Detailed description of the new Credential Manager introduced by Win8

Detailed description of the new Credential Manager introduced by Win8
Windows 8 introduces the account synchronization function. By default, system settings, IE browsing records, and other information are bound to Microsoft accounts. After you log on with this account, the system automatically synchronizes related content in the background. Related to personal security, the information stored in the browser for website login is automatically synchronized. You can use the Win8 Credential Manager to view the Security creden。 stored on the computer.
Use the shortcut key Win + X and select control panel in the pop-up menu to view the creden Manager (if it is viewed by category, it is under the "user account and home security" entry ).
After entering, unlike the previous versions of Windows, not only Windows creden。 are available, but also Web creden。 are added.
In Web creden, you can view the stored creden。 related to network logon authentication. These creden can be stored by different applications, including IE, Skype, and Windows applications. For example, this credential is stored by the "email, Hitachi, contacts, and message" application. The user name is the email address. The part in the blue circle indicates that it has the roaming attribute. That is to say, if you log on to the same Microsoft account on another Windows 8 computer, it will automatically synchronize the creden. My account was used since the Developer Preview version of Win8, so I saved a lot of creden. The advantage of synchronization is that I don't need to enter the username and password of so many users because I changed the host or operating system. I only need to create an online account corresponding to a Microsoft account on Windows 8. The password saved by IE can also be managed here. Compared with the automatic saving function of the username and password in the IE 9 browser, the complete one-by-one record can be seen here, so that you can easily clear the selected password rather than clear it all.

Another part of the creden manager is to manage Windows creden. You can view the information stored on the local machine for logging on to the remote computer. Of course, if you have installed Office 2013, you can also see an Office15 credential in common creden, it enables you to automatically log on to and even edit content on Skydrive when using the Office software. Some users may encounter a credential name (the last line) named virtualapp/didlogical here ), this is because Windows Live related components have been installed (I have installed both the Messenger and Writer components before) and can be deleted without using these components.

Because this part is used for Windows and related local programs, this part of content will not be synchronized through the Microsoft account and needs to be manually backed up and restored. Click "backup creden。" to back up these creden. Select a location, preferably a non-local hard disk, so that files are not lost when the local hard disk crashes. Click Next to see the prompt: "press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to continue the backup on the secure desktop ." After you press these three keys, you will be prompted to enter the password and confirm the password. In this way, you can save the local creden. Similar to the restoration, select the creden file to be restored and press the three key combinations as before, and enter the password to restore.


With the above creden manager, how can the system go wrong? As long as you keep the Microsoft account and creden file, the stored username and password will be immediately returned!