Password as characters not blobs

Hi, I suffer from Parkinsons and find a great deal of the time I spend on my computer is consumed by retyping passwords I have miss-typed and because I cannot see what I am typing and my fingers do not always land where expected, inveriably means I get it wrong, after the fifth or sixth attempt it does become frustrating.
So my question is - has windows a switch or variable I can change which then displays all passwords as characters as you type them, instead of those horrible stars or blobs?

Welcome
I dont know how to do what you want, but you can set up auto complete; passwords will be remembered. To be used only if you are on a secure computer. You should be the sole user. Can be used with IE 8.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6750818_turn-autocomplete-internet-explorer-8.html

Hello & welcome.

This is a very touchy subject as you can imagine.

I would recommend Norton 360, it has a password remember facility. It will prompt you to remember passwords (Not all, but most) & then when you visit that page it will then input the stored password for you.

Unfortunately, if you have to re-install Norton 360 (After a system re-build or something), it does not recover the passwords. You are expected to remember them & insert them correctly at the appropriate site. when you do it will then remember them again (It will remember all the wrong ones & input them, until you get it right. Each time you change the password it will remember that one) So once you get it right, you are set.

This does come at a cost though.

Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360 - Norton Official US Store


Edit: -

I am wrong on the re-installing stuff!

Pleass see my next post regarding recovery of previously known passwords.

Welcome to the forum,

In addition to the above suggestions, have you tried a password manager? There are a few out there, that will remember your passwords for you, (like the one mentioned above)

Download RoboForm, Download RoboForm2Go

Downloads - KeePass

And I believe google toolbar also has a feature for that if you don't mind a toolbar.

I can't seem to find anything about your original question to show the characters.

I hope some of our suggestions will help you out.

Hi,

Just been on-line to the Norton support people & there is a facility to "backup" your stored passwords.

This just needs setting up after installaton. Therefore back-up passwords can be recovered. That is, provided they are on a differrent drive to the one lost!