David Vielmetter

Tag: Password

A review of LastPass

My memory isn’t what it used to be and there seems to be an ever increasing number of passwords to remember. Also due to an identity theft scare a few years ago I’ve made it a habit to change my passwords for sensitive accounts every 6 months to a year, but I always ended up…

July 22, 2014
The User Profile Service failed to logon

Got this message on a client workstation last week. It was running managed Symantec Endpoint Protection client 12.1…so much for that. The message is caused by a clever virus/worm/malware application which makes a small change in the Windows 7 registry and voila users can’t log in anymore…all they get is the following message when they…

November 23, 2011
Export your saved passwords in Firefox

In this post I’ll show how to export your Firefox saved passwords to a nice HTML file for safe keeping in the event of a disaster. It’s true that there is already a handy utility called Mozbackup that lets you backup your Firefox profile including all your saved passwords, but this method does not let…

July 2, 2009