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Hello, I have a problem when typing passwords on the Welcome screen. My
Windows XP Media Center edition was bougth in the US and had English as
the default language. I created and use an administrator account and a
limited account. For both I added Catalan and Korean language input
services, and set Catalan as the default language.
Well, Microsoft always instructs us to use complex user account
passwords. For your knowledge, on the Catalan keyboard symbols like @,
-, (, *, or # are placed under totally different keys from English;
moreover, some keys are used to represent letters and signs that don't
exist in English (ñ, ç, ï, ¿, ·, º). So, a few days ago I got locked out
from my administrator account because I created the password in one
language but the Welcome screen only allowed typing in the other
language, so that I couldn't type some of the characters. There's a tab
next to the text field that says which language is admitted, but it
switches for no reason whatsoever and everytime I get to that logon
screen it is either EN (English or CA (Catalan), without giving any
alternative. Last time it had switched back to Catalan, so I hope I
won't have to use the password reset disk. Two weeks ago I had to
reinstall Windows because suddenly it stopped admitting the
administrator's password, and retrospectively I suspect this was the
cause. By the way, both accounts admit only one and the same language
each time I try to log on.
So, is there any way to fix this bug, or else will I have to drop
passwords altogether?
Rubén
Windows XP Media Center edition was bougth in the US and had English as
the default language. I created and use an administrator account and a
limited account. For both I added Catalan and Korean language input
services, and set Catalan as the default language.
Well, Microsoft always instructs us to use complex user account
passwords. For your knowledge, on the Catalan keyboard symbols like @,
-, (, *, or # are placed under totally different keys from English;
moreover, some keys are used to represent letters and signs that don't
exist in English (ñ, ç, ï, ¿, ·, º). So, a few days ago I got locked out
from my administrator account because I created the password in one
language but the Welcome screen only allowed typing in the other
language, so that I couldn't type some of the characters. There's a tab
next to the text field that says which language is admitted, but it
switches for no reason whatsoever and everytime I get to that logon
screen it is either EN (English or CA (Catalan), without giving any
alternative. Last time it had switched back to Catalan, so I hope I
won't have to use the password reset disk. Two weeks ago I had to
reinstall Windows because suddenly it stopped admitting the
administrator's password, and retrospectively I suspect this was the
cause. By the way, both accounts admit only one and the same language
each time I try to log on.
So, is there any way to fix this bug, or else will I have to drop
passwords altogether?
Rubén