Now the user is free to add Security Questions, Security Images or Related links. By pressing the 'Esc' button twice on the keyboard the user can cancel
the input of the new entry all together.
Let's pretend you are adding a new entry and you have just typed the new name -- "My Beans Factory" and pressed
Enter .
The Add URL popup Form
The buttons on the popup form are interactive...
After entering the new entry name or if you click in the URL field when it is blank the Add New Entry process displays this popup on top of the
Add New Entry form.
The Add URL popup gives you the opportunity to add a URL to the new Entry. You can either type one in or copy and paste
the URL from their browser. When the URL (in the case beans.r.us.com) is in place press 'Enter' to move to the next field the
User ID field.
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The Browse Button
If you want to save a local program as an account with password. Use the browse button to bring up a file selection dialogue
window. Browse to the executable for your program (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Quicken\qw.exe); select the executable file. The example will input
the execution path for Quicken. Then save your quicken password in the password filed. This allows you to click on the
URL field and start quicken and then use Control + v to paste in the quicken password when quicken starts up.
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The OK Button
The OK button becomes enabled when there is data in the input field. You can click 'OK' instead of pressing the 'Enter' key.
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The OK Button
The OK button becomes enable when there is data in the input field. You can click 'OK' instead of pressing the 'Enter' key.
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The Add User ID popup Form
The buttons on the popup form are interactive...
After entering or canceling out of the URL field or if you click in the User ID field when it is blank, the Add New Entry process switches to
this popup on top of the Add New Entry form.
The Add User ID popup gives you the opportunity to add a User ID to the new Entry. You can either type one in or click
'Cancel. When the User ID is in place (in this case 'jitterbug') press 'Enter' to move to the next field, the
Password field.
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The Add Password popup Form
The buttons on the popup form are interactive...
After entering or canceling out of the User ID field or if you click in the password field when it is blank,
the Add New Entry process switches to this popup on top of the Add New Entry form.
The Add password popup gives you the opportunity to add a password to the new Entry. You can either type one in or click
the Auto Generate button or click the 'Cancel' button.
When the password is in place (remember the password is not visible unless the mouse pointer is within the bounds of the password entry box)
press 'Enter' or click 'OK' to move to the next field, the
email address field.
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The OK Button
The OK button becomes enable when there is data in the input field. You can click 'OK' instead of pressing the 'Enter' key.
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The 'Auto Generate' Button
The 'Auto Generate' button will
generate a password for you. If you are replacing a password the length of the new password will equal the length of the current password. Otherwise,
the length of the new password can be set by typing a number between 6 and 26 in the input box next to the 'Auto Generate'
button. This password length input box will reflect the length of the current password or, if there is no password yet,
the length set under the options / password tab on the
Maintenance window.
The Auto Password Generation process can produce some very difficult to crack passwords, that are also very hard to remember too. However since you
are now using Account Tracker you don't need to remember them. Here are some sites where you can test the strength of the passwords generated:
How Secure is my Password
Password Strength checker
Password Checker
You can just copy and past a generated password to either of these sites. Remember that the longer a password is the better and the more
variation in the characters the better.
See Auto Generated Password Options
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Active Check Box
This field can not be updated by the user directly. When a password is entered for an entry it is marked as Active.
When the user edits or changes the password the old password is marked as in-active while the new one is marked active.
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Maintenace Page Password Tab
The Auto Generated Password Options Area allows the user to set application defaults
for the password automatically generated for each account.
During the Add New Entry
process, on the add password window there is a button labeled
"Auto generate".
The options in this area effect the characteristics of the generated password.
- Default length is the length of the generated password for a new entry. If you are changing an entry that already has a password
then the length of the previous password is used, Also you can override this value at the time of generation by typing in a different length
on the " enter password window" .
- If the check box in front of "Capital Alpha" is checked, you can select from 1 to the default password length* the minimum number
of capital alphas that the password will contain.
- The same is true for "Numeric digit". If checked, then each auto generated password will contain at least the number of digits you have entered here.
- And this continues for "Special Symbol" . If checked you can select the number of the following special character (at a minimum) that is contained in the password.
~,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,),+ (NOTE. Some security systems cannot handle all these special symbols. If you run across
one that says you have used an invalid character just replace that character with another of your choice.)
- A check in the "1st Character Alpha" check box will cause the first character of the generated passwords to be an alpha (either capital or
lower case). That means with this option selected no password generated will start with a number or special character,
- Finally you can choose whether other characters are repeated in generating the password, by checking or unchecking "Allow repeat characters". This does not mean
there will be no repeat characters, if checked. It means the characters not covered by the preceding requirements will not have a repeat in them.
- * There are some things to keep in mind: A good password has multiple different types of characters, so setting 5 for the number of capitals
in an password that is only 8 characters long will generate a weak password; the longer the password is the stronger it gets, password of 20+ characters
will be nearly impossible to crack; you cannot ask for a larger number of minimum character counts than the Default password length,
you cannot ask for 3 Caps, 3 nums and 3 special chars for a password that has a default length of 8.
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The Add Email popup Form
The buttons on the popup form are interactive...
After entering or canceling out of the Password field or if you click in the Email field when it is blank,
the Add New Entry process switches to this popup on top of the Add New Entry form.
The Add Email popup gives you the opportunity to add a email address to the new Entry. You can either type it in or click
the 'Cancel' button.
When the email address is in place press 'Enter' or click 'OK' to move to the next field, the
Notes field.
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The OK Button
The OK button becomes enable when there is data in the input field. You can click 'OK' instead of pressing the 'Enter' key.
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