Back to PC gaming...Steam log-in Issues.

[Lachrymal]

So, it's been so long since I used Steam that I had easily forgotten my log-in. On top of that I think my Yahoo email has been hacked months and months ago. I can't answer security questions to get a new password on steam if I can't log into Yahoo for the email. I made my Yahoo email YEARS ago so I don't recall the answers to the security questions on there. I have spoken with Yahoo support and gave them many possible answers to the security questions and they weren't legit. 

 

Has anyone had issues with Steam or Yahoo like this and was it resolved? I can't play my games until I get logged into Steam! Makes me sad.

[Vitalius]

That must suck.

This is why I always keep a copy of my passwords in an encrypted, hidden file on my computer. And I use the same one in varying forms everywhere. 

I also have multiple emails with each one being a recovery email for another email. So if I forget one password, I can use another one I remember at another email to fix it.

I can't help you with your issue since it's not one that can be helped, I think, but these are ways to prevent it from happening again.

[SirRoderick]

Yeah this is why you use a number of standard passwords and questions. You WILL forget them and there's no going back

 

Sorry to hear it, but seems like that account is lost.

[Lachrymal]

That must suck.

This is why I always keep a copy of my passwords in an encrypted, hidden file on my computer. And I use the same one in varying forms everywhere. 

I also have multiple emails with each one being a recovery email for another email. So if I forget one password, I can use another one I remember at another email to fix it.

I can't help you with your issue since it's not one that can be helped, I think, but these are ways to prevent it from happening again.

 

Ha, yeah my recovery email for Yahoo is a closed AOL email from even further back. How do you encrypt and hide files?

[Vitalius]

Ha, yeah my recovery email for Yahoo is a closed AOL email from even further back. How do you encrypt and hide files?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/encrypt-decrypt-folder-file#1TC=windows-7

 

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/hide-hidden-files-windows-7.htm

[Lachrymal]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/encrypt-decrypt-folder-file#1TC=windows-7

 

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/hide-hidden-files-windows-7.htm

 

Nice. I will definitely do that.

 

I contacted Yahoo another time and left as many outrageous possible security question answers as I could this time. I want to be mad at them for this, but in the end this was all my fault. I guess I will have to buy more games.

 

Physical copies are so underrated. 

[Vitalius]

Physical copies are so underrated. 

Agreed. 

[Lachrymal]

Ha! I recalled that my first sign up to Steam was cached on my other SSD that I had recently replaced in my laptop. Reinstalled the old SDD, Log-in appeared in the ID User field ready for me to click enter, installed the new SSD back in, filled in the correct fields and IM IN!

 

Praise the gods for SSDs!

 

@Vitalius

@SirRoderick

[Vitalius]

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[SirRoderick]

Ha! I recalled that my first sign up to Steam was cached on my other SSD that I had recently replaced in my laptop. Reinstalled the old SDD, Log-in appeared in the ID User field ready for me to click enter, installed the new SSD back in, filled in the correct fields and IM IN!

 

Praise the gods for SSDs!

 

@Vitalius

@SirRoderick

 

Right, now make 5000 backups