Windows – Credential Manager Issue in Windows 7

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I want to use credential manager to store the password of my machine and some websites. I have tried to add Credential for website in Generic credential section as below :

Internet or network address : www.gmail.com

User name : My user name without @gmail.com

Password : my gmail password for that account

But it is not working when I open gmail using Internet Explorer.

I have gone through below links but it didn't working :
http://www.carltheprof.com/WhatistheCredentialManager.html

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/automatic-logon-to-websites-not-working-using/a098814a-d87c-4bf2-bb3e-a4c136bf04f0

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/credential-manager-working-windows

Please suggest if I am doing anything wrong. Moreover, Can we use that password in other browser as well?

Best Answer

Generic Credentials are for third-party applications that manage authorization separate from the credentials of the currently logged-on user. Almost any credentials that adhere to the Microsoft standard can be stored in the Generic Credentials category.

For more information see the article Manage network logon credentials in Microsoft Windows.

However, the Credential Manager is not used to store all types of credentials used for connecting to Web sites. For example, most Web site credentials in Internet Explorer are rather handled by the AutoComplete feature.

For Web logons, such as for Gmail, you should use a tool that is better adapted to the task. The free LastPass utility is one of the best password managers for storing logons as well as automatically doing auto-logon to websites. It is also cross-browser. See this article for more info.

Related Solutions

Windows – How to change password for multiple credentials in Windows Vault (a.k.a. Credential Manager)

For completeness, you can manage credentials at the command line or in batch script with cmdkey.exe (located in %windir%\system32).

For example, to add (or update) the credentials on server.domain.tld:

cmdkey.exe /add:server.domain.tld /user:username /pass:password

or for the entire domain:

cmdkey.exe /add:*.domain.tld /user:username /pass:password

/user can also take domain\username or username@domain

Instead of opening Windows Vault you could run a simple batch script that would prompt you for your new password:

set /p pw=Enter your new password:
cmdkey.exe /add:*companydomain.tld /user:myusername /pass:%pw%

Windows 7 – Command-Line to Remove All Saved Passwords in Credential Manager

for that, you sure need to create a batch file. maybe follwing link will help you on this

This is the similar post. Try it out.

The script

cmdkey.exe /list > "%TEMP%\List.txt"
findstr.exe Target "%TEMP%\List.txt" > "%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt"
FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%G IN (%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt) DO cmdkey.exe /delete:%%H
del "%TEMP%\List.txt" /s /f /q
del "%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt" /s /f /q