A Guide to Prevent Microsoft Edge from Saving Passwords

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to turn Password saving on or off in Password Manager in Microsoft Edge browser with Windows 10.

The new Microsoft Edge browser has adopted the Chromium open-source project code base, offering better web compatibility and performance over the legacy Edge.

Microsoft Edge browser is cross-platform and supports all Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. If you’re using Edge and want to learn how to turn off Password saving in Password Manager and help protect against password leaks, the steps below should show you how.

By default, Microsoft Edge allows users to save their passwords in Edge. The next time they visit the site for which they have stored credentials, Microsoft Edge will enter the password automatically.

This can be good, especially if you don’t always have to remember passwords for different websites. It can also speed up logging in to websites online since usernames and passwords are automatically entered for you.

This can lead to password breaches in some environments and may go against environmental policy. If you want to disable your users from saving their passwords in Microsoft Edge, continue below.

To get started with disabling Password saving, follow the steps below:

Disable Password saving in Edge

To enable or disable “Password saving” in Edge, open Microsoft Edge and click the 3 horizontal dots ( . ) at the top right corner of your screen, as shown in the image below.

When the Settings page opens, click on Profiles on the left side. Under Passwords on the right, click Offer to save passwords and turn them on or off.

Users can save their passwords in Microsoft Edge if you enable this setting. If disabled, users won’t be allowed to save their passwords.

Disable Password saving in Edge via the registry

You can also enable or disable Password saving in Microsoft Edge from the Windows registry.

You can also enable this feature via the Windows registry if logged in as an administrator. To do that, use the steps below:

Using the Windows registry is one way to force all users on the system to enable or disable Password saving. There are multiple ways to do this in Windows; however, using the Windows registry is the easiest and most effective way.

To enable, press the Windows Key + R on your keyboard to open the run command box. Or use the search function to search for the Run app.

In the command box, type the commands below and press Enter.

regedit

When the Windows registry opens, navigate to the path below. If you don’t see the Edge key, create one.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

From there, right-click on the Edge key and select the New > DWORD (32-bit) Value option to create a REG_DWORD value if you don’t see the existing PasswordManagerEnabled value already created.

If you don’t see the Edge key or folder, create one.

Name the new DWORD value as:

PasswordManagerEnabled

After saving the DWORD above, double-click it to open. Then, enter the value of 1 to enable. 0 to disable.

(delete) = Default
0 = Always disabled
1 = Always enabled

Users can save their passwords in Microsoft Edge if you enable this policy. If you turn off this policy, users can’t save new passwords but can still use previously saved passwords.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to turn “Password saving” on or off in the Microsoft Edge browser. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report.