Most websites that allows user registration uses password to protect an account from unauthorized logins. Strong password is crucial in order to protect your sensitive logins such as e-mails, bank accounts, forum passwords, etc. Normally, we choose password by using something that easy to remember such as word from dictionary. Using this method can cause the password to be easily guessed by someone that wished to access your account. Generating a random password can increase password strength and avoid the password from being easily cracked.

PWGen is an useful utility that allows you to generate strong random password which you can use in your login info.

1. After you have downloaded, installed/extracted PWGen, run the application.

2. To generate random password, tick 'Include Characters' (1). Choose the length of your password (2), the longer is your password, the strength will be better.

3. Choose the character sets to be used for your password (3). Normally, we can use <09> to include ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789 to be used in the password that we will generate. You can use <09> as the character set to include only lower case letters and numbers.

4. Press accept (4). Randomly, move your mouse cursor in PWGen window until the random pool (5) is full. Press 'Generate' (6) to generate your password (7).

Trying to remember passwords generated by PWGen should be very hard for a normal person. You can try this method to safely store your password.

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