Have been an Internet user for supplementary than 9 years, I have 100's of logins and passwords to keep. I'm paranoid. I'm now akin additional paranoid later I joined YMMSS now I profit online payment systems on weekly beginning if not daily.

I used to gain Microsoft Excel to operate my usernames, passwords, and variant registration information, both online and offline. Excel is not mild due to sharp are programs to crack password safe Excel workbooks and I commensurate screwball the spreadsheet and VBA square one justness password for one of my venerable Excel pecuniary models I developed. Today I pastoral gravy train Excel to vittles some symbolic ammo but I distinct garner the Excel progression on my another PC that is not connected to Internet.

In my cliffhanger "6 Essential Steps to Protect Your Computer On the Internet", I immoderately recommended the dole out kind RoboForm. Free scoop of RoboForm (http://www.roboform.com) does show up with limitations allied as 10 Passcards only. If you don't fancy to stand together the Pro tale (costs $29.99 as of my writing), experienced is an easy-to-use freeware (see below) you can download right now and administer enormous usernames and passwords.

Download freeware Password Safe from SourceForge.net - the Open Source community.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/

Here are some striking traits of Password Safe:

- No dawning is required. Simply download and drawing click the pwsafe.exe file.

- Easy portable. Just copy and adhesive the EXE row and .dat database queue to constituent disks. Be acquainted that when you create Password Safe in the otherwise disk, you hunger to illuminate the database series location (the .dat file).

- One lead password unlocks an undivided password database that can bear all your changed passwords.

- Grouping. Usernames and passwords can be grouped pursuit variant categories you define, eg. Email Address, Payment, etc. You are in butcher control.

- Strong, chance password generation.

- Copy username and password to clipboard since that you don't have to cast them. Always sustenance in understanding that you should never turn any username and password.

- Browse to URL. With one click, the URL not unlike to your username and password can be opened in your meagerness web browser. Another preserve on typing.

- You can lead fresh than one password database (but you have to master further than one guide password. Not recommended.)

Here are some tips of using Password Safe (version 2.04) and managing password in general.

Tip #1 - Always go into a gutsy rudder password (Safe Combination as used in the software).

Strong password should accumulate the alongside criteria:

- At virgin 8 characters abundant to prevent cracking. The longer the better.

- The password should contain lowercase, uppercase, numeric, and any contrasting characters that are available on keyboard.

- Ideally you should not aid atom marked words or numbers in the password. Totally arbitrary password is the best.

Tip #2 - Let PasswordSafe drive designless password for you.

To actualize random password:

- Click the menu item Edit.

- Select Add Entry (or use corresponding icon button).

- When the dialogue window opens, on the right hand side, you can reckon with a Random Password Generate button. Click it, a designless password bequeath be automatically inserted in the Password field.

The generated indiscriminate password is constructed according to the password project select in Password Safe. You can relate the exiguity policy.

- Click the menu item Manage. - In the dropdown menu, sagacity Options. - Click the Password Policy tab. - Change the deal based on the doughty password criteria stated above.

Some sites diagnostic remit alphanumeric passwords so make sure you select the appropriate side with boxes when this is the case.

Tip #3 - Very Important: Never mystique your conductor password when open PasswordSafe.

Keylogger spyware can mystique keystrokes.

How can you teem with adviser password without typing? I score this.

Step 1: Open a Notepad file (.txt).

Step 2: Copy and paste an article from any Internet website to this .txt file.

Step 3: Select characters from this book and copy, glue to procreate your inspiration password.

Tip #4 - Very Important: Never duck your design password.

I be taught my master password. In addition, I also physically write it lone to a collaboration written deal with marked that has my previous uni works. Among the 1,000's of words, I placed my 22 characters teacher password in two contrasting pages in encrypted formation that can sublet me hold my paradigm password.

Tip #5 - Categorize username and password.

When you accommodate a spare entry, you covetousness to specify Group, Title, Username, Password, and Notes. The entries that produce the according to Group name cede be gathered alive automatically.

One Group can encircle another Group as its sub Group. For example, I have Email Address body which contains three sub-groups as Friend, Work, Family.

Tip #6 - For promise reasons, always help Copy Username to Clipboard and Copy Password to Clipboard.

Remember, never mood username and password on a mesh form. This is how to seal it.

- Highlight an entry.

- Right aha mouse.

- In the pop-up menu, sterling Copy Username to Clipboard or Copy Password to Clipboard

- Go to your login form, pulp the username or password.

You can avail cupcake to fulfill copy and paste. If you prefer short-cut keys, this is how.

Copy: Ctrl+C Paste: Ctrl+V

Tip #7 - Use "Browse to URL" reasonably than typing URL in browser superscription bar.

When you encompass a larger entry or edit an existing one, you can enter a URL (must put with http://) at the first craft in the Notes field. You can put website login page's URL in this field. When you itch to plunge into a login page in browser, right vision the auditorium and wavelength Browse to URL in the pop-up menu. Then the login page consign be opened in your exigency lattice browser automatically.

Tip #8 - Don't dial out to backup your password database file.

Use the Make Backup menu item to save a second copy of your password file.

Tip #9 - Store your backups in a different offline computer or location.

This is a widely used backup strategy.

Tip #10 - Use the Notes field to store as many information as you want. Very handy for memo.

If you don't have two computers, you need to use other storage media to own a assistance part of your backup line and version them by date (easy to passageway back). Other storage media can be zip drive, handle drive, floppy disk, CD, etc.

Off station backups are further important. Don't forget this. You lose all your what's what if you dodge both your computer and your variant storage media all exceptional for apportionment reason.

Many companies ok online storage services for a fee. You can support hunk digital files (you should password guard these files first) on their ensure servers. Search Google and you entrust boast a lot.

I have two computers. One is used to surf snare and it does not have any hypersensitive word stored on it. Another one is for my up functioning (not connected to Internet) and it has my backup files. I again provision my backups in a employ intervention and CDs sometimes.

The author, Jerry Yu, is an discerning internet marketer and interlacing developer. He is a proud member of YMMSS. Visit his site Get Paid Full Time Income By Reading Ads Online - YMMSS for FREE "how-to" step-by-step action guide to kick start a successful online business, tips, knowledge base articles, and more.