F-Secure KEY Password Manager is an interesting tool (free) that will help us to manage all our passwords from the same environment; the ease with which this task can be carried out is incredible, since it does not require great knowledge in advanced computer science to use each of its functions.
F-Secure KEY Password Manager It is currently available for the great variety of equipment that exists in the market, which directly involves computers and mobile devices; In this sense, we could manage passwords on both a Mac computer, another Windows PC, or an Apple mobile phone as well as an Android one.
Acquiring F-Secure KEY Password Manager from its official store
To avoid problems and inconveniences, the reader interested in F-Secure KEY Password Manager, which goes to the official website of its developers, where you can admire different download options, from which we will have to choose the one that fits our team.
For a purely explanatory tint we will download the PC version for Windows, a file that has a weight of approximately 11 MB; In a general way, in the installation process that you will observe is the same that you will be able to admire with any other package, which suggests, a series of windows where the user will be indicated the destination where we could find the application between a few other features.
Once the installation process has finished we will have to run F-Secure KEY Password Manager from the Start Menu; The interface will show us 2 unique options, which are:
- Create a new account.
- Connect to an existing account.
If we are new to using this application then we should choose the first option, an action that will change the interface for a moment; there it is proposed that we place what is known as a «Secure Password«, Which should be easy to remember to avoid complicating our lives later.
The application will close and with it, the session, each time we click on the small "x" that is located towards the upper right side; If we open the tool, we will be asked to enter the Master Password that we previously programmed
The interface that we will find in F-Secure KEY Password Manager It is quite intuitive, which specifically proposes 4 fields to manage both user names and passwords:
- The first space that has a magnifying glass icon will help us find a specific password associated with a user name.
- The following field will help us to program a username and password in this tool.
- Next we have an area that will help us to link this application with different mobile devices, be they Android or an iPhone.
- The last field will help us to import user names and passwords from an external document, which must be in an XML format.
How do we manage passwords in F-Secure KEY Password Manager?
This is the most interesting part of all, being also a fairly easy process to carry out thanks to the fact that in the interface of F-Secure KEY Password Manager it is quite user friendly; To do this, we must choose the second field that we mentioned above, which we will identify by the little "+" sign; by clicking on this option we will find another window, where we will have to:
- Describe the type of password that we will register.
- We can define what type of service these credentials will belong to (email, bank account, social networks or others) by using an icon.
- URL. Here instead we will define the URL where the access credentials are generally placed.
- user Name. We will only write our username.
- Password. This is where we will write the password that is associated with the username (we can also generate a new password).
- Notes. In this space we can put a small description about the service to which the credentials belong.
With these simple steps that we have mentioned, a person can have all the access passwords registered in a secure tool; All this information will appear as if it were a list within the interface of F-Secure KEY Password Manager, being able to click on any of the list to display both the username and the password (encrypted).
Towards the upper left we can admire about 3 horizontal lines, which will help us to display a side bar. From there we will have the opportunity to import or export the credentials as well as, link to this tool, our mobile devices.
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