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Windows 7 Password Vault

Oh boy is this a feature designed for lazy admins. When I’m not writing and keeping the site up to date I’m usually onsite working for clients. Often I’m required to have multiple emails accounts active when working with various partners.

Now this isn’t usually a problem except as many know you can’t have multiple exchange accounts open in outlook at the same time. This means that you need to create separate profiles for each Exchange account. This also means that you need to type in a password every time you change profiles. Being that retyping passwords can be a drag on productivity, (fat finger errors and typos) wouldn’t it be great if you could have Windows remember your different accounts associated with your already logged on user account?

In the control panel choose Users Accounts and Family Safety

Then click on Credentials Manager

You can now see credentials that you have already entered in for various sites. If you check “Save Username and Password” in the checkbox the information will be stored here.

Once a credential has been added and stored here it will automatically be supplied when you next access the resource in question. In my case each time I open Outlook and choose a different profile I will skip having to re-enter the password for the specific Exchange account.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your default Windows account should be secured with a strong password, and ideally it should also be secured with multifactor authentication.