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How to re-enable username:password@ after patch disables it

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Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (832894)
Issued: February 2, 2004

among other things updates Internet Explorer so that you can no longer use "username:password@" links and must instead manually type in web site passwords.


Is there anu way to re-enable this feature since I don't mind the other updates of the cumulative patch.
 
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Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (832894) issued: February 2, 2004

among other things updates Internet Explorer so that you can no longer
use "username:password@" web site links and must instead manually type in web
site passwords.


To re-enable this feature only and keep other updates of the cumulative patch.

In Windows registry go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main \ FeatureControl \ FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE \

...and set both explore.exe and iexplore.exe values to 0.


Detailed instructions:

Start Menu > Run... > regedit >

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main

Right click on Main > New > Key > name it
FeatureControl

Right click on FeatureControl > New > Key > name it
FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

Right click on FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE > New > DWORD value > name it
iexplore.exe

Right click on FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE > New > DWORD value > name it
explore.exe


Double click on both iexplore.exe and explore.exe set their value data to 0.



If there are different Windows users accounts, to set this change for the current user only, set the following two values to 0:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main \ FeatureControl \ FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE \ iexplore.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main \ FeatureControl \ FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE \ explore.exe
 
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