Username and Password

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[NWReader]

I see, Vicki. MBR stands for Master Boot Record, in your case I think you need to use another computer to download a tool and burn it into a CD, then you may use it to fix your MBR.

For details, pls. read http://forums.comodo.com/help-ctm/how-to-restore-mbr-if-you-cant-boot-withwithout-ctm-t58885.0.html

                                                                          Good luck

p.s. forgot to ask, Did any other error messages come up other than the "username and password" thing ? Also, try username "Administrator" with blank password first, then with your password and see what happens.

You are so sweet to help an idiot like me.  I finally resolved the problem by rebooting my system and hitting "Home" right away.  It brought up the CTM login screen and I typed in "Administrator" and the password I knew I selected and it worked!!! 

I have now disabled access control under "User Settings" so it won't require a login again.  Since I am the only one using this computer, I really don't need that security.  I'm not sure why the above steps didn't work before the reboot, but I thank the good lord the problem has been fixed.  I was just afraid CTM would keep taking "snapshots" and then my disk would fill up because I hadn't set any options to delete any of them EVER. 

Thanks, again, for your wonderful advice, james321888.  I have learned a valuable lesson here.  I would kind of like to uninstall the software after this scare, but after reading some of the problems being caused with the MBR by doing this, I think I'll leave well enough alone.

Now, would it still be worth my while to create a CD of the MBR now that CTM is installed, or am I too late to do this?

[james321888]

Vicki, it's good to see a frustrated person smiles again.  It's up to you when to create that MBR rescue CD, maybe you should just relax yourself a bit after those frustrating moments.  : )

The way I set CTM to work is to take one auto-snapshot daily, and set it to delete unlocked snapshots more than 8 days old (and auto-compact after deleting 6 snaps), in addition I would manually lock up 1 snapshot weekly and maintain it for about eight weeks, so at any moment my total # of snapshots would be below 20.                                                                                                                                  James                                                                                                                                                   

                                                                       

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Hi, just joined to post this.

Today for the first time, AFAIK I was prompted by CTM for a username and password. I never set it up with a username and password as far as I remember. I used CTM a couple of months ago to restore my machine to an earlier time and I wasn't asked for a username and password at that time. I keep careful notes of such things.

Fortunately, I stumbled upon this thread and the UserID 'Administrator' combined with my normal Windows login password did the trick.

Now I'm very nervous and I'll be removing CTM. This unexpected turn of events worries me that I may wind up locked out of my machine and unable to get back in short of extreme measures. Not fun....

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[james321888]

Those users who encounter "username and password" problems, pls. state the CTM version that's being used. ( Could be provided afterwards, for the sake of information. Version info. shown by pointing your mouse to the CTM installation file or CTM's sub-folder in it's program file : C:\Program Files\COMODO\Time Machine )

[NWReader]

Hi, just joined to post this.

Today for the first time, AFAIK I was prompted by CTM for a username and password. I never set it up with a username and password as far as I remember. I used CTM a couple of months ago to restore my machine to an earlier time and I wasn't asked for a username and password at that time. I keep careful notes of such things.

Fortunately, I stumbled upon this thread and the UserID 'Administrator' combined with my normal Windows login password did the trick.

Now I'm very nervous and I'll be removing CTM. This unexpected turn of events worries me that I may wind up locked out of my machine and unable to get back in short of extreme measures. Not fun....

I would advise you to read up on the "uninstalling" problems people are having with CTM.  I'm not sure why it should matter what version of CTM is being used if they all have the "User Access" feature in them.  Yes, it is very scary to not be able to log into a program you know is taking snapshots that will continue to fill you disc drive until it is full. 

Thanks to james321888, I have set my program to only take one snapshot daily and to remove them after 5 days.  I would really like to get this software off of my system, though, but it scares me that it could crash my system like it did to other people.  I do have boot disks that I made about 3 weeks ago and I'm assuming the MBR will be on there.  Still, no program should crash your system just because you want to install it.

[james321888]

Dear Vicki, after seeing your (and others) roller-coaster rides with CTM I do understand and sympathize with you !

Despite some people run into serious problems with CTM, there are also lots of others who use versions as old as 2.6 and it works fine for them. Different versions ARE indeed different ( though having the same features ), otherwise there's no sense to have New/Update versions !

Since for obvious reasons you have lost confidence in CTM, I would also suggest you to uninstall it ! Before you uninstall make sure your OS runs well at present state and no CTM error messages appear, delete most of your snapshots and compact them, then at bootup console ( Press "Home" at bootup ) take a most current snapshot and uninstall to IT.

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