Re: DUN icon missing

Go in Control Panel> Network and Dial-up Connections, right click on the connectoid and select "Properties". On the "Networking" tab is "Client for Microsoft Networks" shown as installed and is it selected? If it's not there install it. AFAIK there are no .pwl or .pwls files on Windows 2000, these are Windows 9x files and the security between W9x and NT is like day and night.

John

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Win2K does not normally use .pwl files. I would not expect a system
that was installed clean, as opposed to an upgrade, to have them. Passwords are stored in encrypted form, but they're not difficult to
view. Get Protected Storage PassView from
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/pspv.html



Thanks, Gary. Passview showed only one password file, in Outlook
Express. I don't use it, and don't find a password file in it's folder.

I don't think these is a password file as such. It's probably in one of
the registry components. This thread has gone on long enough that I've forgotten what the original objective was. Could you remind me?


Thanks, Gary.
I want to create a W2K password file so my existing DUN connectoid will recognize it. My create DUN screen is different and I can't create it in W2K, so my W98 connectoid works fine, but the password is wrong and I need to create a new password file in W2K.

I know from your previous post the format is *.pwls, I assume the name is my username, content is my password in plain text, but where do I put the file? I tried in the Winit folder, it didn't work there.

I already have "show all files", but if it's something special in hidden format, please describe. W2K in this area is very different from W98SE.

This may be a separate issue- the tech who installed my W2K set up a password, that is IMO what I keep seeing when I run DUN, want to change as above. How do I change the basic W2K OS password on bootup?

TIA
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