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re: The password that will not go away
Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 8:42 am
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Posted by SCarter (1 messages posted)

I just tried this fix and it worked! Thanks! I'm still concerned that I don't have any idea why I had an "unkown account" set as a default, though.

On Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 2:07 am, Macca wrote:
>I've just got another pc with windows XP and had the same problem, that ther seemed
>to be a bogus password and that xp would not save mine, I have eventually found that
>for some reason there is an unknown account on my PC, I deleted this account and
>everything seems ok.
>I found this account using the following sequence:
>Control panel, select System, select advanced tab, select user profiles, select settings.
>if there is a spurious account listed, delete, then try and dial up and save your
>password
>hope this helps.........good luck
>
>

Written in response to:: re: The password that will not go away (Macca: Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 2:07 am)

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re: The password that will not go away (james hunting: Sunday, March 2, 2003 at 4:53 pm)

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The password that will not go away (Michelle Kountz: Thu, Aug 29, 2002, 4:56 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (Pierre R: Fri, Aug 30, 2002, 8:54 am)

re: The password that will not go away (WOLF21: Fri, Aug 30, 2002, 10:39 am)

re: The password that will not go away (Pierre R: Fri, Aug 30, 2002, 10:45 am)

re: The password that will not go away (jimpok: Thu, Oct 3, 2002, 7:14 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (kt: Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 2:20 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (Macca: Sat, Oct 26, 2002, 2:07 am)

re: The password that will not go away (SCarter: Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 8:42 am)

re: The password that will not go away (james hunting: Sun, Mar 2, 2003, 4:53 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (Steven Hillis: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 12:50 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (Tim: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 5:30 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (Mark: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 5:02 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (Steve: Tue, Feb 10, 2004, 6:18 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (John Lechner: Tue, Mar 2, 2004, 12:46 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (Barry Maurer: Tue, Mar 16, 2004, 6:41 am)

re: The password that will not go away (HERB HAMIC: Mon, Jun 7, 2004, 6:17 pm)

re: The password that will not go away (Rachele: Fri, Jun 11, 2004, 4:34 am)

re: The password that will not go away (Enna: Mon, Jun 28, 2004, 5:15 pm)

re: The password that will not go away - SOLVED (Enna: Wed, Jun 30, 2004, 8:53 pm)

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