Lost Passwords

aardvaak

OH's computer did the pointless microsoft fall update and now computer has lost it's passwords.

Does anyone know why and how to get them back?

This update is pointless as when my computer did it I can see no difference to before

What differences are there supposed to be?

John_Gray

To which 'passwords' do you refer?
To which 'update' do you refer?
Not more than 1% of your readers are psychic...

aardvaak

John_Gray wrote: »

To which 'passwords' do you refer?
To which 'update' do you refer?
Not more than 1% of your readers are psychic...

All passwords

fall update - the big one

debitcardmayhem

Let's try another tack then , which passwords stored where ? e.g. my passwords for web sites are stored in Firefox/Thunderbird. My network passwords for the router are stored in Windows give us a clue

wongataa

aardvaak wrote: »

OH's computer did the pointless microsoft fall update and now computer has lost it's passwords.

Does anyone know why and how to get them back?

This update is pointless as when my computer did it I can see no difference to before

What differences are there supposed to be?

I'd hardly call security updates pointless. Just because it looks the same doesn't mean it hasn't changed. You can easily find out all the changes with simple internet searches.

aardvaak

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Let's try another tack then , which passwords stored where ? e.g. my passwords for web sites are stored in Firefox/Thunderbird. My network passwords for the router are stored in Windows give us a clue

Games in particular

aardvaak

wongataa wrote: »

I'd hardly call security updates pointless. Just because it looks the same doesn't mean it hasn't changed. You can easily find out all the changes with simple internet searches.

This is not just a 'security updates' it is reinstalling the whole OS it is major and takes ages

lammy82

You need to be much more specific about what passwords you're talking about if anyone is going to be able to help you recover them.

wongataa

aardvaak wrote: »

This is not just a 'security updates' it is reinstalling the whole OS it is major and takes ages

Correct. Some of those updates mean a whole new OS. As stated before it is very easy to find out the changes if you are interested.

Frozen_up_north

Use a password manager, such as Keepass to keep a separate storage of passwords, ie on a USB stick... I updated 2 x laptops and 1 x desktop to the Win 10 Creators Edition from the earlier Win 10, no issues whatsoever. No loss of passwords in Firefox either.

aardvaak

Is the password manager stored in the cloud - ie is there a a risk it could be hacked?