WHY IS MY MAC ASKING FOR A KEYCHAIN?!

I have not been so irritated in a long time, everytime i try to go online a small screen pops up and asks me for my "login" keychain password ... earlier today i had a problem going online so i called apple they helped me reset my password .... i had asked the lady what was a keychain she said dont worry bout it its nothing .... its obviously something if every 10 seconds i have to type it in ... the help menu on the mac tells me that pw for the keychain should be the same as my pw for my login ... well its not i keep getting it wrong ... now i cant unlock anything or download things because the pw is incorrect. I dont even know what to ask ... just tell me what to do about this please.

Keychain is an application that encrypts and stores passwords. When you login to your Mac the login password will unlock the other stored passwords so that you will Not have to type them all in every time. The reason it is asking for your password repeatedly is because the password that it has saved is incorrect.
There is more than one way to fix this problem but the easiest is probably to delete this file: "Users/Home/Library/Keychains/login.keychain" After deleting this file log out then login again.
George

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