Remove saved password

I would like to remove some saved passwords. Specifically passwords for mapped
drives on a network. I mapped some folders on a network drive to the Win Me
machine and selected "remember password". But now I'd like to be forced to enter
the user name and password to access those folders. The folders are password
protected. Because I selected "remember password" upon accessing each folder on
the network drive I am not prompted for the password.
The network drive is a hard drive plugged into the network that is used for
backups and my thought is that if spyware or a virus attacked my Win Me machine
it would have access to the backup drive.

Hi,
I don't know where that password is stored- probably in the registry.

This *might* work to restore the password prompt...
Internet Options Security Internet Zone Custom Level User
Authentication Prompt for Username and Password.

You may also need to set that for Intranet Zone.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"DanR" dan[at]my-olddeja.com wrote in message
...
I would like to remove some saved passwords. Specifically passwords for
mapped
drives on a network. I mapped some folders on a network drive to the Win
Me
machine and selected "remember password". But now I'd like to be forced to
enter
the user name and password to access those folders. The folders are
password
protected. Because I selected "remember password" upon accessing each
folder on
the network drive I am not prompted for the password.
The network drive is a hard drive plugged into the network that is used
for
backups and my thought is that if spyware or a virus attacked my Win Me
machine
it would have access to the backup drive.

Unfortunately your tip didn't work. After a lot of Goggling I found references
to Microsoft password editor. This worked and removed the cached passwords. I
spent hours experimenting before I discovered this program and the only other
way I could remove the saved passwords was to change them. Then the enter
password prompt appeared and I then had the choice of NOT saving the passwords.
Another frustrating thing about password caching is that "Save this password in
your password list" is checked by default. That means if you type the password
in and press enter you have "saved" the password. Of course you can uncheck it
EVERY TIME but what a pain. I found registry tweak to completely remove the
option to save passwords but couldn't find any way to change the default checked
to unchecked.
The "password editor" (pwledit.exe) is on the Win98 CD but not on the WinME cd.
I tried to install it by "add windows components" and browsing to it on the
Win98 CD. It acted as though it installed the program but didn't. So I just
copied it from the 98 cd to my WinME drive and it seems to work fine. I've
"saved" the password again just to see if the editor would remove it and it did.
I don't know if this works for WinXP.


Don Varnau wrote:
Hi,
I don't know where that password is stored- probably in the registry.

This *might* work to restore the password prompt...
Internet Options Security Internet Zone Custom Level User
Authentication Prompt for Username and Password.

You may also need to set that for Intranet Zone.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"DanR" dan[at]my-olddeja.com wrote in message
...
I would like to remove some saved passwords. Specifically passwords for
mapped drives on a network. I mapped some folders on a network drive to the
Win Me machine and selected "remember password". But now I'd like to be
forced to enter the user name and password to access those folders. The
folders are password protected. Because I selected "remember password" upon
accessing each folder on the network drive I am not prompted for the
password.
The network drive is a hard drive plugged into the network that is used for
backups and my thought is that if spyware or a virus attacked my Win Me
machine it would have access to the backup drive.