Eliminating "Secrets"

[Sylvander]

I have happened by accident upon the fact that a program I have in use can [within Windows] read the "Secrets" of my PC software [logon passwords etc], and I'd like to eliminate these secret saved passwords from my PC.
If I can read them, then so can someone else. :(

They cannot be deleted within the program.
I guess they are stored; probably in the registry.

Does anyone have any idea how to delete those that can be done without [website login passwords, Tesco, but not PC-Guide], and to hide the Windows login password?

[classicsoftware]

Sylvander, if you are using Windows 98, the login password as security is 100000000% useless as you can bypass with the esc key or hitting cancel at the login window.

I would like to know the registry key you are referencing in your image and what program you suspect is storing the information in this manner.

[Sylvander]

I'm running Win2000Pro.

The program used [from which that image was copied] is "System Information for Windows" [siw.exe], which I'm running from my external USB HDD [no settings needed in the registry].

The program doesn't store the info.
I think the program is displaying information that it finds in the registry, but that image isn't directly displaying registry keys.

[classicsoftware]

If you are running Win2K then the program is reading the SAM database to get the password information and there is nothing you can do to prevent this except don't run the program. If you eliminate the secrets, you will not be able to logon.

[jlreich]

I use that program sometimes and all it shows in my system (XP) is the passwords for OE. It doesn't show the login PW. I don't use auto complete so I am not sure about that.

[azzey]

Doesn't show any passwords for me either.

[Sylvander]

The "Login Password" that I avoided displaying was showing the Windows login password for my Windows account.

The other two "AutoComplete Passwords" were...
A password used by my daughters boyfriend to log in to a website [so I now know the website, username and password he used, and I'd rather not know].
And similarly for the name and password I must have saved once for the Tesco website [don't usually save any passwords except for the PC Guide, yet that doesn't show].