"Don't bother with Gator; give RoboForm a try instead." PC World
Why RoboForm is best
Gator replacement?
- RoboForm does not
show ads.
- RoboForm does not monitor your browsing.
- You can see your actual passwords in RoboForm, not just "*****".
- RoboForm can log you into the site automatically.
- You can control RoboForm from a toolbar in Internet Explorer.
- RoboForm can save any form, not just login form.
- RoboForm fills forms better.
- You can fill only a part of the form in RoboForm using Selective
Form Filling.
- RoboForm does not slow down your computer.
- RoboForm has Password Generator.
- RoboForm fills not just US forms in English, it fills forms in
Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish. It also
fills English forms for UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand and
French forms for French Canada.
- RoboForm works in Netscape 7 and Mozilla.
- In RoboForm you can customize User Interface.
- Convert Gator User Data to RoboForm
- Convert When Installing RoboForm.
- When you install RoboForm for the first time and you have Gator
installed then RoboForm will automatically offer to convert Gator
User Data to RoboForm. If it does not, then at the "Where RoboForm
Stores Your Data" dialog that appears after install select
"Convert my Gator personal profile to RoboForm" and follow
instructions.
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Convert in Already Installed RoboForm.
Select "RoboForm. Options", go to "User Data" tab, click "Import from
Gator" button and follow instructions.
Gator Identities vs RoboForm Users.
In Gator an Identity has a number of logins associated with it, so
effectively one Identity represents a Gator user. In RoboForm one user
can have several Identities, so Identities constitute an Address Book
of a RoboForm User. RoboForm Passcards are not grouped under a
RoboForm Identity, instead both Identities and Passcards are grouped
under a RoboForm User.
This is how to convert multiple Gator Identities to RoboForm Users
correctly:
* Create a RoboForm User by selecting "RoboForm. Users. New". The new
user becomes current.
* Convert Gator identity into the current RoboForm User.
* Repeat the above steps for all Gator identities you want to convert.
* You can switch between RoboForm Users by selecting "RoboForm. Users.
<User Name>".
Identity Country.
If you live in a country other than the United States, you should
select your country in the New Identity dialog when converting.
RoboForm can correctly fill country-specific fields such as phone
numbers, provinces, birth dates, so it needs to know what country you
are at.
Password Protection.
When you convert Gator identity to RoboForm and your RoboForm User has
no Master Password, Converter will offer you to create Master Password
and it will ask you whether you want to password-protect all converted
Passcards and Identity. This is time to decide whether you need
password protection for logins converted from Gator. When Passcard
(Identity) is password-protected, RoboForm will ask for Master
Password if you try to open Passcard or fill forms from it.
Manual Conversion.
If the automated steps above do not work for you then use this manual
procedure:
* If you have a Gator password, remove it first: in Gator settings
click "Remove" in the Gator Password section. When Gator asks for a
password, type it in and click OK.
* Export your Gator data to a file with a GAT extension: in Gator
settings click Export in User Information section. When "Save As"
windows appears, type in the name of your file. Save this file into a
folder where you can easily find it, for instance, into "My Documents"
folder.
* Select "RoboForm. Options", go to "User Data" tab, click "Import
from Gator" button. In there click "Browse" button and select folder
to which you exported *.GAT file.
* Your exported file name will appear. Select it and click Convert.
Uninstall Gator
If the conversion is complete and you do not need Gator, you can
uninstall it:
* Open "Control Panel" and click "Add / Remove Programs".
* Select "Gator eWallet" and click the Add/Remove or Yes/No button.
Wait until the goodbye web page appears.
* Select "Offer Companion" and click the Add/Remove or Yes/No button.
Let the uninstaller run.
* Select "Precision Time" and uninstall it too. This is a Gator
application that shows ads.
* Select "Date Manager" and uninstall it too. This is a Gator
application that shows ads.
* There may be more Gator applications to uninstall.
To be absolutely sure that you got rid of Gator use Adaware or other
spyware removal program.
Converting to Use Login Command
Gator does not store the URL of the login page in any of its "passcards",
so the GoTo, Go&Fill and Login commands for passcards converted from
Gator will bring you to the front page of the web site, not to the
login page. You will need to re-save these Passcards as RoboForm
Passcards in order to make GoFill/Login work correctly:
* Go to the login page of a web site for which you have Gator passcard.
* Display the Passcard for this site in Passcard Editor.
* Copy URL of the login page from the IE Address Bar to URL field of
the Passcard.
* Repeat the above steps for all Passcards converted from Gator.
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