{"id":1519,"date":"2026-02-20T22:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:00:03","slug":"windows-10-11-delete-github-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/2026\/02\/20\/windows-10-11-delete-github-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove github credentials under Windows 10 &amp; 11 platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing code to a personal repository always prompts a 403 error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fatal: unable to access \u2018https:\/\/github.com\/xxx\/xxx.git\/\u2019: The requested URL returned error: 403<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online search, all about how to delete credentials in mac or linux method, in windows does not apply at all, checked a lot of information, finally found the following method:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press Win + R, type control keymgr.dll and enter to open the credential manager;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1011\" height=\"651\" data-src=\"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/github2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1520 lazyload\" title=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/github2.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/github2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/github2-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/github2-18x12.jpg 18w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1011px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1011\/651;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the \"Windows Credentials\" tab, find all entries that contain github.com (usually of the \"normal credentials\" type);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Select these entries and click \"Delete\" to clear the old cached credentials.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Win + R, type control keymgr.dll and enter to open the credential manager<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology-share","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcardx.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}