Cycleops
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The joys of using a windows laptop, which is one of the reasons I no longer use them.
Laptop password question.
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This has nothing whatsoever to do with Windows. It's an OS agnostic issue relating to the hardware of the laptop.
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Didn't realise they produced God denying laptops & OS systems these days
captain nemo1701
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My work laptop is connected to a 24 widescreen monitor & I now have a separate keyboard. Odd thing is that when I first log in after switching it on, it only accepts the password entered via the laptop keyboard, not the other one. But if I go for lunch & it enters sleep-mode, I can use the standalone keyboard to re-login. My other older laptop never did this so I can only conclude it's the work of our IT dept.My work laptop security asks me every 12 weeks or so to change it and that's how I do it anyway.
We use a lot of 'cloud' & net based things now that require changing passwords regularly . So that means I have to add a new digit to Farageisacompletetwat every 90 days
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Slick
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Yeah, I'm the same although it's still enough to confuse me at times as I do the same with other work systems but because they are all slightly out of synch, I can never remember what digit goes after tw@t for each system.My work laptop is connected to a 24 widescreen monitor & I now have a separate keyboard. Odd thing is that when I first log in after switching it on, it only accepts the password entered via the laptop keyboard, not the other one. But if I go for lunch & it enters sleep-mode, I can use the standalone keyboard to re-login. My other older laptop never did this so I can only conclude it's the work of our IT dept.
We use a lot of 'cloud' & net based things now that require changing passwords regularly . So that means I have to add a new digit to Farageisacompletetwat every 90 days
lazybloke
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You okay Cycleops? I've heard many valid criticisms of Windows over the years, but passwords are hardly a Windows-specific feature!
keithmac
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Apple gear is all well and good until you need to run Automotive diagnostic tools, then it's just an expensive paperweight..
The separate keyboard will be USB. Your system isn’t loading the USB drivers when you first switch on - that happens later during the boot cycle. When you get back from lunch, your laptop is asleep but the USB drivers are still loaded into the system memory, which is why it works then.My work laptop is connected to a 24 widescreen monitor & I now have a separate keyboard. Odd thing is that when I first log in after switching it on, it only accepts the password entered via the laptop keyboard, not the other one. But if I go for lunch & it enters sleep-mode, I can use the standalone keyboard to re-login. My other older laptop never did this so I can only conclude it's the work of our IT dept.
We use a lot of 'cloud' & net based things now that require changing passwords regularly . So that means I have to add a new digit to Farageisacompletetwat every 90 days
Your older laptop would have, most likely, loaded the drivers at an earlier point in the boot sequence.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
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Yes its USB. I thought it just loaded everything on boot up?. I assumed the more advanced models were light years ahead. Seems like a bit of poor software design?. It's an HP, BTW, as is this PC I'm using.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
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- Bristol
windows login.
mjr
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