Passwords

[Philagoofy]

I have so many passwords at work that I finally decided to make up a spreadsheet in excel listing all of the various passwords & what they are for. I password protected it.

I can't remember the password.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

if it is a joke, it is funny. If it is not a joke, there are free programs on the web that can crack MS Office passwords...

 

[Darsa]

If it's not a joke... it's still funny!!

 

[Disneylover79]

Make sure you didn't use 123456...LOL..JK... I saw a story on Yahoo about hackers and how the most popular password is 123456....I hope you remember your password soon....good luck

 

[rabx5]

I'm sorry, but that cracks me up.

Do you think you may have it written somewhere?

Did you try the word password for your password ?

 

[Philagoofy]

No, it's not a joke. But if you knew me, you'd understand. I have a mind like a, uh, what's that thing with little holes?

I tried "password" & a lot of the passwords I use for other things. I thought I wrote it down but that word isn't working. It's definitely not 12345, but maybe I should try that just in case....

Thanks for the all the advice.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Oh, I am so sorry!


(for laughing at you!)

 

[JohnsonsLoveDisney]

We have the same problem and various versions of the same password, (to help make it easier) since not all places accept all the same characters.

I would just start going through your list of known passwords and see if you used one of those.

Sorry it happened.

 

[Dan Murphy]

http://www.roboform.com/

An EXCELLENT solution.


ETA..........

http://www.retailmenot.com/view/roboform.com

 

[Darsa]

I'm sorry that I laughed, it just seemed so funny!

Where I work, the passwords are always either Password or 123456. I even have to give three other people the password for my computer that only I use; I hate that!

 

[Philagoofy]

I'm sorry that I laughed, it just seemed so funny!

Where I work, the passwords are always either Password or 123456. I even have to give three other people the password for my computer that only I use; I hate that!

Hey, don't be sorry, it is funny. Pathetic but funny. What's worse, I actually have two spreadsheets, one named "password" & one named "passwords". I made them a few days apart last August, so apparently I couldn't remember the first password, made a second spreadsheet up & can't remember that one either. I usually use the same couple of passwords if they are just for me.

I have most of my passwords written down in a little book but it's getting messy that way. It'd be so much easier in a spreadsheet where, once I'm in, I can use the "find" function. Yeah, once I'm in

Thanks Dan, I'll look into your suggestion.

 

[Geoff_M]

I have so many passwords at work that I finally decided to make up a spreadsheet in excel listing all of the various passwords & what they are for. I password protected it.

I can't remember the password.

Excel passwords (putting a password on the whole file) are extremely difficult to recover. There are utilities out there that purport to be able to retrieve Excel passwords, but they only work by doing things like trying every word in the English dictionary and trying random combinations. I ran into this last week when I had an Excel file randomly password protect itself. I worked with the MS-Office experts at our Corporate Help Desk and they said there was little they could do. Sorry.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

Been there, done that, own the T-shirt. What a pain for you.

The IT guy at work had some program that cracked the password for me so I was able to access it. He wasn't happy with me. This was years ago though. I don't know what program he used though and I no longer work there to ask him.

I hope Dan's solution works for you.

 

[Philagoofy]

Excel passwords (putting a password on the whole file) are extremely difficult to recover. There are utilities out there that purport to be able to retrieve Excel passwords, but they only work by doing things like trying every word in the English dictionary and trying random combinations. I ran into this last week when I had an Excel file randomly password protect itself. I worked with the MS-Office experts at our Corporate Help Desk and they said there was little they could do. Sorry.

Just curious about the random password, does someone see it first? Otherwise, how would anybody know & what would the purpose be if no one saw it?

Dan's suggestion looked more like helping set up a program to help with remembering passwords among other things, rather than trying to find this password.

Every so often I try to get in. Luckily, I still have all the passwords written down elsewhere so I'm not totally lost.

 

[Geoff_M]

Just curious about the random password, does someone see it first? Otherwise, how would anybody know & what would the purpose be if no one saw it?

Dan's suggestion looked more like helping set up a program to help with remembering passwords among other things, rather than trying to find this password.

Every so often I try to get in. Luckily, I still have all the passwords written down elsewhere so I'm not totally lost.

Maybe I didn't understand what you were wanting... I was talking about utilities that try to "crack" password protected Excel files. Instead of working by trying to decipher the encrypted password, these utilities try and find the password by trying something like 16 millions different passwords (both using real words, and trying random combinations). In my case, it wasn't able to find a match. I ended up recreating the spreadsheet I "lost".

 

[Frankiesmom]

That's funny! Where's the tag fairy?

 

[Dan Murphy]

.....Dan's suggestion looked more like helping set up a program to help with remembering passwords among other things, rather than trying to find this password.....

Yes, that is correct. It does it well too.

 

[SandrA9810]

I just have to remember when I created to username. Like really old websites and stuff I used to visit when I first got my computer are one password. When I moved out on my own, I changed it to something different. And now it's a slight variation of the last one.
I hate having a million passwords to remember. I also hate remembering a million usernames as I always try to keep it the same.


I hated Disney work site, it made you change it every 90 days... and it always took like 2 weeks to remember what the new password was.

 

[Narnian_Princess]

One thing that helped me was to name the document/spreadsheet something completely random and strange (not 'password' or something obvious) and then make the password the same as the document title. That way, if I forgot the password, all I had to do was look at the filename! Probably not too smart, but it worked.

 

[Laurabearz]

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