Could someone please tell me how to delete passwords to protected websites that I have saved? This does not refer to autcomplete, but rather passwords and id's for protected sites. I am giving my computer away and would like to delete all my saved passwords. Thank you in advance

Don

"DJ" <jonesd36(deletethis)@aol.com> wrote in message news:1C47E0E8-3BD5-4DC3-A471-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Could someone please tell me how to delete passwords to protected websites that I have saved? This does not refer to autcomplete,
but rather passwords and id's for protected sites. I am giving my computer away and would like to delete all my saved passwords.
Thank you in advance.
>
> Don

If you're giving away your PC to someone else, you should completely wipe
all data from your hard drive with a utility designed for that purpose, then re-format
and re-install the operating system. Anything less is asking for big trouble; even just
re-formatting isn't safe.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110012,00.asp

I am just giving it to a family memeber, so I don't want to do complete removal.

Don,
I'm not sure I understand. When you go to one of these login pages, if you
type the first letter or two of the username, does the username appear in
the drop-down autocomplete list?

Don
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"DJ" <jonesd36(deletethis)@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Could someone please tell me how to delete passwords to protected websites
that I have saved? This does not refer to autcomplete, but rather passwords
and id's for protected sites. I am giving my computer away and would like
to delete all my saved passwords. Thank you in advance.
>
> Don

Thank you for your reply. Over the past few years I have needed to gain access to websites that are protected and require a password and id. To save time, I have told IE (or maybe XP) to sve my information, so that I do not have to reenter it each time. Unfortunately, I do not remeber them all and would like to delete them. I know they are stored by IE somewhere, but i'm not sure the file name.

Thank you,

Don

OK. I thought that maybe you had cleared them from Tools> Internet Options>
Content> Autocomplete, but they wouldn't clear. Will they clear from there?

Don

"Don" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you for your reply. Over the past few years I have needed to gain
access to websites that are protected and require a password and id. To
save time, I have told IE (or maybe XP) to sve my information, so that I do
not have to reenter it each time. Unfortunately, I do not remeber them all
and would like to delete them. I know they are stored by IE somewhere, but
i'm not sure the file name.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Don

Nope. I dl a program that can find them, but it costs $25 to be able to delete them. It seems to me that there should be a way to delete them myself

Thanks

Don

Don,
Sorry for the delay...

With no programs open,
Run REGEDIT and make your way to this key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms\SPW]
Export that key (Registry> Export- just in case you wish to undo the
change) then delete it- just the SPW key.
Restart the computer.
If that registry key was damaged, you should be able to clear passwords the
usual way next time.

Don
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"Don" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Nope. I dl a program that can find them, but it costs $25 to be able to
delete them. It seems to me that there should be a way to delete them
myself.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don