What is a master password in Windows 7?

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• HP spends request master password

  I have a HP dv6-6c54nr Bit win7. My simple pass stopped working on windows months ago connection, I checked the control panel and that wasn't the problem. Now it does not work on half of the Web sites and when that happens he asked master password or windows. I think its time to uninstall and reinstall. Can anyone help?

  Hi Ned,.

  You could well be right.  Same good software can corrupt to be on the system for some time.

  If you can open the software at all, Please do an export of your webcards before you reinstall / repair software SimplePass.

  Export the Webcard database:

  If you have working software SimplePass, export your Webcards before proceeding.  In the case where you must remove the SimplePass software, your webcard backup can be used (imported) to restore your Web site login information.

  Start SimplePass > parameters > export NOTE: file will be called *.tsd

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  Ensure that you have copies of your driver and SimplePass software installation packages:

  Go to the top of this Forum - Support and drivers

   

  • Enter your model number of the laptop
  • Open the HP web page for your product / model
  • Go to the page software and driver downloads
  • Enter your operating system

  Software downloads & Driver - HP Pavilion dv6-6c54nr notebook PC

  • Scroll down - go to the category driver-keyboard, mouse and input devices
  • Select 'fingerprint sensor driver digital validity"(New Version)
  • Save this package on your computer.  Make a note of the file NAME and its location.
  • If so, go to the category Software - Security section and click to open it.
  • Select the package SimplePass
  • Save this package on your computer.  Make a note of the file NAME and its location.

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  Try to repair the SImplePass software:
  

   

  Control Panel > programs and features >

  Looking for this program:

  Right-click on HP SimplePass
  Select "repair".

   

  
  If the "repair" does not work, you can uninstall the software and reinstall the package you downloaded from the website of your HP.

  Once you get the HP SimplePass software reinstalled,

  • Restart the system,
  • Log in with your password,
  • Start the software SimplePass
  • Register for fingerprints,
  • stop if you want, disconnect and check if the connection works...
  • -Restart the software, and then import this file with your webcards .tsd.

  Good luck!

• I forgot my master password. I used to the link provided and it gives me the possibility to reset or cancel. I click reset and nothing happens. What now?

  I forgot my master password. I used the address provided to reset. He takes me to the page that tells me that all passwords will be forgotten and gives the possibility to RESET or CANCEL. I try choosing RESET and nothing happens. What am I doing here?

  Hello DawnC, what you could do in this case is to manually delete the password in your profile folder: go to firefox > help > troubleshooting information, click on file/show profile folder and close all firefox windows later. a windows Explorer window should open - delete or rename files named signons.sqlite (and if all other files of text beginning by sign) & signons3.txt - they will be regenerated the next time you start the browser again.

• How to reset the master password without disc or flashcard for windows 7

  How di I reset a forgotten master passwword

  Keep passwords secure - Microsoft on passwords strategy
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/189126

  What to do if you forget your Windows password:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/what-to-do-if-you-forget-your-Windows-password

• You want to implement the master password. Instructions say go to the window/button firefox, options, tools, options, etc. I don't have these buttons on Firefox. ?

  attempt to set the password according to the instructions on your Web site; However, I do not think that I have a toolbar that you want to use. Who can I load on. I don't want to put on one that doesn't really work.

  In the left column of the article, under editing tools, you can select your version of Firefox and Windows, where you followed a link code for an older version. For Windows 7 + Firefox 40:

  https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/use-master-password-protect-stored-logins#Firefox:Win7:FX40

• Lost my masterpassword, I uninstalled and installed Firefox, but when I reinstall the device remembers my settings (master password including), what can I do?

  I tried to install and reinstall the browser, but it does not work.

  What should I do to install as a new and if I can set up my new master password or recover my old one?

  Hello lmoncada, for instructions, please refer to reset your master password if you forgot

• Can't see 'Tools' tab on the Thunderbird window, to set the master password.

  I'm trying to create a master password to access the e-mail. The instructions say to go to 'tools' / 'options', etc. I don't see any 'Tools' tab on my Thunderbird window.

  ALT - T

• Someone has put a master password in my Firefox without my permission, how to erase it if I don't know what it is?

  A few days back somebody, more than probably one of my children put a master password in my Firefox browser. Now I can not connect in my crosshairs pay Bill or anything else, as he continues to ask me a master password that nobody seems to know what is. Is there a way to clean that? If so, how? I rather not completely it blow and start over.

  Thanks for your attempts to help, but I could finally understand what the kids had done. He ended up not being that they have changed or entered one. The problem stems from the bar one of them was installed, after I deleted it I managed to enter a master password and recover all without losing all my passwords saved a tool. I learned something from that however, I now have a copy of my signons3.txt file saved someplace safe, so if something happens in the future I have a copy backup.

• Downloaded Firefox to my computer. He installed a master password and I have no idea what it is. Any suggestions?

  This morning, I downloaded Firefox to my desktop. He asked the master password whenever I have a site where I have to enter my password. I don't know what it could be because I did not have a master password and he asked one during installation. I tried to turn it off, but it does not work because you must enter the password. Does anyone have suggestions on what to do other than go back to Internet Explorer, which I prefer not to do?

  Had never installed before Firefox? If so, your new installation picked a former framework. Otherwise, hmmm, very strange.

  If you do not want Firefox to save connections, you can disable it and that should eliminate the prompt for the password.

  Orange Firefox button or classic menu Tools > Options > Security

  Uncheck "Remember passwords for sites"

  If you do want Firefox to store connections, you will need to clear the master password. This will remove the connections already registered. The following article has the steps to do this: I forgot my master password. Troubleshooting | Firefox Help.

  Who help me?

• I used a master password for years. Today, I noticed that it had been authorized. What could cause this?

  I used a master password for years. I also use Sync. Today, I wanted to watch one of my saved passwords. When I went to do this, I noticed that Firefox was no longer is configured to use a master password. I'm afraid I can have been hacked, or that something is is past (recent update Firefox?) which caused the use of the master password will be disabled.

  I have not yet checked my other computers synced to see if their master password has been disabled.

  I have re-enabled the functionality of password on this computer.

  On this particular computer, I had a long-standing issue date where Firefox ' help > about Firefox "still says I need to"restart to update. This means that I can't use "help > about Firefox ' to check and install the latest version. I need to download Firefox manually and update by running the installation program.

  If the files have already been downloaded, then delete the files in the folder updates\0 and updates.

  You can also remove active - update.xml, or even updates.xml (this will clear the update history).

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Updates_reported_when_running_newest_version
  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Software_Update (Update works not properly)

  C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
  (%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox)
  

  C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
  (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox)
  

• Why my master password does not meet the correct password, in that I get

  After you set up a master password in security settings constantly, he asked for it, but when I get in there it does not recognize the password. I wrote it down in order to avoid this problem. I don't know that it is the only one I chose. try again again and again did not help.
  Please help me. What do you think is the best way to solve this problem?

  Hello

  Refresh (called "Reset" in older versions of Firefox) can solve a lot of problems in restaurant Firefox as his default factory while saving your bookmarks, history, passwords, cookies, and other essential information.

  Note: When you use this feature, you will lose all the extensions, toolbar customizations, and certain preferences. See article Firefox Refresh - reset modules and parameters for more information.

  Refresh for Firefox:

  1. Open the troubleshooting information page using one of the following methods:
     • Click the menu button

       

       click Help

       

       and select troubleshooting information. Should open a new tab containing your troubleshooting information.

     • If you are unable to access the Help menu, type Subject: support in your address bar to bring up the troubleshooting information page.
  2. At the top right of the page, you should see a button that says 'Refresh Firefox' ('reset Firefox' in older versions of Firefox). Click on it.
  3. Firefox closes. Once the update process is complete, Firefox will display a window with the imported information.
  4. Click Finish and reopen Firefox.

  This corrects the problem? Please report to us!

  Thank you.

• Mail master password hidden

  Is it possible for content of messages hidden in all those who ignore the master password?
  If I don't type the password I can't download new messages, but I can read all the mail folder, and this is a problem of security nonsense.
  Why Thunderbird does not create a master password that hid everything in boxes to the letters?

  Thank you very much, Matteo.

  I answered a similar question yesterday and some of what I wrote then can apply to you also:

  https://support.Mozilla.org/en-us/questions/1034630

  Specifically for the protection of the entire profile, you can find the extension useful StartupMaster:

  https://addons.Mozilla.org/en-us/Thunderbird/addon/StartupMaster/

  It is perhaps not obvious from the description, but once installed, the first thing you see is a connection password prompt, and only when that has been entered correctly the main Thunderbird window appears.

  Keep in mind that, since it is implemented by an add-on, a user can easily circumvent the password challenge, and in all cases, your emails are stored in plain text and can be discovered by anyone by browsing your file system.

  Thunderbird developers chose not to reinvent the wheel; If you are concerned about prvacy, they assumed that the users use the tools built into the operating system; user accounts, logins, passwords and encrypted file systems.

• security breach critical firefox? does not require master password

  I put with a master password in firefox. When I start the computer and firefox, it opens the browser to the way I saved him when I stopped. This includes the sites that require passwords. They all open with no password request. Then randomly at a time later asked me the master password. Shouldn't it ask the password first, before opening protected sites?

  It's a little complicated.

  If you allow sites to set persistent cookies to keep you logged between sessions, Firefox never needs to use your password saved; you are already on each visit to both Firefox keeps the cookie (weeks, months or years depending on what the site specified).

  Alternatively, if you limit the sites to the definition of session cookies, after you close Firefox, these cookies are normally deleted. But there is an exception for the windows and tabs you left pending.

  When you restore a previous session, Firefox reverts this session cookies, including those you kept connected sites. Secure sites (HTTPS) are treated differently depending on when you restore your session:

  • When Firefox is set to start automatically with windows and tabs: secure session cookies are maintained and restored. Your registered username is unnecessary and not used.
  • When Firefox is set to start at the top with a home page, and you have the ability to restore your previous session manually: secure session cookies are ignored. You will need to identify yourself again.

  So, if (1) allow you sites to set persistent cookies, or (2) have set to restore your previous session of Firefox, and you do not close the session, it would be normal that no logon is required when revisiting the secured sites.

  To make sure that this does not happen, you have a few different options:

  (1) use only session cookies AND change some hidden settings to ensure that they are not saved when your session is restored; or

  (2) delete all cookies at the stop.

  I can list for those steps if you are interested.

• Enter master password prompt is broken.

  The browser used to ask the master password when you had to fill in a name of user and password. Now it randomly comes up with the prompt during the first two pages, normally when I type in a URL. and I hit the darn prompt is to eat what I'm typing. Either ask him as SOON as the browser opens or when she needs it but they functioning now is so boring I mostly spent same IE thought that I used to love firefox. They are never going to solve this problem!

  The reset Firefox feature can solve a lot of problems in restaurant Firefox to its factory default condition while saving your vital information.
  Note: This will make you lose all the Extensions, open Web sites and preferences.

  To reset Firefox, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to Firefox > help > troubleshooting information.
  2. Click on the button 'Reset Firefox'.
  3. Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is finished, it will display a window with the imported information. Click Finish.
  4. Firefox opens with all the default settings applied.

  Information can be found in the article Firefox Refresh - reset the settings and Add-ons .

  This solve your problems? Please report to us!

• I'm using firefox 5.0 & I use a master password. Whenever I open firefox, it asks the password. It happened not in previous versions. Is there a way to stop popping up everytime, rather than turn off the password

  I'm using firefox 5.0 & I use a master password. Whenever I open firefox, it asks the password. It didn't happen in the previous versions of firefox. I don't want to disable my master password. Is there a way to stop what is happening each time? Is this a bug in the new version.

  Start Firefox in Firefox to solve the issues in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions of the origin of the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > appearance/themes).

  • Makes no changes on the start safe mode window.
  • https://support.Mozilla.com/kb/safe+mode
  • https://support.Mozilla.com/kb/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes