Open the command line by pressing Windows R, typing cmd and hitting enter. Now use the command control keymgr.dll to open a window called Stored User Names and Passwords that lists all stored usernames and passwords of the currently active profile. You can use the command Control Userpasswords2 to open the User Accounts configuration instead. If you click on Advanced in that tab you can access the same menu by clicking on the Manage Passwords button.

You may then mark any entry in the list and either remove it or display its properties for additional information. If you remove an entry you have to enter the username and password again during the next login to the service.

Moreover, if you don’t use a very unique username, most likely you’ll sooner or later find out that your username has already been taken by someone else on a particular website. That forces you to choose another one and remember it or write it down. A good solution for storing such username password combinations for various services is KeePass but it doesn’t resolve the problem of multiple logins. The solution to this might be OpenID.

You simply create your openID account at one of openID providers (e.g. myOpenID ) and after that you can sign in to all OpenID enabled sites without having to re-enter login details on all of them.

You just provide your unique ID (username.openidprovider.tld) and that’s it. It could be especially useful if you don’t have the possibility to use features such as Opera’s Wand. One disadvantage is that the website must support it. However, the number of OpenID enabled sites is growing quite fast. Some of them are:

• ImageShack
• Technorati
• Ma.gnolia
• Crunchy
• Rootly

Another disadvantage is that if someone steals your identity, he could gain access to all of your accounts on these websites. Does not make a difference for users who do use the same username and password on all sites though.