re: Windows does not recognize my logon password
Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Avigayil
(9 messages posted)
A follow up to this message, it may be helpful to others with the same problem.
When I restarted the computer, using the classic log on, I typed in my password into
the user name field so I could see what I was actually writing in the password field.
So I found out that the - (dash) symbol I use in my password is actually typed as
' (an apostrophe). I typed in any other key and neither one of them were as displayed
on my keyboard. E.g. the double quote " was typed as à. No wonder Windows rejected
my password! It's because the keyboard setting is not English US (as the physical
keyboard is). Now I will need to figure out why this problem occurs and how to solve
it. :-) Thanks for your support!
On Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 6:21 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>Leave the Administrator account alone, except add a good password. Create a new
Administrator
>level account called Avigayil with any password you want. Shutdown and reboot. You
>should be able to login as Avigayil. Now click on Start then Logoff and logoff of
>Avigayil. Select Administrator and enter the password you chose for that account
>and you should be able to login okay.
>The big advantage to this is you always have a way to recover if/when your password
>on your main account (Avigayil) somehow gets whacked.
> Renaming the Administrator account should work, but since you're having problems,
>take the path of least resistance.
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