Re: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-05 Thread David Connors
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:45 AM, David Connors wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:12 AM, David Connors wrote: > >> It is like the crypto API stores app passwords encrypted with your logon >> password ... but I can't imagine Windows would be that retarded. >> > > Turns out it is: > http://blogs.msd

RE: [OT] Opening shell folders

2013-05-05 Thread Ian Thomas
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[OT] Opening shell folders

2013-05-05 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, I was just looking for the "Send To" folder in Windows 8 and a web search led me to this page which describes an interesting technique for quickly opening special folders: http://www.nextofwindows.com/quickly-access-system-folders-with-shell-commands-in-windows-7-and-8/ You can go Run > she

Re: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-05 Thread Greg Keogh
Just as an aside ... that article announces the upcoming arrival of the ProtectedDataclass in 'Whidbey' (remember that?) which makes scrambling with the user or machine key trivially easy. I forgot th

Re: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-05 Thread David Connors
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:12 AM, David Connors wrote: > It is like the crypto API stores app passwords encrypted with your logon > password ... but I can't imagine Windows would be that retarded. > Turns out it is: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnfa/archive/2004/05/05/126825.aspx Except the magic '

Re: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-05 Thread David Connors
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Williams, Thomas wrote: > Does your work have a web proxy? > No. It is definitely client based. As in Gtalk starts with an empty password box every time after I change my Windows password when it expires on the domain. This is related to an issue I am having with

RE: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-05 Thread Williams, Thomas
Does your work have a web proxy? Thomas From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Monday, 6 May 2013 7:08 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Windows forgetting app passwords Howdy, Nothing to do with .NET but I thought I would throw this

Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-05 Thread David Connors
Howdy, Nothing to do with .NET but I thought I would throw this out there and see if anyone has any ideas. I have a number of apps that have their own password stored in them (Lync, GTalk, etc) that I set to auto-sign-on when I log into my work PC. Whenever my domain password expires, all of the