The old lady has only a thumb version she prefers and as soon as you plug in, it mounts and hooks, so its pretty cool and leaves no trace, so she likes that. I did the same thing with RF back in the days, but now know exactly what it can do, so I have only a primary copy on my desktop and a thumb version which syncs locally so I can take it on the road with me. Yeah I installed it on a thumb drive so I can test it on various systems with various setups to see how it fares. Will put on flash drive to avoid any conflicts with the native install. But as you are taking the time to check out my recommendation, yes, I should check the newest version to see the differences. Pdf readers: Foxit v2 4MB, Adobe 400 MB - now, *that's* bloat. ![]() It would take a while to look into the finely-grained option changes, but it doesn't look like they foobarred anything, and I can live with going from 2 MB to 5 MB. Upon launch, it prompted for master p/w - same pw as the native install - and Bam! - popped right up. The really cool part, as always: I copied my current pw db to the new flash drive folder, and the new install immediately recognized it. No major changes to the operation: Here I am, logged in at NS Forum via PWS 3.28 on Flash drive. Decryption is done only on-the-fly in RAM, and *never* stored in the clear on disk, as always. ![]() Nothing that in any way would give anyone access to your creds, without the master pw. The only MRU stored is the filename of the last pw db that was opened, which isn't any secret, and of no use to an attacker who uses the machine after you do. Only typical user prefs are stored there, like window size/location, and standard stuff like file paths. I just checked the Registry for the (existing) native install. I suppose I could try a HD install in a different ProgFiles folder, and check size. That would account for larger installer size here. Maybe you had to choose: D/l the portable, or d/l the native. I don't remember if there was a differential choice in v3.15's installer. So, as mentioned, you can use it safely as a guest on another host machine. It offers both native install and disk-on-key install, the latter not using the Windows registry. GUI was mostly the same "enhanced" colors, like I really care about that. exe itself went up from 1.5 MB to 3.7 MB. and by opting out of all but English, installed size shrinks.Īctual installed size = ~ 7 MB, and of that, the. One reason is that this installer includes multiple languages - European, two Chinese, etc. The program is smaller than the installer. If you can't get the installer for it, I can e-mail you a copy - I always save such things. If you don't like it, they have a "History" link, and perhaps you might try the simple, lightweight 3.15. Perhaps they have decided to match RoboForm's additional capabilities, which is sad - why can't there be a range of products of differing features and complexity?Īnyway, if you try the latest version, of course you know I value your comments on it. IDK how large the fully-installed version is, but it looks like they, too, may have gone the bloatware route. I haven't updated it since the Dec 2008 version 3.15, whose installer was 1.7 MB, and the entire program folder, expanded, was barely more than 2 MB.įor the latest version, *the installer alone* is 10.7 MB. I know what you mean, my friend, and I just got a very unpleasant surprise when I checked on the latest version of Password Safe. ![]() I think RF might be going the way of Icarus I will actually admit that I find RF has gotten a bit more bloated than I would have liked over the years and although some refinements were welcome, not all of the stuff they have added was to my liking. I have been using RF since the time it was first introduced and it looked much like your program, simple interface, very "amateurish" GUI if you will, but none the less it was clever and powerful, so I don't judge anything by its look, just function.
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