Re: No option to save passwords in IE under XP Home

I call Microsoft with my credit card in hand and ended up at a more advanced
support level. They failed to provide a valid answer. They said that XP Home
did not support saving passwords by design. They also said that by design,
passwords were not to be saved in XP Professional because "since we would be
sending the passwords over the internet, it was not safe to save them". I
laughed when they said that. Apparently, manually entering the password to be
sent over the internet is safer than saving them on the user's system and
then sending it over the internet. In conclusion, Microsoft has a flaw in
their system and does not intend to fix it.

Over and out.


"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> "SydCytronics" <SydCytronics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3FE1030D-1D53-4876-BF62-9E6989B9F7A2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi.
> >
> > When and if I get an answer, I will certainly post it. For now, I decided to
> > bite the bullet and called Microsoft support with my credit card ready and
> > waiting. So far, they are also stumped. I did learn one thing though. Under
> > XP Professional, if you call up the user profile in Control Panel/User
> > Accounts and click "Manage my network passwords" on the upper left side, you
> > get a facility to pre-store usernames and passords. The "Add" button exists
> > and you can actually define a server set of credentials but, the password is
> > not retained. In XP Home, however, there is no "Add" button and so this is a
> > further example of the problem.
>
>
> Are you connected when you do that?
> FWIW that shows a list of my Passport accounts. ;o
>
> BTW if this is the type of password you are having a problem with,
> e.g. not an AutoComplete problem, you would get better assistance
> in a newsgroup which specializes in security for your OS.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
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