Re: How do I delete saved passwords in XP

From: Danny W (danielwilkins11_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:10:25 -0000

Users & Passwords in control panel. Then, if you use the new, blue users
control panel, select "Manage Stored Passwords" fromt the left-hand pane and
delete any you don't want any more. If you use the classic users control
panel, "Manage Passwords" will be under the "Advanced" tab.

Danny W

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:199b01c3fbde$acbaa350$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I finally managed to get the issue resolved through help
> received from another posting.
>
> MY problem was that WIndows was automatically logging me
> on to Intranet sites using saved user credentials.
>
> This setting can be altered from IE--> Tools-->Internet
> Options-->Security-->Local Intranet. There I had to
> Custom Configure the settings to prompt for a username
> and password when logging onto Intranet sites.
>
> But this solution came too late in the day for me, as by
> then I had already started the process of rebuilding the
> users windows profile.
>
> I hope this helps someone else in the same predicament.
>
> Regards
>
> CP
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hi
>>
>>This info may be useful to me also, but I'm wondering,
> does this only
>>eliminate the "Common Name" passwords? I have my
> Internet log-on set up to
>>automatically fill in my log-on name and password, and I
> don't want to lose
>>that. Unfortunately (stupidly), I neglected to write
> down my password when I
>>initially set it up this way, and I don't know what I
> ended up needing to
>>use for a password.
>>Thanx.
>>"Ben Dover" <ssanstit@cox.net> wrote in message
>>news:0e0e01c3fb36$08da35f0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>>> From control panel go to "Internet Options."
>>> Select the "Content" button.
>>> Then click the "Auto Complete" button.
>>>
>>> In there you can clear all stored passwords as well as
>>> stored information that is used to automatically fill
> out
>>> various forms during your browseing.
>>>
>>> Good luck to you!
>>>
>>> Ben Dover
>>>
>>> >-----Original Message-----
>>> >Hi,
>>> >
>>> >I am attempting to log onto an internal website
> using a
>>> >new set of logon credentials.
>>> >
>>> >However IE 6.0, keeps logging me on with the existing
>>> >saved set of username and password. I have cleared the
>>> >stored passwords from the Content tab under Tools -->
>>> >Internet Options --> Auto Complete, to no avail.
>>> >
>>> >I have even deleted the entire IE sub key in the
>>> registry
>>> >under HKEY_CURRENT_USER-->SOFTWARE-->Microsoft.
>>> >
>>> >I find that the only way I can get IE to prompt me
> for a
>>> >username and password is by deleting the windows user
>>> >profile under -->Documents & Settings and restarting
> the
>>> >machine.
>>> >
>>> >Can anyone show me an easier way of doing this.
>>> >
>>> >Regards
>>> >
>>> >CP
>>> >
>>> >.
>>> >
>>
>>
>>.
>>