Remember My Password, "forgets" my Password

[Boblink]

Hi, have clicked "Remember My ID and Password" nut my system appears to be
very arbitrary in remembering the User ID and / or the Password.
I thought I had checked all the correct boxes but it very arbitrary in what
it remembers and what it doesn't remember.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob

 

[Gordon]

Hi, have clicked "Remember My ID and Password" nut my system appears to
be
very arbitrary in remembering the User ID and / or the Password.
I thought I had checked all the correct boxes but it very arbitrary in
what
it remembers and what it doesn't remember.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob

And what "user ID and password" would this be?

 

[DL]

Remember in what application?

 

[Boblink]

Hi guys, this occurs with several applications and almost ALWAYS happens when
I open IE7.0 (i.e. I advised it to Remember My User ID and Password but when
I open IE again, I am asked for this information again).
It also occasionally occurs with Hotmail my bank,...
It NEVER occurs (i.e. my ID and Password are ALWAYS remembered) with WSJ,
eBay, Paypal....
Some applications it NEVER remembers my User ID and /or Password, some other
applications it ALWAYS remembers them and still others application it's "hit
or miss".
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob

 

[Dave T.]

Hi guys, this occurs with several applications and almost ALWAYS happens when
I open IE7.0 (i.e. I advised it to Remember My User ID and Password but when
I open IE again, I am asked for this information again).
It also occasionally occurs with Hotmail my bank,...
It NEVER occurs (i.e. my ID and Password are ALWAYS remembered) with WSJ,
eBay, Paypal....
Some applications it NEVER remembers my User ID and /or Password, some other
applications it ALWAYS remembers them and still others application it's "hit
or miss".
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob

Very often I experience the same thing whenever I allow one of my
malware apps to clean up low risk items and "MRU's". If you delete the
cookies that these websites place on your computer they no longer know
you, and you have to type in the ID and password again.

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Dave T.


You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito,
Emporer of Japan

 

[Gordon]

Hi guys, this occurs with several applications and almost ALWAYS happens
when
I open IE7.0 (i.e. I advised it to Remember My User ID and Password but
when
I open IE again, I am asked for this information again).

Ummm you don't NEED a "User ID and password" to open IE7. What are yoy doing
EXACTLY?

Some applications it NEVER remembers my User ID and /or Password, some
other
applications it ALWAYS remembers them and still others application it's
"hit
or miss".

<Sigh> and WHAT "applications" ARE THEY? (Blood and stone springs to mind -
no-one here can see your computer....)

 

[Boblink]

Sorry Gordon, what I meant to say is when I open Yahoo Mail with Mozilla, no
problem, it remembers my ID and Password but when I open Yahoo Mail with
IE70, it does NOR remember my ID and/or Password, it ALWAYS asks for my ID
and Password. I did NOT do anything different with IE and it works fine with
Mozilla but NOT with IE.
Thanks,
Bob

 

[Boblink]

Hi Dave, an interesting theory but when I tested it, I don't believe that it
holds true. I opened and closed Yahoo Mail five consecutive times with IE7.0
and did NOT run any Malware/Spyware programs (which I usually run at night)
and ALL five times, Yahoo Mail asked me for my User ID and Password. When I
did the same thing with Mozilla, Yahoo Mail opened without any "handholdong".

 

[Gordon]

Sorry Gordon, what I meant to say is when I open Yahoo Mail with Mozilla,
no
problem, it remembers my ID and Password but when I open Yahoo Mail with
IE70, it does NOR remember my ID and/or Password, it ALWAYS asks for my ID
and Password. I did NOT do anything different with IE and it works fine
with
Mozilla but NOT with IE.
Thanks,
Bob

Sounds like the cookies options have been changed - it does happen!
Try adding the Yahoo Mail url to Trusted Sites - Internet Options-Security.
Click on Trusted Sites and then on the Sites button.

 

[Boblink]

Thanks Gordon.

Sounds like the cookies options have been changed - it does happen!
Try adding the Yahoo Mail url to Trusted Sites - Internet Options-Security.
Click on Trusted Sites and then on the Sites button.

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