Clear credentials in Windows Credential Manager
- Windows onlyThis script improves your privacy on Windows
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- Impact: High
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This companion demonstrates: clear credentials in Windows Credential Manager to protect personal data as part of personal data enforcement for Windows.
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PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "$cmdkeyPath = Get-Command cmdkey -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue; if (-not $cmdkeyPath) { throw 'Failed to find the `cmdkey` utility on this system.'; }; $cmdkeyListOutput = & $cmdkeyPath /list; if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "^""Failed to execute `cmdkey /list`. Exit code: $LASTEXITCODE."^""; }; if (-not $cmdkeyListOutput) { throw 'Failed to retrieve credentials list. The output from `cmdkey /list` is empty.'; }; $credentialEntries = @($cmdkeyListOutput | Select-String 'Target'); if (-not $credentialEntries) { Write-Host 'Skipping: No credentials found for deletion.'; exit 0; }; $allCredentialsDeletedSuccessfully = $true; Write-Host "^""Total of $($credentialEntries.Length) credential(s) found. Initiating deletion..."^""; foreach ($credentialEntry in $credentialEntries) { if ($credentialEntry -notmatch 'Target:(.+)') { Write-Error "^""Failed to parse credential from output: $credentialEntry"^""; $allCredentialsDeletedSuccessfully = $false; continue; }; $credentialTargetName = $matches[1].Trim(); Write-Host "^""Deleting credential: `"^""$credentialTargetName`"^""..."^""; & $cmdkeyPath /delete:$credentialTargetName; if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Write-Error "^""Failed to delete credential '$credentialTargetName'. `cmdkey` returned exit code: $LASTEXITCODE."^""; $allCredentialsDeletedSuccessfully = $false; } else { Write-Host "^""Successfully deleted credential: `"^""$credentialTargetName`"^""."^""; }; }; if (-not $allCredentialsDeletedSuccessfully) { Write-Warning 'Failed to delete some credentials. Please check the error messages above.'; } else { Write-Host "^""Successfully deleted all $($credentialEntries.Length) credential(s)."^""; }"
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