Re: Password is TOO long
- From: xiowan <xiowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:14:01 -0700
Hi Gene:
Darn, I was looking forward to seeing a post from you saying you
couldn't get into your computer and cursing me! (That way I could say "are
you sure you typed it in right?" LOL
x-iowan.........in tucson
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
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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