Re: Where does XP/IE store its remembered passwords? (Not autocomplete form passwords)
- From: "ralph sanchez" <Xrsanchez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:33:12 -0600
To answer my own question (in case someone is researching this issue in the
future), on my XPSP2 (w/IE7) system, these passwords are stored in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
Data\Microsoft\Credentials\userSID\Credentials
I don't know of a way to edit the contents of that file, but in my case it
was safe to delete it completely (when logged in as administrator).
"ralph sanchez" <XXXXrsanchez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%236G%23MJRJHHA.3552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Many web sites require users to login from a popup dialog box, and not on
the website's form itself. On these types of websites, you're given the
option to remember the password when you enter it for the first time. I'd
like to clear out some of these passwords from my system, but I'm having
trouble finding where they're stored. Back in the Win95 days, I remember
these types of passwords being stored in a PWL file. It's obviously a
much more thorough system now, but it's proven to be very difficult to
find out where the system is storing them. In particular, I inadvertently
saved a password to a Linksys WR54G router that I do not want cached on my
system.
I should point out that I'm NOT talking about Autocomplete passwords,
which is to say that going to Internet Options / Content / Autocomplete /
Clear Passwords doesn't clear the type of passwords that I'm talking
about.
Furthermore, going to Control Panel / User Accounts / Manage Passwords
only shows a partial list of the passwords on my system, which doesn't
include many of the ones that I'd like to delete. Naturally, the same
incomplete list shows when accessing the list via the User Accounts applet
or by going directly to it by executing "control keymgr.dll" or "control
userpasswords2" from the command line.
Does anyone out there know if there's another way to edit/modify/delete
these saved passwords?
--
rsanchez
www.texupport.net
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