Submission details
Logging on is very annoying if an error occurrs
if you try to log on to Vista and have a typo in your password, Vista still "trys" to log you on and then says "Unable to logon" and forces you to press OK to go back to the log on screen.
The same issue if you are not allowed to log on due to time restrictions.
Also this message is totally ugly, it should have a border around it or pop up as normal message box not directly on the blue background
Just do it like XP always did. Make a baloon pop up and not say "Logging on" or "Welcome" and shortly afterwars interrupt the user. Just do not start logging in and say "Password wrong" right away...
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Discussion (8 comments)
I do not understand. Those Vista prompts are similar with XP.
This bugs me as well. It takes 1 second to decide if you have the right password, but 10 seconds to decide if you have it wrong? There's something I'm missing here.
I prefer the Vista method, balloons shouldn't be used for that sort of thing.
The Vista method is better. I don't know why what vista does to determine password correctness, but it is fine as is.
It's operating by design. If you try to login with the wrong password it has to tell you something. if you are asking for a "figure it out as I type" type of functionality, that opens the login dialog to security vulnerabilities.
Actually I wanted to point out that it is just annoying that it says "Welcome" and THEN interrupts you by saying "your password is wrong".
It should do this instantly as XP does it.
If then there's a forced delay for security issues is up to the admin...
At least they could have drawn a nice Aero border around that window
I agree with not showing the Welcome text before serving up the error message. It makes no sense. Perhaps you should rephrase the problem to highlight that, because I think most people have downvoted it without checking out what the issue is.
Ensign Joe wrote on June 14, 2008, 3:40pm
Changed problem description.