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re: Question about 'Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords'
Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 11:30 am
Posted by smokey
(215 messages posted)
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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re: Question about 'Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords'
Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 2:32 pm
Posted by Casey
(571 messages posted)
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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re: Question about 'Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords'
Friday, February 22, 2002 at 9:10 am
Posted by David Cook
(1 messages posted)
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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re: Question about 'Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords'
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 9:46 am
Posted by Pringle
(1 messages posted)
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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re: Question about 'Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords'
Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 11:10 am
Posted by Craig Wilson
(1 messages posted)
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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re: Question about 'Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords'
Friday, February 28, 2003 at 12:45 pm
Posted by Squire
(1 messages posted)
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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re: Question about 'Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords'
Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 11:21 am
Posted by rbryant
(1 messages posted)
When I dial up internet, my password has not been retained.
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re: Question about 'Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords'
Monday, February 28, 2005 at 4:39 am
Posted by Madz
(1 messages posted)
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:
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