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J.G.Harston Silver badge

Punctuation in passwords

Argh! to this. A particular laptop encrypting product assumes you have a USA keyboard, so if you blithely put " or # in your Windows password (eg Daughter#2) you have to use different keypresses at the startup logon with nothing to prompt you other than "username or password incorrect".

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