A couple of useful tools for managing stored credentials in Windows Vista/7

While messing around with a problem with cached IE credntials today, I came across these Windows user management tools.

(put the commands into the "Run" box in the start menu)

Stored usernames and passwords:

Command: rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

- in this tool you can see commonly stored credentials for websites, servers and programs. Some interesting things in here. TBH, not entirely sure what these are used for!
- this is also useful if you want to transfer all your credentials over to another computer.

User Accounts

Command: control userpasswords2
- this is a simplified version of the usual user manager
- under Advanced -> Passwords, you can get to the stored usernames tool mentioned above

Regular user manager
Command: lusrmgr

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