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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