Will you forget the password(s) quite often or won't???

India
February 7, 2009 5:51am CST
I am the one who lose the passwords regularly.The reason is that I use different passwords for different sites.Also I will not visit those sites often.Hence if I go the site after some time,I will forget my password,hence I have to request for a new password through mail and I have to wait for it too. I don't this habit but yet due to the carelessness I lose the passwords.Hence I have put a note pad to mark my username and passwords. Do you of the same kind? Happy myloting
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18 responses
@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
7 Feb 09
Hi mailtormesh. You should try using a password manager, so you can store all your passwords and usernames in one place. Do a searh for "AnyPassword" its free and is a great way to store all your passwords, you can even copy and paste passwords from it to the website or whatever you want to log onto. Hope that is of help.
@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
7 Feb 09
Here is the link for AnyPassword http://www.anypassword.com/
• India
7 Feb 09
Thanks
• India
7 Feb 09
Can you give me the link to download that software?
• Philippines
8 Feb 09
I am guilty of forgetting my passwords. Haha! Thank goodness for easy retrieval process. Now, I save my usernames and passwords on notepad and then open that file whenever I forget what my un/pw is. I recommend that technique to all of you out there who tend to forget your passwords. Have a nice day! :)
• India
8 Feb 09
THANKS FOR POSTING
• India
8 Feb 09
Ya i also will forget the passwords and even usernames so i am using a software which can remember the passwords and fill the coloum of username and password automatically. I also have recorded the websites name and username and password on a paper so that i will not forget them.
• India
8 Feb 09
Oh good what is the name of the software you using?
• United States
8 Feb 09
I have like 3-5 different passwords. I have like 3 usernames I guess. But I only use like 2 of them now since I am not good at remembering things. I sometimes have to write it down if I think I wont remember it. The sites that I go to much often, I can never forget the pass. If you had one password for every site that would be pretty bad if someone found out about it. So I change it time to time just to be on the safe side. You know...anything can happen.
• India
8 Feb 09
Changing often? I really can't do it.
@nb_0702 (59)
8 Feb 09
No i never forget my password, my passwords are not different for different sites, for some reason if i want to use a different password i simply modify my existing password a bit that's why i never forget it. You do the same i bate you will never going to forget it . bye :)
• India
8 Feb 09
Thanks for sharing Norita
• China
8 Feb 09
since i don't have very memory, i just have two different passwords, one is 6 digit and the other is 8 digit and several usernames. so even if i do forget the username and password combination, it won't take me very long to try all the combinations.
• India
8 Feb 09
Oh poor memory like me.You can try any software Chameleon..!
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
7 Feb 09
If you use Firefox, it has a password keeper and you can put your passwords in it. Also there is a password keeper called Scarabay. I use it to keep my passwords in it. Now if you are a Mac user, I do not know how to help you. But I make very confusing passwords when it comes to my banking sites and I have had to request them when I lost my old password keeper. I would not trust a notepad, more likely to shred it.
• India
8 Feb 09
I am using firefox, where can I find the password keeper?
@deserve40 (1656)
• India
7 Feb 09
I never forget my password if it is my routine password. However, some sites insist that the member has to have particular type of password only. Like one alphabet or one sign or some numerics and some alphabets like... that makes me change my routine passowrd because I have a password which is a mixture of so many things. But new one I do tend to forget very often. As long as username is concerned, I do not use too many usernames and so there is hardly any chance of forgetting the username.
• India
7 Feb 09
Nice.Thanks for reply
• China
7 Feb 09
First,to keep it safe,I actually use my accounts only on my personal computer,and also never let computer remembers those usernames and passwords automatically like the cookie function,in case my computer will be under attack of some kind of virus some day,then it would be a trouble. Second,my passwords are consisted of specific numbers and letters,such as my birthday,my telephone number,some of my favorite words or even a combination of birthday of both mine and my girlfriend's. Third,some time when i have to change my passwords,i get to have them written down temporarily on a paper to avoid confusing them. Forth,i try to register as few websites as i can just for conveience,so i usually can remember these information by myself. Fifth,my girlfriend also help me to keep some accounts information that is not seemed very important,then this password thing is not a problem to me,hehe
• India
8 Feb 09
Well I got a lot of new techniques.Thanks for sharing
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
7 Feb 09
yeah, i used to.. during my first few months in the net.. but now? i don't forget my passwords anymore because i've written some of them down on my little pink notebook.. i also have a palm(password protected) where i keep important infos such as passwords, bank account, etc)
• India
7 Feb 09
I think pink is your favorite color gracie!Thanks for reply
@TnWoman (1895)
• United States
7 Feb 09
hello mailtoramesh i usually use the same password on all of the different websites that i am a member of except for a few of them like paypal's website and websites like that. sometimes when you join a website your password usually has to be so many letters long and sometimes websites even require you to put some kind of a number or numbers behind your letters. so for the most part, it is very easy for me to remember all of the different passwords that i have for the many different websites that i am a member of. take care and have a beautiful afternoon.
• India
8 Feb 09
Thanks for responding
• Mexico
7 Feb 09
I used to lost all the time my passwords,but I did the New Year resolution of organizate all my passwords in one notebook.I keep my notebook in a hidden place only known by me and everytime I want a password I just go to check it on my notebook
• India
8 Feb 09
Quite different resolution
• India
7 Feb 09
no definitely i dont forget the password i have a master password saver so that it automatically applies to the site login so no problem for me in finding or forgeting password happy loting
• India
7 Feb 09
What is master password saver Prasanna?
• Malaysia
7 Feb 09
i always forget my password..it cause me a lot of trouble,sometimes i have to sign up again using another email.but now i write the password at my PDA n notepad.since then i never forget my password .
• India
7 Feb 09
Like me?! Thanks for posting
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
7 Feb 09
I've had websites that i've signed up for, maybe even didn't think I'd ever use, so I made a password I wouldn't remember, then I find out about it again, or think about it again and my interest change and I like it, or the websites changed or something, and then I have to request it again. Then again there's times I just forget the password because I hadn't been on the site since a password I had previously, etc...
• India
7 Feb 09
Most of us have this habit
@jickyeung (201)
• Hong Kong
7 Feb 09
Hi mailtoramesh. I always forget my usernames and passwords. Long long time ago, when I begin using the Internet, I decided a password to use for all of my accounts. However, I found this not working, because different websites have different requirements on username and password. For username, the name I entered may be used by others already. For password, some websites said my password was too short, some said too long, some require me to enter only numbers, some require me not to enter numbers. As a result, I have many, many usernames and passwords, which is impossible to remember (in fact, I never try to remember them). I think you also have this experience if you were joining websites for making online money, right? :)
• India
7 Feb 09
Ya this is the reason to choose a separate notepad to write my user names and passwords
@vishwaskg (514)
• India
7 Feb 09
Hmmm... happened to me a long time back ,so got rid of that habit by having specific passwords only for mails , and another set of passwords for other types of web accounts.This helped to a large extent. i dont write down,because it will surely be misused . On a whole i keep up with fewer passwords,than risking loosing it . Cheers!
• India
7 Feb 09
So you must have a larger memory right
• Philippines
8 Feb 09
Since you come to the different site mailtoramesh, you need to have one emial address. All the application and approval were to be send to your email. Dont erase it so that you can request for the password.