Monday, September 19, 2011

The password stored in Credential Manager is invalid. This might be caused by the user changing the password from this computer or a different compute

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx
and copy it to C:\Windows\System32 .
From a command prompt run: psexec -i -s -d cmd.exe
From the new DOS window run: rundll32 keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr
Remove any items that appear in the list of Stored User Names and Passwords. Restart the computer.

2 comments:

Carlo.G said...

This was the solution to a problem that I had already spent many hours on. A scheduled tasks running as SYSTEM was failing and causing my personal AD account to be locked.

But be carefull about deleting ALL entries from credential manager. It is normal for any scheduled task running to have entries in here, under the context of the system account. The entry I had to deleted was different...it had the name of a file server and seemed to be gettign used by any scheduled tasks that accessed that file server, regardless of the userid the task was running under. So I deleted that credential entry (but not the credentaial entries for my schedules tasks) and this solved my problem!!

s7726 said...

This proved to be the solution to a problem I was having as well. gpupdate would update the user policy successfully, but the computer policy would fail.