Re: [ProgSoc] Win95 passwords

[Christian Kent <ckent@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au>]

On Sat, 16 May 1998, Tim Johnson wrote:

> At 09:50 pm 15/05/98 +1000, Vik wrote:
> >How can I get my dialup networking thingie in Evil '95 to save the
> >password so I don't have to type it in every time? 
> i believe you have to go into the Connections->Settings menu, and check the
> "Redial" before it will let you save the password.

It's more complicated that that.  About 5 different things can cause the
password to reset (or not be available to save at all).  One of them is
not having any network logins at Windows startup, which means Windows gets
paranoid about not having anyone logging in at startup and doesn't let you
save passwords to disk.  To find the culprit, it's a good idea to go
systematically through the list that Tech User in PC Magazine put
together. You'll find it on www.zdnet.com, and do a search for "dial-up,
password, ppp".  It's a big article  :)

CK.

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