I have a question about Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords:

The password is entered, "save password" is checked and next time there is a different number of asterisks in the line and the password is not correct.

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the password should be correct....XP put the extra ******* in for security...to confuse the enemy..lol


On Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 10:33 am, Larry wrote:
>I have a question about Dial-Up
>Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords:

The password is entered, "save password"
>is checked and next time there is a different number of asterisks in the line and
>the password is not correct.
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Hi Larry , follow me on this , it may not make sense but it will work fine. First write down all the settings of your connection in network connections so you can re-create the connection later, then delete the connection. If you use OE for e-mail , go in there and take out your username and password. Now go into the control panel under "users "and create a second user for your machine in XP, (it can be limited or admin). Now go and re-create your internet connection , If you are asked if you want to share this connection with other users , check yes,and put your user and pass back in OE. It should now retain the correct password , but it will still add the "masking" characters making the password appear longer , but it will retain the correct password. Lotsa frustration in this one for me:-) .Good Luck , Case

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On Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 10:33 am, Larry wrote:
>I have a question about Dial-Up
>Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords:

The password is entered, "save password"
>is checked and next time there is a different number of asterisks in the line and
>the password is not correct.
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> I just wanted to say a word of thanks to Smokey for his reply on this. (He said that the extra asterisks/dots were simply added to your password by XP to confuse the enemy. We were just to ignore them. Well, it worked for me! Thanks again, Smokey!

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Damn...all that is just great isn't it? I mean, I've now spent about ½ an hour searching for info on those extra asterisks...so let's sum it up - since I've accumulated a lot of excess knowledge through my vivid search routines: Microsoft gets a password save bug way back in W95/W98 They publizise a work-around (pretty technical but works) The SAME problem appears in ME and W2K - (and eventually a different work-arounds appear) Now, in XP they've apparantly said "What the Hell, let's put it in there INTENTIONALLY - or actually, LET'S NOT BUT PRETEND WE DID, so we can fool the enemy..!" Meanwhile all the users that actually discovered this well-known bug again and tried to find new ways to eliminate it have wasted their time completely and are feeling pretty insulted... I sorta rest my case here...are those guys complete morons??


On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 9:10 am, David Cook wrote:
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Got a similar problem with XP Dial Up Passwords, Every time i reboot the PC, the username & password fields are blank, even though the save password box is checked Anyone got any ideas?


On Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 10:33 am, Larry wrote:
>I have a question about Dial-Up
>Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords:

The password is entered, "save password"
>is checked and next time there is a different number of asterisks in the line and
>the password is not correct.
>
>

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I have exactly the SAME damn problem .... reboot the machine and your saved username and passwords are GONE !!!! Damn irritation, especially since the info for the AT&T dial-up account are complicated.


On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 11:10 am, Craig Wilson wrote:
>Got a similar problem with XP Dial Up Passwords, Every time i reboot the PC, the
>username & password fields are blank, even though the save password box is checked
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>Anyone got any ideas?
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When I dial up internet, my password has not been retained.
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Hey, for xp users , when the username and password is blank after a reboot... chk this out... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=818895


On Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 11:21 am, rbryant wrote:
>When I dial up internet, my password has not been retained.
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