Dial_Up Connection password

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When I attempt to get on the Internet through Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6, I get a small window titled "Dial-up Connection", which
requires a password. A password is already there, but it is always the
wrong 16 character password, and mine is an 8 character password.

I can access the Internet by erasing the password and entering the
correct one.

I have tried every way I can think of, to have my correct password
come up in this window, but nothing has worked.

I of course have checked the box, "Save Password".

Where is that hidden place in the software, where I can enter my
password and have it stick?
 
Jim Rich said:
When I attempt to get on the Internet through Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6, I get a small window titled "Dial-up Connection", which
requires a password. A password is already there, but it is always the
wrong 16 character password, and mine is an 8 character password.

I can access the Internet by erasing the password and entering the
correct one.

I have tried every way I can think of, to have my correct password
come up in this window, but nothing has worked.

I of course have checked the box, "Save Password".

Where is that hidden place in the software, where I can enter my
password and have it stick?
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Your password is in there correctly. You don't need to change it every
time. This is XP's way of hiding the true length of your password to anyone
else.
 
Jim Rich said:
When I attempt to get on the Internet through Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6, I get a small window titled "Dial-up Connection", which
requires a password. A password is already there, but it is always the
wrong 16 character password, and mine is an 8 character password.
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This is by design. You always get the 16 bullets of black dots in the box
to start with irrespective of what the true length the user's password is;
2, 3, 5 or in your case 8 all make no difference. This is to make it harder
for anyone who has an unhealthy interest in your password to make a correct
guess: for starter, he/she doesn't know how many characters your password
has.

Bee.
 
When I attempt to get on the Internet through Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6, I get a small window titled "Dial-up Connection", which
requires a password. A password is already there, but it is always the
wrong 16 character password, and mine is an 8 character password.

I can access the Internet by erasing the password and entering the
correct one.

I have tried every way I can think of, to have my correct password
come up in this window, but nothing has worked.

I of course have checked the box, "Save Password".

Where is that hidden place in the software, where I can enter my
password and have it stick?
Click to expand...

I appreciate all the answers about the extra characters occuring by
design and I didn't know that, but it didn't solve my problem. I had
tried getting online by just clicking on the Dial-Up window many times
and it never worked unless I deleted the 16 characters that were there
and substituting the proper 8 character and then it always worked.

So I still would like to know how I can permanently the right ones.
 
Jim Rich said:
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....I had tried getting online by just clicking on the Dial-Up window
many times and it never worked unless I deleted the 16 characters
that were there and substituting the proper 8 character..<snip>
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To dial-up and get connected to the internet *manually*, you click the
[Dial] button at the Rt. bottom corner of the network connection dialogue
box ( [Start] > [Connect To] > [your ISP icon] ). If that works, that
indicates your computer dial-up setup has been configured correctly and you
are ready for dialing up *automatically*. This is an affirmation that you
have the username, password, and the default ISP phone number already
registered and accepted. If not, you have to go through the Internet
Connection Wizard once more.

The Dial-up Connection dialogue box that appears when you click, say, your
ISP shortcut on the desktop is part of the *automatic* process. The reason
that it stops where you need to manually enter your password to proceed to
the next stage is because you have not set the automatic process up yet!
What normally happens is when this dialogue box appears for the first time
following a successful ISP setup, the [Connect automatically] (in the box)
should be ticked, followed by clicking [Connect]. From then on, every time
you click a link/shortcut to some internet site, the web page will open for
you, stepping through this Dial-up Connection stage automatically without
any human intervention. There is no requirement for touching the password
box here at all, ever.

Bee.
 
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