How to change default of password checkbox?

When you connect to a shared resource on a Win9x peer-to-peer network, the "Enter Network Password" dialog box pops up. Including a checkbox labelled "Save this password in your password list ". By default this checkbox is "Checked" (which IMHO is an annoyance). I want to change the default to "Unchecked ", without losing the box altogether.

I've hunted through the Registry and the Internet, but can't seem to find a place to toggle this setting.

QUESTION 1: who knows of an (undocumented) setting in the Registry to achieve this??

Next, I'd attempt a hack to change the default from "checked" to "unchecked ".
This usually can be done through programs like "Resource Hacker" (32-bits resources only) or eXeScope.

The only DLL I can find containing the text "Save this password in your passsword list" is Nddeapi.dll (16-bits).
This DLL indeed includes the "Enter Network Password" dialog box, but not the default setting, which apparently is done from another file or application.

So far I've been unable to find out where/how the default "checked" is set.

QUESTION 2: which EXE or DLL controls this setting?? And how the default be hacked??

Any help or suggestions are highly appreciated.

Thank you!

- Hans Spoor

 

Hey,
I believe this is what you need.
Even if they choose to save the pass, they'll have to re-enter it the next time.

(Windows 95/98/Me)

More on Disabling Passwords

Post back if it works or not.

Rookie
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"Disable password caching" unfortunately doesn't help. That's what I meant when I wrote in my question "...without losing the box altogether." By disabling 'password caching' I would disable ALL password caching (i.e. no possibility to save ANY password).

What I want is to save the password for certain shared resources, and not save the password for certain other.

You can summarize my question as the difference between "Opt in" and "Opt out ". Win 98SE now works as "Opt out ": you have to explicitely UNcheck, for the password NOT to be saved.

I want this to work like IE6's phone dialer works: it remembers your Most Recent choices for "Automatically connect" and "Save Password ".

The annoying thing with the "checked by default" password box is that I often enter a password and press OK (more or less in hurry) for a resource I do NOT want to save the password. The only way then to remove the password from the password list is through MS's "Password List Editor ". Not really a disaster, but an annoyance I'd like to get rid of.

Example: when I connect from my Home PC to Shared Directories on my Office PC, I don't want the password(s) to remain on my Home PC. Any family member using the PC after me would be able to logon to shared resources on my office PC. However, for other shared resources on my Home network I DO want to keep the password on my Home PC, for obvious reasons.

Hope this helps to clarify my question and the need from which it arose.

Thank you.