title: Windows equivalent of OS X Keychain?
body: <p>Is there an equivalent of the OS X Keychain, used to store user passwords, in Windows? I would use it to save the user's password for a web service that my (desktop) software uses.</p>
  
  <p>From the answers to this related question (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/225838/protecting-user-passwords-in-desktop-applications-rev-2">Protecting user passwords in desktop applications (Rev 2)</a>) and the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11362/what-is-your-favorite-password-storage-tool">multitude of third party password storage tools</a> available, I assume that such a thing doesn't exist-- Am I stuck with either asking for the password each time I access the web service, or just storing it obfuscated?</p>