Believe it or not we all spend a significant amount of time resetting forgotten passwords. On an average an IT professional visits over twenty web sites( both on intra-net and inter-net)on a daily basis. Similar to the intra-net sites, which probably have single sign on implemented many of the external sites are password protected too.

ITInnercircle.com spoke to over 17 IT professionals on how they keep up with this password resetting problem. A very few said they have identical user names and passwords across all the sites including the social media sites such as Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, etc. For those who said they have distinct user names and passwords invariably reset their password on each site on an average of twenty times a year.

Most of them expressed they have heard about applications in the market place that could do this, but never tried using any.

While some of them did mention they keep all the their passwords in excel spreadsheets, some said they write them somewhere on paper and usually lose it on a frequent basis. Others tried to simplify this problem by having one user name for all the sites they access with having a small password with some degree of variance across all the sites.

Certainly I would not recommend that you have one password for all your sites. Like wise having your last name as your user name to publicly accessible sites such as yahoo, hotmail and ebay can be dangerous. Given that you have many distinct user names and passwords, remembering them is a nightmare too. Until most recently I was resetting 7 passwords a week on an average. Some of the accounts I do not even remember the user name as it was auto generated when I signed up for the service.

Most recently I discovered and tested a wonderful tool that has practically eliminated this problem for me. Its called Roboform. It keeps all passwords encrypted. When you visit a website on the internet, it can automatically fill the username and password for it automatically.

You may be thinking what happens if someone hacks into your computer or the application itself?. Roboform encrypts the password it stores. In fact you cannot access the passwords without putting in the master password for the application. If required It can also generate complex passwords for you.

You can either install Roboform on your desktop, laptop or can even install it on thumb drive. I have purchased and tried all versions. To explore all the features this software I encourage you to test it by Downloading and installing it for free.

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