Microsoft Request to Remember Login

[Guest randau]

Microsoft's request to remember my Login appears on some of my Login

web pages after entering the Login info for the first time. It then

auto completes Login info in the future on that web page (as it's

suppose to). But on other Login web pages, the Microsoft request to

remember my Login never appears. Is there some way of making it

appear or manually getting Microsoft to remember a web page Login?

 

Does the web page itself determine whether or not Microsoft will offer

to remember the Login info?

 

Some web page Login's have a "remember me" box which I usually check,

but doesn't seem to have any effect on whether or not the Microsoft

request to remember my Login appears or wether the login is

remembered.

[Guest Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Re: Microsoft Request to Remember Login

 

"randau" <spamjunkmail2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:92f7d6fd-d8fa-4818-804a-6f1b3d24b261@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com...

> Microsoft's request to remember my Login appears on some of my Login

> web pages after entering the Login info for the first time. It then

> auto completes Login info in the future on that web page (as it's

> suppose to). But on other Login web pages, the Microsoft request to

> remember my Login never appears. Is there some way of making it

> appear or manually getting Microsoft to remember a web page Login?

>

> Does the web page itself determine whether or not Microsoft will offer

> to remember the Login info?

>

> Some web page Login's have a "remember me" box which I usually check,

> but doesn't seem to have any effect on whether or not the Microsoft

> request to remember my Login appears or wether the login is

> remembered.

>

 

Yes, a Web page can prevent IE from remembering the password. Man financial

sites especially do this.

 

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[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: Microsoft Request to Remember Login

 

randau wrote:

> Microsoft's request to remember my Login appears on some of my Login

> web pages after entering the Login info for the first time. It then

> auto completes Login info in the future on that web page (as it's

> suppose to). But on other Login web pages, the Microsoft request to

> remember my Login never appears. Is there some way of making it

> appear or manually getting Microsoft to remember a web page Login?

>

> Does the web page itself determine whether or not Microsoft will

> offer to remember the Login info?

>

> Some web page Login's have a "remember me" box which I usually

> check, but doesn't seem to have any effect on whether or not the

> Microsoft request to remember my Login appears or wether the login

> is remembered.

 

Microsoft is not prompting you for anything. Microsoft is a company who may

have made some software/application/operating system that you are utilizing

and that software/application/operating system may be prompting you for

things - but not Microsoft.

 

Assuming you mean Internet Explorer - which version?

 

There are many ways a web site can prompt you to logon. Some of those can

be remembered by various Internet Browsers (Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet

Explorer 7.0, Firefox, Opera, etc.) and some cannot - simply because of the

authentication method or method of asking you for your username/password

that the web page operator has chosen.

 

It is bad security practice to have the web browsers remember the username

*and* password for a given web page. Makes it a simple thing for someone

who gains access to your computer to gain access to the web pages you

utilize.

 

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Shenan Stanley

MS-MVP

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[Guest randau]

Re: Microsoft Request to Remember Login

 

On Mar 23, 2:49 pm, "Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM"

<franksaund...@mvps.org> wrote:

> "randau" <spamjunkmail2...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

>

> news:92f7d6fd-d8fa-4818-804a-6f1b3d24b261@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com...

>

> > Microsoft's request to remember my Login appears on some of my Login

> > web pages after entering the Login info for the first time.  It then

> > auto completes Login info in the future on that web page (as it's

> > suppose to).  But on other Login web pages, the Microsoft request to

> > remember my Login never appears.  Is there some way of making it

> > appear or manually getting Microsoft to remember a web page Login?

>

> > Does the web page itself determine whether or not Microsoft will offer

> > to remember the Login info?

>

> > Some web page Login's have a "remember me" box which I usually check,

> > but doesn't seem to have any effect on whether or not the Microsoft

> > request to remember my Login appears or wether the login is

> > remembered.

>

> Yes, a Web page can prevent IE from remembering the password.  Man financial

> sites especially do this.

>

> --

> Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WMwww.fjsmjs.com

> Do not reply with email

 

Thank you Frank, that's the answer I was looking for.

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randau