Not the keyboard, its on Google's end.

Other accounts can still be accessed from this PC.  
Also non-google accounts with far more complicated passwords






On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 23:00:32 UTC+2, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Andy <ai.e...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Pissed Gmailers Inc. <manos...@gmail.com 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm the only one who logged in to my account.
>>>
>>> However i can't see if someone else has been trying to log in?
>>> It only shows successful logins... So thats the same as not showing 
>>> anything at all!
>>>
>>
>> ​I think the recommendation to see if anyone else has logged in, is to 
>> see if someone else might be changing your password on you.​  A suddenly 
>> changed password is one sign of that.
>>
>> If someone else repeatedly attempts to login and fails, I believe it will 
>> lock you out completely.  I think the fact that you are able to reset your 
>> password and then login, without having to wait another day or so, shows 
>> that this is not what happened.  (But I could be wrong.)
>>
>> I have not changed anything to my account, one day it worked and the 
>>> other it just forgot my password.
>>>
>> ​...
>>
>>> It almost feels like google lost data... And looses it over and over 
>>> again...
>>>
>>
>> ​​Perhaps, instead of them forgetting your password, ​your computer (note 
>> I didn't say *you*, necessarily) is sending the wrong password.  There are 
>> some reasons why that would happen -- having CapsLock stuck ON being one of 
>> them -- perhaps others too.
>>
>> When Gmail changed its login screen about a month ago, with separate 
>> username and password "screens", I have more trouble logging in now, 
>> because I start typing the password too early and the first few characters 
>> are lost.  I was used to typing it all in fast, using the Tab key, and I 
>> miss that.  Old habits are hard to break.
>> ​
>>
>>> It is just a waste of time and it to me it feels like Google is loosing 
>>> grip on its own stuff.  
>>>
>>
>> ​It is peculiar that this is not a widespread problem.  Yours is the 
>> only​ complaint about it that I've seen.  That would tend to indicate that 
>> the problem might be unique to your computer, or (shall I say it) to the 
>> person in front of the computer, not something endemic to Google.
>>
>> At work, there is a computer I occasionally use, where I have one heck of 
>> a hard time logging in.  The computer seems to skip keystrokes 
>> occasionally, and this seems to happen when logging in.  But I can see it 
>> when I type my email address too.  Stupid computer.
>>
>
> It could be the keyboard.  I have seen keyboards go out where some keys 
> don't work so well anymore.  Or if it is a wireless keyboard I have seen 
> where either the signal is not good or the battery is dying it misses 
> keystrokes.
>
> Jeff
>

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