The System Tab provides access to settings that are related to
Password Safe's interaction with the system on which it is running.
Put icon in System Tray
If checked, Password Safe will minimize to
the the System Tray area. If unchecked, the program will minimize to
the task bar.
The icon in the system tray indicates whether the password
database is locked (
) or
unlocked (
). If
it is locked, you will be prompted for the master combination when you
try to unminimize it.
Remember last N
used entries in System Tray menu
If the
Put icon in System Tray option is enabled, you can right-click
on the system tray icon to get to the most recently used entries
directly, without going through the application's main screen. This
option allows you to configure how many recent entries you wish to
keep in the system tray icon's list.
Hide System Tray icon (Hot Key MUST be active)
If checked, this will cause Password Safe to hide his icon in the system tray. This functionaltity will only be enabled if the Hot Key to start or reopen Password Safe is avtive.
Start Password Safe at Login
If checked, this will cause Password Safe to start automatically in the
System tray when you log on. Note that you will be prompted for the
Safe combination the first time you double-click on the System Tray
icon,
not before.
Recent Passwordsafe Databases
These controls allow you to configure how many
recently opened databases are displayed in the File menu. Note that you need to exit and restart
Password Safe for changes in this control to take
effect.
Recent Databases on File Menu rather than as a sub-menu
This option determines how the recently opened databases are presented
in the File menu - directly on the menu, or as a sub-menu.
Open database read-only by default
Setting this option will cause
Password Safe to open databases in read-only mode by default. This may be useful in a multi-user environment, as by default
Password Safe
allows write access to the first person who opens the database, and
restricts others to read-only mode. With this option, you can determine
by site policy who will have write-access to a given database.
Allow multiple instances (requires all instances to be restarted)
Remove Password Safe data from Registry
Prior to version 3.05,
Password Safe
used the Registry to store configuration data, such as non-default
options settings, last database opened, etc. As of this release, this
information is split into database-specific and user/machine specific
settings, with the latter being stored in a separate configuration
file. Selecting this option and clicking on the
Apply button will cause the registry settings to be cleared. This is useful if you wish to remove traces of
Password Safe on your PC. Note, however, that this means that older versions of
Password Safe will revert to default value for some of the settings.
Notes:
- If previous versions of Password Safe have never been installed, or if the data has already been removed, then the checkbox and Apply button will not be displayed.
- In rare circumstances, where Password Safe is unable to create or write to the configuration file, the registry will be used.
Migrate PasswordSafe configuration to user directory
Prior to
version 3.22, PasswordSafe kept application preferences (such as some
of the user options, last files opened, window size and location, etc.)
in a file in the same directory as the PasswordSafe executable. This
has caused problems with recent versions of Windows when users were not
given write access to this directory. Therefore, as of version 3.22,
the configuration file (pwsafe.cfg) will be created in the standard
location for such files (in the user's 'Application Data' directory).
By
default, upgrades to existing installations will not change the
existing preference file ("if it ain't broke, don't fix it"). However,
if a user wishes to switch to the new setting manually, selecting this
checkbox and clicking on 'Apply' will do so.
In more detail: The
configuration file is designed to support multiple users from multiple
machines. The migration function will move the current user's settings
(associated with the current PC) from the configuration file to the new
location. If there are other user/machine specific configurations in
the file, they will be left untouched. If, on the other hand, there are
none left after migration, the empty file will be deleted.
If you
wish to share a common configuration file between users and/or across
different PCs, you can either keep the file in the executable
directory, or specify its location explicitly using the '-g
config-file' option, as described in
command line arguments.