Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@tomfanning
Last active March 28, 2025 23:40
Show Gist options
  • Save tomfanning/77f20a1bb50055e915f4 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save tomfanning/77f20a1bb50055e915f4 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Batch file to clear all credentials from Windows Credential Manager
@echo off
cmdkey.exe /list > "%TEMP%\List.txt"
findstr.exe Target "%TEMP%\List.txt" > "%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt"
FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%G IN (%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt) DO cmdkey.exe /delete:%%H
del "%TEMP%\List.txt" /s /f /q
del "%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt" /s /f /q
echo All done
pause
@r-this
Copy link

r-this commented Aug 1, 2022

Thanks for this. is there a way to only delete credentials from a specific source, say Adobe for example, using this script?

for /F "tokens=1,* delims= " %G in ('cmdkey /list ^| findstr Adobe') do cmdkey /delete %H

This worked for me!

Thanks! This worked for me. I had to add an extra '%' to make it work, as follows:

for /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%G in ('cmdkey /list ^| findstr vscode') do cmdkey /delete %%H

@abu7midan
Copy link

@echo off
cmdkey.exe /list > "%TEMP%\List.txt"
findstr.exe Target "%TEMP%\List.txt" > "%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt"
FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%G IN (%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt) DO cmdkey.exe /delete:%%H
del "%TEMP%\List.txt" /s /f /q
del "%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt" /s /f /q
echo All done
pause

@alpo67
Copy link

alpo67 commented May 25, 2023

Hi team I would like to add this command to the cleaning credentials bat file:
Go to the path %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\ and delete the folder named OfficeFileCache.

FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%G IN ('cmdkey /list ^| findstr OfficeFileCache') do cmdkey /delete %%H

(I am not an expert, very sorry if sounds crazy)

@ham1tcagdas
Copy link

Hello Guys, i m glad to find some echo to remove credentials but i need it for ControlPanel\UserAccounts\CredentialManager\WebCredential what you write top of page is helps to remove WindowsCredentials. Can you help me to remove for WebCredentials? That saved on myComputer. i need it to fix this problem:
ApplicationFrameHost_IW2jtP5aNU
When i open my XBOX app and Trying to login previous friends logged in my pc their accounts keep appearing in this list and i want this list clean up.

@Atha1Kishan
Copy link

I have tried using following and it worked for me.
Open Powershell and run the following commands
Following will remove Adobe credentials
cmdkey /list | Select-String "Adobe" -SimpleMatch | ForEach-Object { cmdkey /delete:($_ -replace "^.+?Target: ","") }

Following will remove Microsoft credentials
cmdkey /list | Select-String "Microsoft" -SimpleMatch | ForEach-Object { cmdkey /delete:($_ -replace "^.+?Target: ","") }

@WyattBest
Copy link

Similar to @Atha1Kishan's answer, here's a small script to delete all credentials matching a search string:

# List all credentials in the current user's Credential Manager
$all_creds = cmdkey /list

# Delete all credentials matching a specific pattern, like 'Microsoft:SSMS'
$pattern = "Microsoft:SSMS"
foreach ($cred in $all_creds) {
    if ($cred -match "target=(.+)") {
        $cred_name = $matches[1]
        # Now $cred_name contains everything after "target="
        if ($cred_name -like "*$pattern*") {
            cmdkey /delete:$cred_name
            Write-Output $cred_name
        }
    }
}

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment