Disabling change from Update 832894 - name:password in URL

[Michael Raz]

I've been trying to disable the new default behaviour for handling username and password in a url as described in the security update. Seems easy - create two entries for ieexplore.exe and explore.exe under a new key and st values to 0 - no luck!
Has anyone else tried this and been successful?

Thanks.




From http://support.microsoft.com/?id=834489 :

How to disable the new default behavior for handling user information in HTTP or HTTPS URLs
To disable the new default behavior in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, create iexplore.exe and explorer.exe DWORD values in one of the following registry keys and set their value data to 0:

For all users:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE
For the current user only:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

 

[Gregory]

Nope. Didn't work for me either. I didn't even have reg
keys that are mentioned. I tried creating them and - also
no luck at all...
Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
I've been trying to disable the new default behaviour for

handling username and password in a url as described in
the security update. Seems easy - create two entries for
ieexplore.exe and explore.exe under a new key and st
values to 0 - no luck!
Has anyone else tried this and been successful?

 

[Guest]

What does this mean?
create iexplore.exe and explorer.exe DWORD values in one
of the following registry keys and set their value data to
0


And how do I do it

-----Original Message-----
I've been trying to disable the new default behaviour for

handling username and password in a url as described in
the security update. Seems easy - create two entries for
ieexplore.exe and explore.exe under a new key and st
values to 0 - no luck!

Has anyone else tried this and been successful?

Thanks.




From http://support.microsoft.com/?id=834489 :

How to disable the new default behavior for handling user

information in HTTP or HTTPS URLs

To disable the new default behavior in Windows Explorer

and Internet Explorer, create iexplore.exe and
explorer.exe DWORD values in one of the following registry
keys and set their value data to 0:

 

[Martin]

It means :
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

Locate the following keys
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWOR
D_DISABLE]

and set the following data into them.

"explorer.exe"=dword:00000000
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000

Make sure that you export any existing keys that you change before making
this change, or at least ensure you can roll back either by a Restore point
or a SCANREG/RESTORE.

Hope this helps,
Martin

 

[Skip]

It means :
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

Locate the following keys
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWOR
D_DISABLE]

and set the following data into them.

"explorer.exe"=dword:00000000
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000

Martin,

Your explanation helped me. I needed the new setting because after
downloading the IE security update, some of my scripts stopped
working.

I first tried to create the DWORDs with " marks around iexplore.exe,
but found that it only worked with the name and no " marks.

Thanks,
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