Password recovery is a matter of serious concern. It this article we discuss facilities for web account password recovery.
Have you ever faced the trouble of forgetting the password? Password recovery is probably the most attractive facility for one that has an enormously huge amount of passwords to remember.
Web services usually have means of password recovery or replacement. For example, when register an account you are frequently asked some special information. You’ll be asked it once again if you forget your password. Another way is to get the lost password to your mailbox, which you indicated when registration.
The same is about some Windows applications that require a user to have an account (e.g. instant messengers). ICQ or MSN password recovery is possible through the special password recovery services: first you need to specify the answers to your “secret questions” and the email where your new password should be sent. Or, if you don’t remember the answers, you can type your primary or alternate registration email and will be sent the information there.
But let’s take a deeper look at Windows password recovery. Many office applications can protect documents with passwords: MS Word, MS Excel and other. And in this case, if you forget your password – you’ll never access your files again. Therefore, we feel a temptation to create passwords easy to memorize. But actually, this option is applied to data that needs a special security level. That is why it’s not very wise to create a week password. Some sort of a vicious circle appears: easy passwords are not protective, strong ones most likely will be forgotten.
The perfect password recovery tool is a powerful password manager with the encryption feature. It will help you to organize effective system of dealing with your Internet accounts and Windows passwords. Usually, such programs store your passwords to an encrypted database and leave you with the only password to remember – the one needed to access the password storage. With such a helper, you can have as strong passwords as you want without being afraid to forget them. Besides secure storing your passwords, password managers offer auto filling web and Windows forms, which will make your work much more quick and effective. According to your preferences and needs you can select a program that will maintain nice and quick password recovery and efficient password management.
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