Trouble logging in?

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Alisdair

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Trouble logging in?
« on: October 08, 2011, 05:31:40 PM »
If you have not yet registered, you don't need to log in at all. When you enter the forum, pay no attention to the "Welcome guest" message. Just go straight to the part of the forum you want to see.
If you have registered, you should only have to log in with your user name and password the first time you revisit the forum  - unless later on you log in from a new computer.
When you enter the forum at www.mgsforum.org/smf/index.php and you see the "Welcome guest" message, put your user name in the user name box, your password in the password box, and then (important) leave the third box on its default "Forever" setting; then click the Log In button. When you finish looking at the forum, just exit the programme without clicking the Log Out button.
Then, next time you go to the forum, you won't need to log in at all.
If you have forgotten your password, when you put the wrong one in and you get the message that it is incorrect, there will be a small blue message at the bottom "Forgot your password?" Click on that, and you will be asked the question that you put into your Profile when you joined originally, that only you knew the answer to. Give the right answer, and your password will be emailed to you automatically.
If you have forgotten your user name, please get in touch with one of the moderators, and we'll sort it out.
« Last Edit: October 30, 2011, 08:22:21 AM by Alisdair »
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Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society

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Fleur Pavlidis

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Re: Trouble logging in?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2011, 06:01:11 PM »
How to get to the Forum very easily.
Open the Forum Homepage.
Click File at the top left.
Click Save As
Chose Desktop from the list on the left.
Click Save
Find the icon on your desktop.
Drag it down to the bottom of the screen next to the Microsoft logo.
Now each time you want to open the Forum you only have to click on this icon.
MGS member, Greece. I garden in Attica, Greece and Mt Goulinas (450m) Central Greece