No option to save passwords in IE under XP Home

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When prompted for a user-id and password on a web site using IE 6.0 and
Windows XP Pro, I am presented with a check-off box to save the values.
However, under Windows XP Home, no such check-off box exists. Does anybody
know why?
 
SydCytronics said:
When prompted for a user-id and password on a web site using IE 6.0 and
Windows XP Pro, I am presented with a check-off box to save the values.
However, under Windows XP Home, no such check-off box exists. Does anybody
know why?
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Sorry Frank but your reply is not correct. You imply that I can simply
establish the settings to save the passwords. However, the settings in XP
Home are identical to those in XP Pro and I still do not get the prompt to
save the passwords when connecting to a web site using IE 6.0 and XP Home.
Any other suggestions?

Syd.
 
Thanks for the effort but the link proved to be of no value. One topic
referred to RSAbase.dll being unregistered and I do not have such an object.
However, neither do I have that object on another PC running XP Professional
where I have no problem.
 
Sid, I've encountered the exact problem, and was also re-directed to totally
useless sites - *all of the thread replies have been worthless...IE 6 with
WINXP (not outlook express or 1e5*
would sure appreciate a simple fix.

:)
 
Hi.

When and if I get an answer, I will certainly post it. For now, I decided to
bite the bullet and called Microsoft support with my credit card ready and
waiting. So far, they are also stumped. I did learn one thing though. Under
XP Professional, if you call up the user profile in Control Panel/User
Accounts and click "Manage my network passwords" on the upper left side, you
get a facility to pre-store usernames and passords. The "Add" button exists
and you can actually define a server set of credentials but, the password is
not retained. In XP Home, however, there is no "Add" button and so this is a
further example of the problem.
 
interesting, the strange part is, all was working fine with my password save,
etc until just a few weeks ago. It's not like this problem of auto-complete
was something I pulled out of thin air. I'd appreciate your input if you find
out!
;)
thanks
 
SydCytronics said:
Hi.

When and if I get an answer, I will certainly post it. For now, I decided to
bite the bullet and called Microsoft support with my credit card ready and
waiting. So far, they are also stumped. I did learn one thing though. Under
XP Professional, if you call up the user profile in Control Panel/User
Accounts and click "Manage my network passwords" on the upper left side, you
get a facility to pre-store usernames and passords. The "Add" button exists
and you can actually define a server set of credentials but, the password is
not retained. In XP Home, however, there is no "Add" button and so this is a
further example of the problem.
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Are you connected when you do that?
FWIW that shows a list of my Passport accounts. ;o

BTW if this is the type of password you are having a problem with,
e.g. not an AutoComplete problem, you would get better assistance
in a newsgroup which specializes in security for your OS.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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I call Microsoft with my credit card in hand and ended up at a more advanced
support level. They failed to provide a valid answer. They said that XP Home
did not support saving passwords by design. They also said that by design,
passwords were not to be saved in XP Professional because "since we would be
sending the passwords over the internet, it was not safe to save them". I
laughed when they said that. Apparently, manually entering the password to be
sent over the internet is safer than saving them on the user's system and
then sending it over the internet. In conclusion, Microsoft has a flaw in
their system and does not intend to fix it.

Over and out.
 
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