Tips & Tricks

This page contains various usage tips and tricks.


Context-Sensitive Password List

Depending on which data you double-click in the password list (main window), different actions of the entry are performed.
Global Hot-Key To Restore KeePass Window

At startup, KeePass tries to register the global hot-key Ctrl-Alt-K to itself. If no other program has reserved this hot-key already, it'll restore the KeePass window when you press the combination.

If you have multiple instances of KeePass running, the instance that was started at first will be restored.


More KeePass Application Icons

If you want more application icons (for example because you want to give all .kdb files an icon like the KeePass main icon, but don't like the blue one), then download the latest source code distribution from the KeePass website (the file usually looks something like KeePass-X.XX-Src.zip).

Unpack it and you'll find several different icons in the "Ext/Icons" directory.

These icons are not included in the binary distribution because this would make the application file too big (adding 400kb just because of icons?).


Drag&Drop Fields

You can drag&drop all fields of KeePass entries into other windows. Here's a screenshot illustrating this: