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Plain-text-password-to prevent viewing in Internet Explorer 10

  • Mar 26, 2026
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Starting with Version 10 of Internet Explorer is displayed in the password input fields is an icon that you can see the currently entered password in clear text. If you want to turn this off completely, that is with an additional entry in the Registry is possible.

Clear-text passwords bind via Registry below

  • For this, you switch Windows 8 to Desktop view and press the key combination [Windows]+[R]. In Windows 7, open the search box from the start menu.
  • Type "regedit", press Enter, and confirm the question of user account control with "Yes".
  • Navigate to the key "HKEY_CUR RENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main". If the last key of which do not yet exist, create it first with the command "edit | New | key".
  • Then click in the right part of the window and open the command "edit | New | DWORD value". You can overwrite the suggested name with "disable password reveal" and press Enter.
  • Now open the new entry by double-clicking to edit, set its value to "1" and confirm by clicking on "OK".
  • Finally, you can close the Registry and restart the computer. In the future can be words when typing is no longer visible.

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