site end up with a pile of different log in passwords, now if any one get into system it'l take a month to figure out which one to use where. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
WW

[Axel]

The price of "too much" browsing perhaps?

Wish you well, amigo - hope you do recover. Chances are this will be a good house-cleaning for your systems, even though it was definitely unwanted.

[Mntsnow]

WW,

I created a little "notepad" document where I type in all my passwords and saved it to a floppy disk and that floppy is stored in my gun safe. as I learned to this from haveing done a format and reinstall with out saving my passwords before too ! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

I do feel for ya http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Mntsnow

[AQR8]

Good tip Mtnsnow. I'm going to do that to avoid similar difficulty down the road.

Good luck WW

AQR8

[welsh wizard]

I have found with some sites that I can't even get a new password as they say my details don't match there system, so I have lost my WW log in http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif I now know how Gradius felt over his problem now. man it sucks.
only consulation is I know all systems are 100% clean, even my win instal system.
WW

[Serge]

I do exactly the same thing as Mntsnow (above) - gun safe + second floppy (copy).. just to be on the safe side.

[Glytzhkof]

I've experienced several "catastrophies" with my system, and the advice to keep a separate floppy with passwords is good. However I just want to add another approach:

Install PGP-disk and create a directory structure there to keep all your passwords readily accessible to you but totally inaccessible to others (and product keys such as windows, office etc...). Place the PGP-file on your D:\ drive and you'll have a "format proof" system.

I use such an encrypted drive for all my personal stuff: passwords, emails, bookmarks etc... I stick the pgp-disk mount shortcut in the "Startup menu" of my system so that I get the passphrase prompt when Windows is started. This allows me to mount the PGP-disk very easily. Since all these personal settings are contained within a single encrypted file I can just dump the file to a CD feeling safe since the file is encrypted on the CD too (you can also encrypt the keys inside the PGP-disk with your own PGP-disk creating a very safe system indeed).

[Susan]

I actually have them hand written in the back of my address book where there are those extra pages.

[BBA]

I just changed them all to the same thing...

If a site won't let me change the PW, I won't like that site.

[montanafan]

I have them all written down and the list is stuck right under the old keyboard.

[Glytzhkof]

Susan, BBA & montanafan: Well, those were well working and safe systems I'm sure, but how safe are they now after being broadcasted to the world? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Maybe my system is slightly "paranoid", but I had to set it up for some of my work related files (it was a requirement), and thus I transferred all my personal settings to the encrypted disk as well. You should try it, it works really well.

[felix726]

Hey guys you might want to check these out. They work a lot better than using a text document because the programms themselves are password protected. So in theory you would have to remember only one password, I think even the senior members can handle that LOL http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

http://www.ivory.org/whisper.html
this is the one I use and it's got plenty of bells and whistles (and best of all it's free)

http://www.infokeep.net
this is alittle nicer, but won't fit on a floppy and will also cost you $25.00 if you want the full version.

hope this helps
-felix

darn keyboard http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by felix726 (edited 12-31-1999).]