I got a an email from Ivan at www.cybexmag.com in response to this article.

Hi Steve,

This key holds all the FTP accounts used if you accessed an FTP via Internet Explorer.

I decided to check it out, and sure enough…if you backup Auto-Complete as I described in the previous article:

Those two FTP accounts you see in the screen shot *will* show up, but the username and password information will be missing. For example, if I visit my account, at IntelliAdmin…it is missing the username field. If I had told IE to save it, the password would have been missing too.

After I included the key Ivan mentioned above, the account usernames and passwords were remembered.

It is another item you can add to your toolbox when moving a user to a new machine.

Last week, Colin at Free PC Security gave me the Community Blogger Award. This prize was recently created by Cellobella at Red Sultana, to celebrate those that reach out to the wider community.

I am honoured to receive this award, because it comes from fellow bloggers, and because the ethos of the award is for winners to pass on the award to worthy recipients. As such, I am also honoured to present the award to the following three bloggers:

Etienne Teo - for good advice for bloggers wishing to monetise and develop their sites.

Mark R. Stoneman - for efforts in promoting the historian blogger community.

Shirley Gibson - for the variety of blogs she writes, and for blogging community work.

The coach talks about how he loves his job of getting devices ready for Vista certification.

Coach addresses his mouse, and talks about potential in his quest to get it certified for Vista.

If you encrypt data on your computer, you need a way to recover that data in case something happens to the encryption key. If your encryption key is lost or damaged and you don’t have a way to recover your data, the data is lost. You will also lose data if you store your encryption key on a smart card and the smart card is damaged or lost. To make sure you can always access your encrypted data, you should back up your encryption certificate and key. If more than one person uses your computer, or if you use a smart card to encrypt files, you should create a file recovery certificate. For more information, see Create a recovery certificate for encrypted files.
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If you have an Internet connection, Windows XP can automatically synchronize your clock to keep it accurate. Here’s how:

1. Right-click your clock, and then click Adjust Date/Time.

2. Click the Internet Time tab. Click the Server down arrow, and then click time.nist.gov. Notice that Internet time synchronization is enabled by default.

3. Click Update Now. Windows XP contacts the Internet time server and sets your clock. Click OK.

Now, your PC is connected to the Internet time server.

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