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Dial-up Password & then some

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by sgo7

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I know this is a common problem, but it's not responding to all the known fixes I can find. I've tried the MS Knowledge Base suggestions. I've tried all the suggestions in the article by Greg Shultz entitled, "Finding Solutions to Problems with the Dial-Up Networking Password" at the MSDN Library. I've removed all network configurations and dial-up configurations and reinstalled all of that.

After a cold boot the dial-up dialog shows no password saved. If I log off and back on the dial-up dialog has my saved password. It works perfectly from then on until another cold boot where I repeat the log-off/on sequence.

I'm also experiencing another frequent anomoly. My pop3 server changes from mail.mindspring.com to localhost and my username gets changed to username/mail.mindspring.com. I have two ISP accounts and they both change for no apparent reason.

HELP! Please...!

Win98SE, AMD800, 128M, 30MHD, Outlook Express IE5

-Steve

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by ong_matthew

You may have disable your win98 from saving any password or config done.
Simply use the poledit to uncheck the box.
Then reboot your system.

by tz440c

Almost certainly the problem is you password file is corrupt, so to solve your first problem the easiest way is to delete it and recreate the file. Firstly know your saved password, you will need to enter them all again, once you have that, run SYSEDIT and in the system.ini file delete your logon id from the [Password Lists] section.

Example:

[Password Lists]
STEVE=C:\WINDOWS\STEVE.PWL

Remove the enter, then delete the PWL file from the windows directory
Restart your machine, log back on, connect back up with save on and you should be back in business

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