User name & Passwords saved after brandnew windows SSD installed..

chaparral · 29 Mar 2015 at 21:04

This has confused me a little..

I just finished fitting a brand new SSD and then installing w8.1 on it and it seems like all my user name & passwords for websites like this forum & photobucket have been saved somewhere as they auto fill in :confused:

Where my user name & passwords for websites saved by my Microsoft windows login account ? :confused:

Rensin · 29 Mar 2015 at 21:15

Sounds like you are using a Microsoft account rather than a local account so all your data ect will be backed up online. (Not sure if it backs up data from your browser)

Did you sign in your account when re-installing w8?

Edit

Link to explaining Microsoft account.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/microsoft-account-tutorial

chaparral · 29 Mar 2015 at 21:33

Rensin said:
Did you sign in your account when re-installing w8?

Yes....

So it looks like it also backs up the user names & passwords you have entered in the Internet Explorer browser..

bledd · 29 Mar 2015 at 21:44

Yup.

Chrome and Firefox can do this too.

Didn't realise IE did it, can't say I use IE much on mine.

W8 will sync certain settings amongst your W8 installs, like Desktop background etc