Registry entry?

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There must be a place in the Registry where IE stores the usernames generated
by .htpasswd/.htacess ? I have one that will not go away. I have asked IE
to clear all passwords and forms and do not have the feature to keep them
turned on.

What I am looking for is the location in the registry where this thing is
kept. Anyone know?

Yukoner.
 
Thanks Don, but "been there done that" :-)

Don Varnau said:
Hi,
See if Protected Storage PassView from
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/pspv.html can find and delete it.

[Assuming Windows XP] Control Panel> User Accounts> [UserName]> Manage
network passwords. Anything there?

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Yukoner said:
There must be a place in the Registry where IE stores the usernames generated
by .htpasswd/.htacess ? I have one that will not go away. I have asked IE
to clear all passwords and forms and do not have the feature to keep them
turned on.

What I am looking for is the location in the registry where this thing is
kept. Anyone know?

Yukoner.
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Yukoner said:
There must be a place in the Registry where IE stores the usernames generated
by .htpasswd/.htacess ?
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I don't know what you mean by that?
Do you have an example site?

I have one that will not go away. I have asked IE
to clear all passwords and forms and do not have the feature to keep them
turned on.

What I am looking for is the location in the registry where this thing is
kept. Anyone know?
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Why do you assume that the location is in the registry?
(E.g. you made no reference to Cookies which is another
mechanism for making data persist. Then the values that you see
could be either encoded in the Cookies or returned as a result
of presenting one.)


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Hi Robert. an example of the pop-up would be like a client-only area on my
website

http://www.massage-yukon.com/clients/

I am making the assumption that it must be in the Registry because I have
cleaned every cookie out of the hard drive that I...and some cookie cleaner
software have been able to locate. I have the belief that it is stored on
one computer only as it doesn't appear when I go to this kind of popup from
any other computer.

Thanks for your input.

Yukoner
 
Yukoner said:
Hi Robert. an example of the pop-up would be like a client-only area on my
website

http://www.massage-yukon.com/clients/

I am making the assumption that it must be in the Registry because I have
cleaned every cookie out of the hard drive that I...and some cookie cleaner
software have been able to locate. I have the belief that it is stored on
one computer only as it doesn't appear when I go to this kind of popup from
any other computer.
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If PSPV doesn't show it it's not a normal userid/password pair.

RegMon might be able to show you them being extracted from somewhere
else in the Protected Storage branch but that's not likely to be information
you can use (unless perhaps it enables you to use the UI to change those values
to something else--e.g. being reminded of an old password might allow the user
to change it to a current PW, etc.)

Otherwise you may just have to rebuild that user's profile.

Thanks for your input.
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Good luck

Robert
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Thanks Robert. Is there a simple way to rebuild the profile without losing
data?

Yukoner
 
Yukoner said:
Thanks Robert. Is there a simple way to rebuild the profile without losing
data?
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I'm only aware of some sledge hammers that are documented.

<title>KB811151 - How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile</title>

Note in particular this step, which tells you what to exclude
when copying files from the old %USERPROFILE%

<extract>
4. Press and hold down the CTRL key while you click each file
and subfolder in this folder, except the following files:
Ntuser.dat
Ntuser.dat.log
Ntuser.ini
</extract>


Poof! There goes all the user's UI customizations... ; }

You could try getting a more refined suggestion from an XP NG.


Good luck

Robert
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