Handy Password Manager Review
Modern computing is all about convenience: making your life a bit easier, either through innovation or through reinvention of the wheel. This can be seen from a variety of different perspectives, such as a desktop manager or a password manager. In the case of the latter, it comes down to integration and seamlessness.
What do you get when you take an already established medium, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, and improve upon its fundamentals? If your answer's FireFox, though some may argue that you're correct, we're going to point you toward something a little less dramatic. If you managed to improve on Internet Explorer, what you have is a multi-million user target audience. Features
Handy Password Manager is a password manager that integrates into Internet Explorer. This means that there are less changes made on-screen, and that any changes that are made are done so stylishly and seamlessly. The program simply appears as another status bar in the Internet Explorer shell.
The program can also save passwords, as well as other data (such as web addresses) for retrieval at a later date. You can also auto-fill forms, store your password databases within e-mail accounts, auto-login, generate passwords, and it incorporates 128 bit encryption.
Handy Password Manager is also available for FireFox users, and you can actually use your settings on one computer and import them to another via the database e-mail files. This is great if you are running HPM on more than one machine.
Using Handy Password Manager The program integrates completely into the browser, and I like the fact that I don't have to dick around with it. It gives me the option to auto-fill any of the same or similar forms as the ones that I've encountered before, and it remembers everything without any problems.
The random password generator is a real treat, and it works flawlessly. You set the parameters of the password, such as lowercase only, and then click on the button. Within a few seconds the program has a completely random and unguessable password. No one will ever guess your new e-mail account's password if this program generated it.
The program automatically censors any passwords that you may want to run through it, though the option of not censoring them is there as well.
Conclusion
There isn't much to be said against Handy Password Manager, as it's exactly as the name implies: handy. It's convenient, and it's quite responsive when you need it to be. We wouldn't have any problems recommending this program to anyone.
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