Windows - Remove password used to connect to shared drives

Question

Good day all

I've been looking around and I can't find a solution for this.

Consider this:

• My IP - 10.0.0.4
• My External Harddrive is shared with letter F:

Thus running

\\10.0.0.4\F

will connect to that drive and show that which is shared. (this is done without having checked the remember user box, thus it will not remember the username and password)

After I have done that which I had to, I close the

"\10.0.0.30\F" Window

After which I run the connect to ^ command again, but I reconnect with no user/pass request

How do I remove this/show a user and pass popup?

What I have tried:

User Accounts>Manage Credentials> nothing of the sort there

cmd>net user, net account,etc. nothing

any other recommendations?

Answer 1

Windows - Remove password used to connect to shared drives

\10.0.0.4\F

will connect to that drive and show that which is shared. (this is done without having checked the remember user box, thus it will not remember the username and password)

After which I run the connect to ^ command again, but I reconnect with no user/pass request

How do I remove this/show a user and pass popup?

There may be a few things to check to delete a cached credential on Windows 7 actually so I'll list in the order you would want to try but #1 seems to work for me just fine when testing just as you explained; however, I noticed what appeared to be applicable credentials in the #2 and #3 below items as well.

1. From a command prompt type in NET USE \\10.0.0.4\F /DELETE and then press Enter

   • It seems there is a delay on this so you may need to wait a few minutes for it to become effective or at least when I tested it seemed to take a few minutes before the \\servername\sharename started prompting me again for username and password

2. From Start Run type in control /name Microsoft.CredentialManager and press Enter.

   • This is the same as Control Panel -> Credential Manager

3. From a command prompt type in C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr and then press Enter.

   • Select Edit to see the detail of each entry and Remove what you confirm needs removed.