That's probably best asked in a Vista newsgroup.
For XP, the following apply:
Save password setting not retained in Outlook or Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290684 http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_oe_passwords.htm
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"Milhouse Van Houten" <btvs@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I ask because I've noticed that they're being lost whenever I restart
> Vista SP1, a problem which never happened before several weeks ago.
> Not just in WLM, but some other programs too, such as Outlook 2007,
> Skype, and even usernames and passwords on forms in IE (part of its
> Autocomplete functionality). I suspect all these programs store in the
> same place/way, and that it's related to Vista's shell somehow, but I
> have no idea why this is happening.