Some apps no longer saving passwords...

[Guest Howard Woodard]

I tried this in the user accounts group but got no nibbles. Trying again in

this group...

 

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I recently had a problem with MSN Explorer that the MS techs thought might

be caused by a corrupted user profile. They had me create a new account and

then, using the procedure from the MS KB, copy everything over to the new

account. It turns out that the MSN problem didn't have anything to do with

the account profile but by this time the new account had been created,

everything moved over and, since I didn't have room for a complete duplicate

account, the original account deleted.

 

All of my apps are installed for everyone on the computer to use and after

the transition everything seemed to work ok on the new account. Except --

It seems like there is always an "except" or "however" -- that I have

discovered that some things, in particular, the Stamps.com application for

example, won't save things like login passwords (it saves the user id, just

not the password), return addresses, etc. that it was saving under the

original account.

 

I called the Stamps.com tech support folks who, after trying a few things

that did not work, suggested that I create a new user account and try

installing the app there. Since this is where things started going wrong in

the first place I'm reticent to do that.

 

Does anyone know why an app might no longer be able to save login fields?

Even MSN Explorer will occasionally ask me for my Windows Live password even

though I am currently logged in and have only minimized the app.

 

Thanks in advance for whatever help and suggestions you might offer.

 

Howard

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