Timeline for How can I reduce the time Windows takes to report a password is wrong?
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| Nov 29, 2023 at 20:40 | history | edited | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2020 at 22:00 | answer | added | VersBersch | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 21:30 | comment | added | Ponkadoodle | Windows 8 seems to have increased the lockout delay to the point where it's literally quicker to forcefully shutdown the computer and reboot after entering a wrong password, rather than wait for the timeout to pass. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 17:50 | vote | accept | einpoklum | ||
| Aug 25, 2013 at 18:16 | answer | added | Fiasco Labs | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 17:26 | comment | added | Fiasco Labs | You're very welcome! When you find the answer, you can post back and take credit for it. At least you're not hitting an unreasonable password failure lockout. Now that's really annoying. The best is 2 tries and a permanent lockout, with call needed to unlock. Then you know your IT department likes making life a pain. | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 15:28 | comment | added | einpoklum | @FiascoLabs: Thanks for lecturing me, I feel much more enlightened. Now I really like unconfigurable default 'security' features. | |
| Aug 24, 2013 at 4:58 | comment | added | Fiasco Labs | Sorry you don't like standard security features. Just don't enter bad passwords and you'll be ok. Keyboarding classes? Roboform like password safe? | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 21:21 | comment | added | einpoklum | Those answers are ridiculous. That's not 'quick'. If you can enter a password - even using some computerized keyboard replacement - once every second it would still take you a ridiculous amount of time to brute-force anything. Plus, the delay could be on the 3rd, or 5th, or 10th attempt onwards. ... but regardless of this, none of the answers there says "hard-coded"; plus we're dealing with a delay that's longer than what I experience on other machines. | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 20:48 | comment | added | Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 | Have you seen this (over on ServerFault) yet? Why windows 7, “wrong password ” takes long time? I think the answer to 'how to reduce it' is: "You can't, it's a security feature hard-coded into the OS". | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 20:40 | history | edited | nhinkle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 23, 2013 at 20:36 | history | asked | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |