Dear LPG readers,

I wrote about a year ago of the problems that can happen when you let your computer remember your passwords.  There are two main ones. 

The first is that if you let your computer remember passwords, then you are most likely to forget when you most need them.   As I said when I last wrote on the subject, it is the day that you realise that you need a new computer that reality hits.  The new computer does not remember and you really can’t remember any more because you have not practised remembering by having to manually add it to the appropriate box regularly… 

…And the second is if someone else has occasion to use your computer, when you think about it, if the computer will let you into your emails, Amazon, bank account, or any other web site you need to log into for that matter, it could let anyone in!

Because I make a point of signing in the old way I find it really annoying when the computer asks me if I want it to remember my password every time I log in.  I know that other web browsers do it too, but I always think that Google Chrome is the one that is so busy making this aspect of computer life easier for users, perhaps that is the browser I use more than any other.   Practise does make perfect and many of us have no idea how that bit of practice we get each time we key the characters of the password in during the log in sequence keeps it in our heads for when we really need it.

I have found some information about how to stop the computer asking you if you want to use the password retention facility and wanted to share it with readers, although I suspect that like me you may well have to get someone who knows a little more to do it for you (at this point I have to really thank my grandson)

 KT, Beckenham

KT found some information…

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