I only have one screen name and I have been using it since before there was an internet... Actually my daughter gave me this screen name as a CB handle 32 yrs ago when she was only 4yrs old.

I have three different passwords which are a random mix of letters and numbers which have a very distinctive meaning to me, but would make no sense to most of the general public.

But then I also have three computers, and only one is connected online. This one, which is online is not connected to the others and this computer contains no personal or financial data that I would worry about loosing. If someone wants to hack this computer all they will find is some of my photos, all of which are backed up on an external drive, so I don't really worry much about passwords

I only have two passwords, the one I have for the Garden Web, which was set up by my late daughter-in-law and she gave me the one here. Then there is the other one I use for when ordering on-line, which isn't all that often.

I, also, have mine wrote down in the back of my address book. I try to use only a couple different ones..

Waaaaaaaaa, I just had to come up with a new one at work, to sign in there. I knew, I would have to change before long, but hoped to go back and forth with just two... but NOOO, they wanted a different one.

Yikes, this is getting more and more complicated. 5 different email addresses and passwords, credit card sites online, bank online, shopping online.....

But so far, I can remember, or I have them send me a new one to get in, and I set one up, "I think I can remember". LOL

I do have most of them written down.

Moni

I keep the travel ones in my travel company directory. Each tour company and cruise line requires them and they change every xx days....each company is different. And since I don't do trave business frequently I have to write them down.

The rest of them I keep in an address book.

I use the old fashioned roll-o-dex. Works perfect for me!

I have a desktop. I wrote all my passwords on a sheet of paper, put a clear plastic "document protector" over it and stuck it in the drawer of my computer desk. No one ever goes in the drawer. I am a very "low tech" person. Pen and paper is good enough for me.

I keep mine in a notebook.

I email the info to myself and keep everything that I am registered with in a Hotmail email folder labeled Registrations

In the subject line of the email, I note what the info pertains to...ie Ebay, Amazon, USPS, Photobucket, etc. That way, I always have access to the info, even if I'm on a different computer than my own.

I have a very small address book that I use. I don't have a lot of different usernames and passwords, but as I get older remembering which one to use where was difficult. No problem with the address book. If I travel and take my laptop the address book goes along in my purse and I have addresses for friends and family if I need to send a card.

Mine is in a little book too. They are all different and should be.

Zappos just announced that its computers were hacked and someone had customers' passwords. So anyone using the same password everywhere had to go to all accounts and change the passwords. So it's best not to use the same password everywhere.

I keep mine in my notes section in my phone

I also have an online address book that I have all my info like utilities and such numbers in. No user names or passwords.. I have it all printed off in case we loose electricity.. I've had to call on an outage several times.. It has been a life saver at times. I also took a copy to our other house. We've been gone and had a neighbor die and had to order flowers. Always have it close by. My hubby is always asking for info, he now knows where to look.. Sure makes life easier...

You can put your list in an e-mail and send it to yourself. That way if your computer dies and data is lost you can still access your e-mail from another computer and read your list.

I keep mine on a list in Word Perfect. I have the list printed off and keep it on my desk for quick reference.

With Firefox, under Tools/Options/Security you can check save passwords.

There is a site that has been recommended on Computer Help, where you can store them. I have bookmarked it but haven't tried it yet.

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Last Pass

I keep mine on a list in a folder. I have so many, that I could never remember them all. Now at work we have to change our password every three months. I had a hard time coming up with one I could remember all the time, so now I use the same password.. I just change the first letter when I'm prompted to change my password- I just go through the alphabet. Even if the next letter in the alphabet doesn't make it a real word that's what I do, because it's easy to remember that way.

When I break into your house and steal your computer I will look in the desk and take your passwords also. This is like leaving the key in the lock. Wise up people!

As someone said, if I have them in a (paper) notebook that I carry - what if I lose it?

You've made another copy that's hidden in a secret place at home ... and when you copy from one to t'other, you put a check-mark beside each, so that you know that you've copied it to the other location.

Now ... if this old fart could only remember where that "secret place" is!

One good place is with the $50.00 bill that you have hidden between the bottom and second bottom dinner plate in the cupboard, in case of emergency.

Not a good idea to use the same password in various places, especially regarding bank accounts, investments, credit card numbers, etc. But ... I used a certain password with one credit card, and didn't write it down (or, if I did, don't know where that paper went).

So - now that credit card is useless.

By the way - a survey asked how many credit cards I "own", I replied, "none" and, when asked to comment on the survey, said that I don't "own" a credit card - the issuer does ...

... and can repossess it whenever they choose. I carry XXX - that are on temporary loan to me.

With some of my issues, e.g. non-strategic email address, I use a password that's related, e.g. "junk mail for all" was "nospam".

I don't keep addresses of friends, whether via post office or electronic, in my computer, starting when mine was rather old, so easily hacked, I figured, and don't keep any financial or personal info there, either. If someone hacks my computer (when the one at home is online) ...

... they ain't gonna get much that they might find interesting.

Call me "a suspicious old man" if you like.

I call it "safety conscious" (and "thinking ahead": to forestall possible trouble).

ole joyful

Was gonna respond, but the others have covered all the answers! LOL

When you break into my computer room and find "the list" under the keyboard, you will find that my passwords are usually "kesbirthdate" which translates to the initials and birth date of a child or grand child....those that I can remember. I hope that works. DH however, carries his 'address book' with him everywhere and that info is readily available if he were to have an accident or heart attack. It worries me....not him.

My computer is password protected, and that password is only in my head.

I do like petaloid said - I made an excel file of all my passwords and codes and e-mailed it to myself. (I did print off a hard copy of the excel file and hid it.)

So no matter where I am, if I can get to my email I can get all my passwords.

Susan, you need to have your password in some form, such that if something should 'happen' to you, your family has access to your computer. I got this advice from my attorney when I was planning my estate distributions.

Of course I keep track. I would forget my name if I didn't have it wrote somewhere.
I use a 3x5 file box, it tells me everything.

(That's another reason I made the website, so I wouldn't forget things and know where to find things.)

I use this form go to this site and follow directions an adobe file will open then you can print out this listing form. keep a copy handy and hide one somewhere too.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.printablechecklists.com/checklist12.shtml

I have a contact listing for myself in Outlook. I add the website and the logon and password for each. Between on-line shopping, my workplace benefits and other personal websites I have a lot to keep track of!

I am extremely security conscious obviously, I use hard nonsense passwords and rarely ever use the same password for anything , for security sensitive sites I never use the same and always use hardened password. I have one notebook I keep everything written down in, I keep it in a secure locked location, I do NOT put them on my pc and NEVER in my email account if your email is hacked they have access to every single one of your accounts and passwords that is the biggest no no of them all because email accounts are so easily hacked these days. For those doing that I urge you to reconsider!!!

If someone manages to break into my house past me and my husband and dogs and our weapons and manage to steal my computers and also find the locked location of my password book and break into that and find that particular notebook then they can have it because I will be cold and dead by then. And I would imagine they will be shedding a little blood too.

The only other location is in a lock drawer in a completely separate location, not in my home, in case of a fire or catastrophe here.

I never allow the browser to remember passwords and never ever keep any type of password or registration info in my email since email is so insecure.

Good idea, Kayjones. I'll tell DH my password to the computer.

raven, your advice makes sense. Since (LOL) I don't have husband, dogs, or weapons, I need to take extra precautions here. As you say, people definitely should not be storing passwords on the computer. And like a fool I have mine written down and sitting right near the computer. I'm going to change my ways about this.

i PUT MINE ON 3X5 CARDS AND FILE THEM ALPHABETICALLY BY THE NAME OF THE SITE I VISIT.i HAVE SEVERAL different ones and make them all long,and use both letters and numbers.Sorry about the caps,i didn't know the lock was on and i didn't feel like erasing it and starting over.:)
Kathi

Mine are all written haphazardly into a notebook on the computer desk. Ten years worth in the order they came along. Really need to organize them and will check out these many good ways.