When I started using the Internet a bit more actively, back in 2000, I had only an email account, so it wasn’t very hard to remember the password. Well, now I have lots of accounts, starting with the news page, my online banking account, my game accounts and all kinds of accounts for all kinds of web sites I am interested in: news, food, children, fashion, travel and so on. Now you must have an account, hence a user name and password for each of them if you want to be part of that community and be active there. To tell you the truth I ended up by choosing the same user and password for all of them because I forgot my passwords so many times that it was really annoying. Not to mention the fact that some accounts got blocked after I have tried different passwords three times in a row. But this is only a temporary solution and not the happiest one. I can settle with it only for the unimportant accounts, but I must choose a pretty difficult password for the accounts that are really important to me and must not be guessed by some strangers because they can make a lot of bad things.
Well, if this happens to you , too, and you run out of ideas you might consider using PC Tools Password Utilities to save you from disaster. This tool is actually a very smart password utility, as the name says it, which can be used to generate passwords for you, check them to see if they are hard to guess or really easy to be hacked and also have a very important feature that enables it to remind you the password from a certain account or document. This is not a single application, but a suite of three software applications that are used for a better management of all your passwords. Even if you haven’t thought about it so far it is very important to have good passwords because otherwise they can be guessed by bad people who can harm you in different ways. So it is better to have such a software application to help us rather than having to fight to remember the right password every time.
First there’s the Password Generator that can generate passwords for you depending what you need: you have the possibility to choose the number of characters, the type, if you want special characters and so on. Just choose the variables and it will generate the right password. The next step is to use the Password checker. If you need a pretty strong password for something you can check it and the application will tell you if it’s strong enough or not and will also suggest you what to do to have a better password. Finally the Password revealer will help you in case you forget your passwords. It works with Internet Explorer and it’s really easy to use. Besides, it’s a very safe method to keep track of all your passwords.
You can download PC Tools Password Utilities here as freeware and use it . It’s very easy to use and it’s small, too, 1070 KB.
