Windows 8 makes managing passwords in Internet Explorer 10 easy. It does so by automatically letting you store and retrieve passwords for all the websites and applications you use – and that too in a secure manner. If you wish to manage your passwords in Internet Explorer 10, you can do so as follows:
Manage passwords in Internet Explorer 10
Open Internet Explorer > Internet Options > Content tab. Under AutoComplete, click on Settings.
In the AutoComplete Settings box, click on Manage Passwords.
This will open the Windows Credential Manager. The Credential Manager helps you store credentials such as user names and passwords in a single, convenient place. These credentials, which you use to sign in to websites or other PCs on a network, are saved in special folders on your PC. Windows can securely access these folders and use your stored credentials to automatically sign you in to websites or other PCs.
Web Credentials in Credential Manager
In Windows 8, the Credential Manager stores one more type of credential, called as the Web Credentials, apart from the Windows Credentials, called Windows Vault in Windows 7. Web Credentials helps Internet Explorer 10 to store your web passwords securely. The Credential Manager manages your credentials using the Credential Locker service, which creates and maintains a secure storage area on the local computer that stores user names and passwords the user saved from websites and Windows 8 apps.
In the Credential Manager, under Web Credentials, you will be able to see all your stored web passwords. To see the passwords behind the asterisks mark, you can click on Show. Windows will ask you for your login password to verify your identity.
Once done, the password will be exposed. If you want, you can also remove the stored password/s by clicking on Remove.
While you can add, backup, restore Windows Credentials, there is no way to add or edit Web Credentials.
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