as installed on my stick initially, it works fine after putting in my account details, and remembers them at each login.
if i move the stick to another computer (point: portable!), it does not: remembers account name, but not the password.
question: where does sPortable store the password, and why is this not moved along? any workaround?
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If I recall correctly, I heard that Skype was switched to encrypt the password in the registry based on your current user account. So, even though we pull it out when you close sPortable and put it in when you launch it, it won't work when you move PCs or switch Windows logins. This is the reason Google Chrome logins are not portable (and you lose them all in a non-synced backup of local Google Chrome settings).
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Hi John,
Does it all to the current Classic Skype in the suite or the one in beta phase?
We're only discussing the official sPortable. Anything about the now non-working test of new Skype would be within its thread. I have no idea how new Skype stores logins.
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am quite sure it was not like this a while ago - SKYPE again tries to fool us. it was quite portable untill a couple of updates ago, not sure when, but 100% sure it worked early this year.
anybody any idea where in the registry the key is stored, and how to move it from computer to computer?
do i detect a general move against portability? or am i just paranoid?
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The key is already backed up and preserved. But it is encrypted to a specific user account and will thus reset when decrypted on a different user account. Chrome works the same way. It's portable, but the password is locked to a given PC.
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so, basically no go. and no chance for a workaround. and, basically NOT portable as it should be.
sad. and no luck either with ''the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!''.
greetings - heinz -
It keeps all your settings, logs, etc as you move between PCs. So, it's portable, even if the specific ability to remember your username/password that you'd prefer is no longer there. Please keep the rest of the snark out of the forums.
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john, i wasnt snarking. and certainly not at you. just dont like the fact that real portability, as it was understood for years, seems to be boykotted by the big powers.