Windows : Clear saved Windows networking passwords

February 27th, 2007 by Stephane Kattoor

If you sometimes access a network share and check that “remember password” box, then you might have wondered how to delete that password as well.

James Geurts gives us the trick

James Geurts’ Blog : Clear saved windows networking passwords

Clear saved windows networking passwords
From time to time, I need to clear or reset a saved password to a network share. When I connect to a remote computer and click the Remember Password checkbox, it gets stored somewhere… this command will help you manage those passwords:rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

This will popup a little application, with all those shares where you saved the password, and let you clear them one by one.

Thanks James :-)


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  1. » Active Directory : User account repeatedly locked for no reason ? « provided by Tech@Sakana Says:
    February 27th, 2007 at 21:26

    [...] (By the way, you can clear the saved network share password following the instructions in “Windows : Clear saved windows networking passwords“) [...]

  2. thomasvk Says:
    June 22nd, 2007 at 9:45

    Very nice find, thank you very much. This is just the information that you expect to be the first Google hit on a problem like this. :D

  3. rbd Says:
    August 19th, 2007 at 1:18

    great tip, thanks

  4. Stéphane Kattoor Says:
    August 19th, 2007 at 12:08

    thomasvk and rbd, you’re very welcome ! thanks for your visit !

  5. airtonix Says:
    September 1st, 2007 at 6:36

    way to go MICROFLOP

  6. js Says:
    March 22nd, 2008 at 0:39

    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

  7. Stéphane Kattoor Says:
    March 22nd, 2008 at 15:13

    js, you’re welcome !

    thanks for your visit, I’m glad it helped !

    Stéphane

  8. NotMe Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 0:30

    Just what I was looking for, thanks

  9. NotMe Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 0:31

    That was poorly phrased I mean it was exactly what I was looking for :)

  10. bry Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 17:32

    Thanks so much. This also works, by the way, for IE IWA when users are configured properly, are granted sufficient access in NTFS on the IIS server but still end up with a username & password challenge dialogue.

  11. Sam Omozojie Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 8:00

    That was a great solution. Thanks.

  12. Laurent Says:
    April 20th, 2009 at 15:38

    Thank you so much for this post ! I was nearly desperate because I couldn’t connect to a Web Server and it solved my problem !

  13. Paul Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 19:40

    Sorry to reopen a old thread, but I am looking for a script or batch file that can remove these saved passwords everytime a user logs on or off. Is this possible? Google has provided me with no answers. Thank you!

  14. DevilMan Says:
    May 22nd, 2010 at 11:11

    thank you for the tip,however,nothing happens when i type that into the run!

  15. DevilMan Says:
    May 22nd, 2010 at 11:13

    ok,got it now!!
    was a typo =|

  16. zazamontana Says:
    July 23rd, 2010 at 11:17

    Hello Devilman,

    Can you please post the script for deleting passwords?

    with kind regards,

    Zazamontana

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