Re: Password is TOO long
- From: Gene E. Bloch <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:16:50 -0700
The fact is, I made my suggestion after you already told us that the solution from Jan Wagner worked, so it came under the heading of experimental science :-)
However, in the uncooperative spirit of not breaking anything here, I'm not going to mess with my password. If I change my mind, I'll probably make a new user and experiment there :-)
I agree w/ you and Jan that it is a bug (or stupid design, your choice!) to allow you to enter a password that doesn't work. Never mind my opinion about the tech support people who wanted you to reinstall - I want to keep it clean :-) There are restoration installations that don't clear your data, but they probably wanted you to lose everything.
You're obviously not senile (I'm not so young either, which makes me an expert).
BTW, when I first saw your name on this NG I thought you were Chinese, with a name pronounced something like Shiyo-wan. Eventually, something you said helped me figure it out (I guess you said you now live somewhere else, not Iowa). Of course, this doesn't prove you aren't Chinese...
Glad you're in good shape,
Gino
On 5/20/2006, xiowan posted this:
Hi Gene:
That was my first thought when the incident happened as well. I noticed right away that when I got through part of the password that the last three charactors didn't show up as little black dots and figured I was in trouble. Sure enough, the password didn't work. So, knowing I'm senile, I tried again a several times more without success the windows login and in safe mode, referring to a written copy each time and making sure the caplocks weren't on etc and the login failed each time. Normally when you type something into a small box, the previous entries slide left out of sight as you finish......this wasn't the case on the login page. When I tried Jan's (operating system saving) tip, the password worked first try. What a relief! Just for curiousity's sake.......change your password to a real long one and change your DPI setting to 120 temporarily and see if you don't experience the same result if you are using XP Media Center 2005 operating system. It really seems like a defect in the program to me.......they suggest using a "strong password" and using M.S. password check site, I made mine "strong"..........too strong! lol If the password set-up allows that many charactors, it really should work at log-in with any display setting I would think. Anyway, I'm sure sleeping better now thanks to Jan's on-the-spot tip! The computer manufacture said that re-installing the O.S. was the only alternative. One microsoft support webpage said when the computer is set up in a network that re-installation was the only alternative when the password fails as well. As a senior citizen learning to play with computers, I certainly wasn't looking forward to re-installing Media Center 2005 from the back-up disks and then trying to configure all the settings, drives etc for equipment I've added in. Thanks for your input though, I'm always looking for advice to improve my skills.
xiowan..........in tucson
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