h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How do I find out or change my password. At the moment in preference it's just an irritatingly smug line of ****. I've tried to change it to soething I will remember and it seems to come back the same. Help?

Click on 'preference' and enter your new password (deleting the old), then enter it again in the box below. Click update details, and it will be done. The number of xxxxxxx don't necessarily represent the number of letters in your password (I think). How's that?

Welcome to the Guide. Cute name.

Don't worry the number of stars is fixed, so you have changed your password. See http://www.h2g2.com/F615?thread=82817&latest=1 The only way to check your password works is to delete the h2g2 cookie by using the logout button and then log back in using your password. A word of caution before doing this if you get the password wrong you will only be able to get back into h2g2 via the email you were sent when you joined. So if possible have your original email to hand incase you get the password wrong. PS the above is not meant to worry you I use a number of differnt computers and I've never had a problem with the password system (So Far!), but its better to be safe than sorry.

Of course, if h2g2 gets taken over by someone else... say a large corporation like the BBC... it all becomes irrelevant anyway.

Oh dear Bald Bloke... looks like we lost another one.

Shame... he had a very interesting instrument...

Ah-ha! I see someone else picks on really old conversations just for the fun of it

Or has possibly just braved the terror of the BBC account conversion process, and reactivated her account.

Nice to meet you.

What a lovely name Venus

Thankyou.

Yours is very... long.

Being dyslexic I needed a name I would remember (for signing in) so I called myself Trillion - but people kept confusing me with Trillian's Child, so it became The Entity Formerly Known As Trillian...which someone shortened...

OIC

Nice to meet you Venus. I managed to screw up the registration period twice in an afternoon after clearing out my cookie store. So there are two others of me out there somewhere

It is as well that the registration process has changed, or I could never have reactivated my account. The e-mail address it used to be on is long since deceased.

Although in many ways it would not have mattered too much if I had needed to create a new account, as all of my 'interesting' old conversations have disappeared.

Try not to bump into them. I gather that normally presages death

That was an answer to Grey.

You could start some new interesting ones VIC

Always best not to bump into

Start some new interesting ones is what I hope to do.

Passwords are a nuisance to remember. h2g2 made me select another password a while ago, dont know why, but my old password still works on the bbc message boards.

h2g2 and the messageboards use two different systems.

That was a blast from the past.