Re: Prevent storing of LAN passwords

thanks for the information, that is a usefull hack with all the xp home
boxes out there, ppl seem to forget their passwords. at least this will
allow deletion of them or changing if the admin account can be accessed, any
hacks to clear the admin pw if it has been forgotten?

Jon
"ic3qu33nhaage" <ic3qu33nhaage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This feature only available to XP PRO
Removing your saved passwords from your computer is a very good idea.
because doing so will protect your accounts and also increase your
accounts
privacy. Removing the passwords in windows xp is tricky, because there is
no
easy way to access a list of all the accounts that have passwords stored
for
them within Control Panel or any other user interface element. Fortunately
there is a "HACK" that will do just that.

Hidden away in keymgr.dll system flie is and interface for viewing stored
user names and passwords. To use this inteface follow these steps.

1) click start, select Run
2) Type in rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr.
3) The stored windows User Names and Passwords will load, Showing you a
list
of all the accounts saved on your computer
4) To remove a saved password, select the account on the list and select
remove
5) click ok on the confirm screen and the account will be removed from the
list, erasing the stored password
6) repeat the previous steps for any other accounts that you want to
remove
7) When finished just click close
NOte*** you can also add user names and passwords by selecting ADD

"Ian" wrote:

I'm looking for a registry-key that will prevent users from permanently
storing passwords to network-shares in their profiles. It must still be
possible to store email and dial-up passwords.

Basically, I'm concerned about the risk of security being compromised if
a
roaming user does this to server-shares, and then the laptop gets
misappropriated.



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