Thanks. I actually understand that part. What I can't figure out is why, if I am the only person using this machine, would it occasionally start up without asking for a network password? Not suddenly stop asking forever after, just sometimes it doesn't ask and most of the time it does. I was (perhaps foolishly) under the impression that computers are so useful, in part, because they always spit out the same answer to the same question. There is no randomness in the computer universe, it's all controlled by finite numbers. Thus when you power up a computer, if you have not added a program, file or hardware, it will always act the same upon startup. This silly box occasionally fails to request a password. Now, in the larger scheme of things it doesn't matter a rat's behind, except I wish it would never ask for a password and so far doing what you suggest has failed to eliminate the requester. But I really want to understand what determines the inconsistant nature of the startup? Assuming that no one has changed things after I turn it off and go to bed, why would it boot up in a unique manner the next day? I've actually had people suggest my wife is trying to drive me crazy, but anyone who knows me knows it's way too late for that, and I don't think she'd bother. Still, it wrinkles my frontal lobe that a logic machine would act in an illogical manner.
Is there a program that would keep a list of what is happening inside the machine upon powering up and thus enable me to compare daily startups? Maybe even with some clue as to why it is doing those things? That might give me the answer I seek.
Yeah, I know it doesn't matter and it won't change the way it acts, but except for the growing belief that computers are living beings with wicked senses of humor I have no clue as to why what should be a very fast, very complex abacus turns out to be more of a dice roller with infinite sides to the dice.
