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PA Bear [MS MVP]

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Jul 13, 2008, 12:38:53 AM7/13/08
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Francis Marsden wrote:
> (IE7, XP Home) The hotmail login site will remember my email address, but
> not the password, even though I have checked "remember email and password"
> .
> Is there any way to get this to work?

Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM

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Jul 13, 2008, 7:56:06 AM7/13/08
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Passport (or Windows Live ID) almost never remember the password.

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Jan :)

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Jul 13, 2008, 9:39:39 AM7/13/08
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> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Forwarded to Internet Mail newsgroup via crosspost.
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>> ~PA Bear
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>> Francis Marsden wrote:
>>> (IE7, XP Home) The hotmail login site will remember my email address,
>>> but
>>> not the password, even though I have checked "remember email and
>>> password" .
>>> Is there any way to get this to work?
>>
>
> Passport (or Windows Live ID) almost never remember the password.

Hotmail has never has remembered the password in all the years I've used it,
neither has Gmail or Windows Live ID since they came about, and it does not
matter which version of IE I have used.

Jan :)


PA Bear [MS MVP]

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Jul 13, 2008, 3:04:07 PM7/13/08
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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM wrote:
>> Forwarded to Internet Mail newsgroup via crosspost.
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>> ~PA Bear
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>> Francis Marsden wrote:
>>> (IE7, XP Home) The hotmail login site will remember my email address,
>>> but
>>> not the password, even though I have checked "remember email and
>>> password" .
>>> Is there any way to get this to work?
>
> Passport (or Windows Live ID) almost never remember the password.

Yes, but I've always wondered why WLMessenger will remember both?

Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM

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Jul 13, 2008, 4:42:07 PM7/13/08
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So does Windows Mail.

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