Do not allow passwords to be saved in Remote desktop connection

Question

Greeting, I have a PC with Windows 7 home edition. As known, Windows 7 home edition has no Group Policy setting option. I want to disable saving password and user name option in Remote desktop connection and I know how to do it with gpedit.msc but now without having this option how can I disable saving password and user name option in Remote desktop connection?

by the way, I'm using rdp file to connect. Please advice.

Regards,

Solution

Not sure if this works on the home edition, but this is what the policy effectively does:

1. Open regedit

2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services

3. Create or edit a DWORD named DisablePasswordSaving and set the value to 1 (any non-zero value should do)

If you just want to apply this to a single user and not for all users, make this change to the same key in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Comments

[vladr]

Or edit the Group Policy

[Mathias R. Jessen]

@vladr The question begs for a non-GPO solution, thus "this is what the policy effectively does:"