The same can be said for the circumflex character. Those who wrote batch files in the last century should remember the difference…. I’ll let you figure out the % and %% differences. There are multiple lines per credential, and we want to select the correct line for manipulation. In case you are wondering about the pipe to findstr, this is due to the output returned by cmdkey.

What i have done so far to remove: I have checked and done the following: checked windows credential manager (the account is not listed anywhere), run rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr (the account is not listed), run cmdkey /list (the account is not listed), run.

Note that the syntax is changed slightly from the previous command.įor /F “tokens=1,2 delims= ” %%G in (‘cmdkey /list ^| findstr Target’) do cmdkey /delete %%H Windows has cached the credentials that were used to connect to the share. The below is a sample command which can be executed in a batch file. Now that we have some tool which can be used to manipulate the saved credentials, it can be easily automated. The below is a sample command which can be executed in a cmd prompt.įor /F “tokens=1,2 delims= ” %G in (‘cmdkey /list ^| findstr Target’) do cmdkey /delete %H The base cmdkey commands can be automated using some old skool batch commands.įOR can be used to loop through the credentials and then pass them to the delete command. While we will look at the deletion option in this post, the documentation can be consulted for all of the other available options.Ĭmdkey.exe /delete will remove the specified credential Windows has the cmdkey.exe utility which can be used to manage the contents of Credential Manager. Thankfully, there are some options… CmdKey To the Rescue This is per entry which is a lot of overhead. In order to remove the entry, the Remove From Vault option must be clicked. An example is shown below for an Windows 7 test machine. Worse still is that Modern Authentication will create multiple entries inside Credential Manager. There is no option to do a block select to delete multiple entries at once. One example of this is clearing out the contents on Window’s Credential Manager. Manually reverting machines back to the initial starting point for the next demo can be time consuming and error prone. With my customer facing role, there are lot of demonstrations to enterprise customers.

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