Thursday, June 30, 2011

Credential Manager is a nice security feature but it could be puzzling too

Credential Manager, a security feature previously introduced in Windows Vista, now improved, allows you to store credentials, such as user names and passwords that you use to log on to websites or other computers on a network. In the search box (available when clicking on "Star" or when pressing the "Windows Key", to the left of ALT) type 'credential' and then click on "Credential Manager" when it appears. Same as "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager." If you are connected to a network you should be able to see the computers you usually interact with listed in the Windows Credentials section. There is however a puzzling entry in the Generic Credentials section called virtualapp/didlogical which appears to a puzzle for a lot of folks on the Internet, including myself. In Channel 9, people behind the scenes at Microsoft, somebody asks: can someone ​at ​Microsoft ​confirm, ​whether the ​"virtualapp​/didlogical" ​entry in ​the ​Credential ​Manager was ​created by ​Windows ​Live?...

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