logon

"txgeek" <anon> wrote in message news:uoIHlp8BJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> unable to logon. did not forget PW. sometimes I can retype PW 50+
> times and then it will logon. but somedays NO.
> any hints?

Make sure "Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" are set correctly.
If the password is all lower case, "Caps Lock" should
be off and if it contains numbers, "Num Lock" should be on.

Ben

yes, of course. both the obvious are not the problem.


are there known hiccups in 2000 that might cause this?

thanx



Ben Myers wrote:
> "txgeek" <anon> wrote in message news:uoIHlp8BJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
>>unable to logon. did not forget PW. sometimes I can retype PW 50+
>>times and then it will logon. but somedays NO.
>>any hints?
>
>
> Make sure "Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" are set correctly.
> If the password is all lower case, "Caps Lock" should
> be off and if it contains numbers, "Num Lock" should be on.
>
> Ben

I would think that if there were "known hiccups in 2000 that would cause
this", even MS would have had to fix it by now.

Perhaps as "obvious" as the previous response, but have you tried
another keyboard? A flakey keyboard or single key is about the most
likely think I can think of. Or keyboard cable/connector.

If you use a wireless keyboard, try a wired kind and see if the problem
goes away.




txgeek wrote:
> yes, of course. both the obvious are not the problem.
>
>
> are there known hiccups in 2000 that might cause this?
>
> thanx
>
>
>
> Ben Myers wrote:
>> "txgeek" <anon> wrote in message
>> news:uoIHlp8BJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>>> unable to logon. did not forget PW. sometimes I can retype PW 50+
>>> times and then it will logon. but somedays NO.
>>> any hints?
>>
>>
>> Make sure "Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" are set correctly.
>> If the password is all lower case, "Caps Lock" should
>> be off and if it contains numbers, "Num Lock" should be on.
>>
>> Ben

your confidence in MS is misplaced, ere there would be no need for
these noozgroops.

thx for 0.

have a great holiday wknd.

Sid Elbow wrote:
> I would think that if there were "known hiccups in 2000 that would cause
> this", even MS would have had to fix it by now.
>
> Perhaps as "obvious" as the previous response, but have you tried
> another keyboard? A flakey keyboard or single key is about the most
> likely think I can think of. Or keyboard cable/connector.
>
> If you use a wireless keyboard, try a wired kind and see if the problem
> goes away.
>
>
>
>
> txgeek wrote:
>
>> yes, of course. both the obvious are not the problem.
>>
>>
>> are there known hiccups in 2000 that might cause this?
>>
>> thanx
>>
>>
>>
>> Ben Myers wrote:
>>
>>> "txgeek" <anon> wrote in message
>>> news:uoIHlp8BJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>> unable to logon. did not forget PW. sometimes I can retype PW 50+
>>>> times and then it will logon. but somedays NO.
>>>> any hints?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Make sure "Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" are set correctly.
>>> If the password is all lower case, "Caps Lock" should
>>> be off and if it contains numbers, "Num Lock" should be on.
>>>
>>> Ben

txgeek wrote:
> your confidence in MS is misplaced, ere there would be no need for these
> noozgroops.

Not confidence really ... just that if your problem were the least bit
common there would have been multiple reports here (and other places)
and, given the nature of it's severity and impact, MS could hardly have
ignored it (as they have done for some minor bugs).

> thx for 0.

Nice. I assume that means you had previously eliminated the keyboard and
associated hardware as the source of the problem (or you otherwise know
"off the top of your head" that it's not the source). Pity you didn't
say so when you initially stated the problem. It would have saved me,
and others, spending the time trying to find an answer to the problem
that *you asked* for assistance on.

> have a great holiday wknd.

Oh I intend to. Perhaps you should get out and relax too. You obviously
can't spend much time at the computer

Imagine, a "bug" that prevents users from loging on (read "using") the
operating system and no one has ever heard about it! This wouldn't be
an obscure bug encountered by someone who uses a scarcely known function
hidden deep inside the operating system, this would be a bug at the very
first step necessary for using the operating system, something that
every one needs to do whenever they start Windows 2000, something that
has been done on a daily basis since 1999, something done by hundreds of
millions of users billions of times... and you have discovered a Windows
2000 logon "hiccup"... Possible? Yes, but not plausible, it is highly
unlikely that there is a logon bug.

John

txgeek wrote:

> your confidence in MS is misplaced, ere there would be no need for these
> noozgroops.
>
> thx for 0.
>
> have a great holiday wknd.
>
> Sid Elbow wrote:
>
>> I would think that if there were "known hiccups in 2000 that would
>> cause this", even MS would have had to fix it by now.
>>
>> Perhaps as "obvious" as the previous response, but have you tried
>> another keyboard? A flakey keyboard or single key is about the most
>> likely think I can think of. Or keyboard cable/connector.
>>
>> If you use a wireless keyboard, try a wired kind and see if the
>> problem goes away.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> txgeek wrote:
>>
>>> yes, of course. both the obvious are not the problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> are there known hiccups in 2000 that might cause this?
>>>
>>> thanx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ben Myers wrote:
>>>
>>>> "txgeek" <anon> wrote in message
>>>> news:uoIHlp8BJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>>
>>>>> unable to logon. did not forget PW. sometimes I can retype PW 50+
>>>>> times and then it will logon. but somedays NO.
>>>>> any hints?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Make sure "Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" are set correctly.
>>>> If the password is all lower case, "Caps Lock" should
>>>> be off and if it contains numbers, "Num Lock" should be on.
>>>>
>>>> Ben