How come I instantly already have my account logged in, even when I just reinstalled Native Access?

I uninstalled Native Access and all NI related instruments during a virus scare (thankfully it was resolved). But when I reinstalled it, as I opened it, it automatically has my account and all my registered vsts in it. How is it possible? I actually expected that I have to input my account in Access.
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Windows has a thing called "Credential Manager". It could be that the password is stored there, whereas the username (email address) is stored in the registry.
I see these entries in that manager, but there's no username attached to any of them:
There is, however, a username field called "LastLoggedInUsername" inside the registry @ "\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Native Access".
So, this is likely how it works.
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Probably, the information about your account, that NA uses, has not been uninstalled and NA found it after installation.
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So is there a certain file that I have to delete?
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Well, it may be written somewhere. On Win the usermane (email address is stored in registry), I do not know, where NI stores the password. It may be registry or a file somewhere.
On Mac I do not know at all.
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Windows has a thing called "Credential Manager". It could be that the password is stored there, whereas the username (email address) is stored in the registry.
I see these entries in that manager, but there's no username attached to any of them:
There is, however, a username field called "LastLoggedInUsername" inside the registry @ "\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Native Access".
So, this is likely how it works.
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NA or NTKDaemon probably read from registry LastLoggedUser and one of them gets password from Credential Manager.
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