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HI Bruce,
I too would like to know the registry location but as you said, MS would not answer that question. I will just avoid NET passport with my xp computer. Thanks for all the help.

Well I solved the problem with help from Microsoft. It took lots of emails and finally a threat on my part to get them to part with the information but they did. Here is what they wrote:

This is CJ and I understand that you are a bit
worried about the security of your account. You
also want to erase in registry from inside your
Windows XP, to avoid automatic sign in of your
profile.

You can remove your .NET Passport registry.

Let me walk to the steps in doing so:
1. Go to User Accounts in the Windows XP Control
Panel (Start, Control Panel).
2. On the Advanced tab, click Manage Passwords.
3. In Stored User Names and Passwords, select
Passport.Net*, and click Remove.
This does not delete your Passport, but removes
its connection with your computer.
4. Click Close, and then click OK in the dialog
box.
Note
If you click Sign me in automatically in the .NET
Messenger Service sign-in dialog box, you will
reestablish the Passport you use there as the
default for that computer.

It didn’t work quite like that on my computer. I got into user accounts, clicked my account, clicked manage my network passwords, then deleted all the entries in the box dealing with net passport. All the user names and passwords then disapeared. At first they insisted it was autocomplete but when I cleared that and then sent screen shots of my next automatic login they sent the solution above. Thank you to everyone who tried to help.

Ok, thanks for the advice. I thought I could do that without deleting c. I’ve used F disk many times but never when I wanted to save anything. I am to cheap to buy Partition Magic just for this one time. I have an old version of PM but it doesn’t want to work with fat32. I’ll give it a try after reading the links provided. Thanks again.

Hi Cyberdance,
I am using Office 97 Pro on my XP home machine without a problem. I mostly use word and excel and they both work fine.

OK, That worked just fine. I made a screen shot of what I found under SAM. I looked at each key and found only binairy entries. Nothing that stood out as a clue. Take a look and if you want a zeroed in screen shot of a key let me know.

That was my screenshot I posted

I read through what you linked to but didn’t understand what I was supposed to do.

I ran the regshot program. I then signed up with msn passport with a new email address. I ran regshot compare and the attached file is what resulted. I have no idea where the yamaha sound card entry came from. I hope this helps.

I’m down loading regshot now. I will give that a try and post the results. Thanks.

No problem. Take your time. I can live with it for now and it will be interesting to see what you both come up with.

Wow, I am reading the latest messages with great interest but you both are way over my head. I of course have gotten no where. I even managed to add three more user names to the drop down list without gaining any information as to where they are stored. And it seems as though the last one I log on to is the one that automatically logs me in the next time I go to msn. I can change accounts by signing out and then clicking sign in and choosing another user name (email address). I did get a message from Microsoft telling me they are a little busy right now but they will get back to me. I wrote them again, telling them my children are automatically being logged on to my adult content groups and are being exposed to adult material and that I am upset about it. It’s not true but maybe that will light a fire under them. And this never happens with my 98 computers, only the XP machine. On the 98 computers I get a blank sign in screen with no drop downs. For what all this is worth. But it sure is interesting to listen to you both. I’ll sit back and keep on reading. Thank you.

Yes you’re right they are email addresses. That is what MSN uses as a login user name. I did a search of the registry for protected storage and turned up entries all over. Here is a screen shot of one under hkey current user. All the data seems to be encripted, I didn’t find anything that mentioned MSN or the email address or anything useful.

Here is the 2nd subkey

Here is the first subkey

Here is the screen shot of the key you wanted to see on an XP machine.