Re: IE/OE fix may not

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I have tried everything and am at a loss. I even contacted PayPal again and
they assured me that there are no features on the PayPal
web site that would prevent the auto-entry of my password by my
Window's password manager.

So, again, the problem is that at some point I said no, to remembering the
password for this site or no to saving a change to the password for this
site. Ever since it will not enter the password again. Anything I can do?

"Bob Brannon" <bbran@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eH21S6UNFHA.3336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>Well, there is one last possible point of ambiguity there.
E.g. in order to get the desired result, by "delete the userid"
you would have to mean: press CursorDown to see the list
of possible userids to be used in that form's field,
then CursorDown to select the one you want to delete,
then press Delete, (that's when you should have seen the prompt),
then repeat the first two steps just to confirm that the userid has
been deleted from that field's list. Then when you attempt
to reuse it (and sign on again) you would get another opportunity
to save the password or not (assuming AutoComplete for Passwords
>is enabled.)

Well I checked again and there are no other entries for the userid and
deleting mine produces no prompts. However, the userid is there again the
next time I try to login. So, there must be somethign with the website or
the cookie they send me that puts that ID in there and does not auto enter
the password.

>Is there anything else you use that password for?

No.


>BTW there are quite a few cases in which IE commits registry
updates only when it is closed. I doubt if this is one of them
but it wouldn't hurt to close all IE windows (and wait for iexplore.exe
to be removed as an active process in Task Manager) in order
to doublecheck for such final changes. In relation to this notice that
you will have to Refresh (F5) PSPV after any updates need
>to be checked.

Done, no difference.

>Did you get yourself a copy of RegMon (from SysInternals)?

Yes.

>If the field is AutoComplete RegMon would show you the data
being picked out of a Protected Storage System Provider subkey
(one which you otherwise will be unable to detect.) I think it may
even show you the field name that it is associated with.
(If you know the field names I think you can make another page
which uses the same names and then modify them. I don't know
how the two field names become linked as a userid/password
pair however. I suspect that that would have to be a third value
being saved in there somehow, possibly only stored when the
>form is used to submit logon info with.)

Nothing being picked up.


>Hmm... I just had another look at PSPV's functionality.
Apparently, you can use it to delete or change saved
values. If so, you wouldn't have to bother with any of this
blackbox stuff that I have been referring to. In fact, I guess
it wouldn't matter then even if the password is truly
an AutoComplete item. (I don't know and all my previous
comments were based on empirical knowledge gained
from blackbox testing the AutoComplete UI with respect
>to password use.)

I deleted using PSPV too, no difference.

>PSPV shows the "resource name" with each entry.
>Is that the URL of the problem page?

Yes.

>If so, and if the method of deleting the userid/password
pair via the form isn't available to you I suppose that
I would try using PSPV's Delete or Export/Import
>instead.

Did that, no difference.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm back to trying to get somewhere with
PayPal, otherwise guess I'll just have to enter my password each time.

--

Regards,
Bob Brannon




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