Description
of the Bug:
Large
numbers of Windows 95 Dial-up Networking users
are staying up late at night pulling their hair
out over why the Save Password option in their
Connect To dialog box doesn't work. Symptoms
range from being able to select the box and
it not working, to the box being completely
grayed out and inaccessible.
Available
Fix(es):
Option
available but not working:
The
first thing to note when trying to fix this
problem is that for the Save Password option
to work, you must successfully connect to the
remote system at least once with the option
checked before Windows 95 will save your password.
This also means that if you have more than one
connection profile, you need to establish at
least one successful connection with each profile
that you wish to save your password with, even
if your password is the same across all the
profiles.
Option not available (grayed out):
There
are a number of reasons why this may be occurring,
and there are a number of ways you can try and
get around the problem. One method is to change
the Computer Name to the login ID used to login
to Mycybernet. You can modify the computer name
by double-clicking the Network icon in the Control
Panel, then selecting the Identification tab
(you'll have to reboot for the change to take
affect).
Sometimes,
uninstalling and re-installing Dial-up Networking
can solve this problem. In the Control Panel,
choose the Add/Remove Programs option. Then
go to the Windows Setup tab, and uncheck the
Dial-up Networking option. Press OK until all
the dialog boxes are closed, then reboot. Follow
these same instructions and re-check the Dial-up
Networking option. Then try the connection again.
Some users have had luck solving this problem
by installing the Client for Microsoft Networks.
In the Control Panel, open the Network option.
If the Client for Microsoft Networks is not
at or near the top of the list, press the Add
button, then choose Service, Microsoft, and
then Client for Microsoft Networks. Press OK
until all the dialog boxes are closed, then
reboot.
The
last thing to try is deleting your Windows
password file...
Do
a search on your system for *.PWL, then delete
or rename them. Reboot your system, and you'll
notice that Windows will ask for a user name
and password to log in. You're now re-creating
this password information in your system.
You don't have to enter a password here if
you don't want to use one every time you log
in, but you do need to enter a user name.
This will rebuild the password file, and may
allow your Dial-up Networking to save your
dial-up password
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