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Prevent Internet Explorer 7 From Remembering Passwords

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
by Diana Huggins

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Internet Explorer can save your passwords for different Web pages so you do not have to re-enter them. However, if you share a computer with other users, such as family members, or you are generally concerned about security, you can configure Internet Explorer not to save your passwords.

You can accomplish this in Internet Explorer 7 using the steps listed below.

Open Internet Explorer.
Click Tools and select Internet Options.
Select the Content tab.
Click the Settings button under AutoComplete.
Clear the check box beside the User names and passwords on forms option.
Click OK.

Once this setting has been applied, you will be required to re-enter your password each time you visit a Web page that requires one.

[tags]Internet Explorer 7, IE 7, prevent password remember, Microsoft[/tags]

4 Comments

Vic

March 6th, 2007
at 5:59pm

Soooo helpful, thanks. Just had to google, click and the entire answer for what I was lookin for was right here and simplified.

Roger Sinel

May 4th, 2007
at 5:01am

But isn’t this setting inaktive by default. I mean if you look in Advanced tab och internet settings this setting isn’t ticked by default. I had this problem that IE7 wasn’t saving the proxy password. The logon screen just kept coming up until I ticked that box.

/Roger

Jenn

July 17th, 2007
at 3:01am

THANK YOU!!! Sooooo very helpful, direct and clear. I’ve been searching every where for how to do this and it took me a while to finally get here! Thanks a million.

DJ Holbrook

February 8th, 2008
at 2:31pm

Thanks so much. We were having trouble with the computers in the conference rooms remembering passwords for everyone’s account that logs in.
Excellent advice. Worked very well.

DjH