Tips & Tricks: How To Clear Your Windows Network Share Passwords

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I am pretty sure you’ve done this at some point in your professional life too, you checked the “Remember Password” checkbox when creating a network share.

ClearWindowsSharePassword

This, of course, saves you the hassle and the time to enter the password each time you accessed that network share, but what if your domain/network account password changes?

As it turns out, there is no user friendly navigation shortcut to the “Windows Key Manager” (or if there is, I could not find it). That being said, there is a handy Command you can run under a Command Prompt as follows:

rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

This command will launch the Windows Key Manager, where all your Windows Network Password and stored:

ClearWindowsSharePassword-KeyManager

Now you can clean up the network authentication details to your heart’s desire.

Comments

Néstor SänchezBoliviaNéstor Sänchez said:

Can't you use: Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager to reset credentials granularly?

AntonioChagouryUnited StatesAntonioChagoury said:

Very nice Nestor! This is basically a different UI/UX representation of the UI that the KRShowKeyMgr commands launches. Especially in Windows 7 this UI is very much improved.

Thanks for sharing... now I know another way ;)

ff14 gilLatviaff14 gil said:

Be?el jsem pres tento post delá nejaký výzkum pro mou kolej. Musím ríct, ?e zní jako velmi jasná osoba a doufám, ?e jednoho dne mohl psát stejne dobre jako vy. V?dycky jsem závidel lidem, ?e mu?e psát s vá?ní a opravdu hit bod domu.

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