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1442807	2017-11-29 22:25:00	Hi All My mind is aging quicker than my brain. I am having problems remembering them ,passwords, even tho' I have them written down. Which P/W for which App. I now have 2 comps. 15.6" Toshiba, main one in my room. A 14' Everis that I take to the lounge, I use this most these days for Kindle & Mahjong. Now the question..................The computers have different P/Ws, Thats ok. The problem is the number of PWs I am using all different. Given that I am in a Rest Home, do I really need them, Other than the entry ones. Where it is insisted to have one I could put "Admin" or something. This might seem minor thing to you, please bear with me, I need your opinions. Next. Is thre a way I can make pws show as letters before becoming a row of dots. A porgramme to retrieve pws app? Thanks. PJ	Poppa John (284)
1442808	2017-11-29 22:49:00	You should be able to set your passwords to be the same, or it is possible if you are not worried about security to set up windows to boot up without asking for your password. You push the start button, type Netplwiz, select it from the results and run it, then tick the box that says something like "allow users to log onto this computer without a password", enter your password twic when prompted, and you're done. No need to enter it again. Bear in mind you will still need a password to wake the PC up if it goes to sleep - that's a separate setting somewhere. As for storing all your passwords, for me personally I use a smartphone app called Pocket. It has it's own password you will still need to remember to get into it and saves all your passwords in an encrypted file. It also used to be able to sync via dropbox to other devices running the app - but this is not working anymore since drop boxes latest updates. You can export to an XML file and import on another device, but that file itself is not protected and should be deleted afterwards. At work I have to deal with multiple passwords and login methods for multiple devices. To keep my sanity I use the same password for as many as possible (which security experts will tell you not to do) and I have come up with a pattern I use on the keyboard so I only have to record the first letter (starting point) and I can re create the password using my pattern. This includes a capital and 2 numbers but they are always in the same part of the password. There have been several discussions I've read that explained that 3 word nonsense phrases are much easier to remember and more secure that these passwords that insist on special characters, a capital letter, a number, and other such things that force you to write it down to remember. Maybe you can apply that to your devices and use a trigger of some kind, for example use a theme like dogs for your passwords and modify it based on the device. A small dog that can sit on your lap for the laptop + something else you will remember like what you use the laptop for so we get for example KindlePug and for a desktop maybe InternetRotty. The trick is to have a reason for the password that you can remember but nobody else is likely to think of. Don't use those 2 passwords though, bad Idea to use anything posted publicly.	dugimodo (138)
1442809	2017-11-29 22:59:00	What you can do is stop having so many. It's mostly bollocks anyway....all this Capital letter, and number and character stuff. better to use a phrase. Something meaningful to you. Then take the above sentence and take the first letters of it. btuapsmty See? or if it allows a long one use a short phrase, all of it. I do recommend keeping banking passwords versus say, Facebook etc different. But same thing, the phrase thing works far better and is harder to hack and easier to remember. Friend with shocking memory did this, she tried but then she'd ring me and ask whats my password for X, and I got a bit tired of having to remember all hers too. Now she uses a certain sentence, the letters of it, she picked it, it's easy and for instance her wifi one consist of that backwards with a certain number added on it. She hadsn't forgotten in 2 years!!	pctek (84)
1442810	2017-11-30 00:26:00	Funny one I saw, an elderly lady could never remember her passwords for anything, so she made them all the same. The Password was "Incorrect". Had me thinking-- What the ????, then the penny dropped :rolleyes: When ever you put in a wrong password, you get a box pop up saying your password is "Incorrect". :)	wainuitech (129)
1442811	2017-11-30 00:28:00	I have a word doc with all my passwords in it , and there are far too many for me to remember You can pass protect a word document that contains all your passwords, that keeps it fairly safe . Use the same pass as the computers login pass. Or use a password manager : someone will be able to recommend one. Or write them all down on paper with invisible ink, lemon juice :-)	1101 (13337)
1442812	2017-11-30 00:32:00	Where I used to work our Windows passwords had to be changed every 6 weeks, and had to be too complex to ever remember: $#dgRH764@d~ sort of thing So almost everyone would write it on paper stuck to the monitor. So much for secure passwords . The one person who didnt write it down would ring IT every other week as he'd forgotten it	1101 (13337)
1442813	2017-11-30 00:49:00	pctek, That is no where near safe, a passphrase is better and easier to remember and would take longer than a few seconds to break than your random letters password which most likely exists in a rainbow hash table. I wouldn't suggest using an alphanumeric password, even at 64 characters it can be broken in 700 seconds. Once a rainbow hash table has been created, the lookup times are quick, and these files can be GBs in size, they take ages to create but once created they are out there for all to use. Whether this is being too paranoid or not, but people who are targetted (celebs, politicians, etc), they need better passwords.	Kame (312)
1442814	2017-11-30 02:32:00	I have a word doc with all my passwords in it , and there are far too many for me to remember You can pass protect a word document that contains all your passwords, that keeps it fairly safe . Use the same pass as the computers login pass. Or use a password manager : someone will be able to recommend one. Or write them all down on paper with invisible ink, lemon juice :-) I have for many years used a system similar to 1101. I have quite a number for different uses but put them into a p/w protected spread sheet with complete instructions for each. This way there is only one password to remember to enter the sheet and they are all available. Good luck	Woody (710)
1442815	2017-11-30 03:18:00	pctek, That is no where near safe, a passphrase is better and easier to remember and would take longer than a few seconds to break than your random letters password which most likely exists in a rainbow hash table. Go on then. Tell me my Pressf1 password.	pctek (84)
1442816	2017-11-30 03:56:00	There are sites that supposedly test the strength of a password, like this one https://howsecureismypassword.net/ If you have been a car or bike owner it is easy to devise a strong password that is easy to remember, it could be your first bike or car, or you favourite car, one like this: "1963FordAngliaEstate1000cc" The above site says it would take a computer 32 Octillion years to crack it :clap Of course they may be referring to a 286 with 1MB of RAM	Terry Porritt (14)
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