[c#] How to securely save username/password (local)?

I'm making a Windows application, which you need to log into first.
The account details consist of username and password, and they need to be saved locally.
It's just a matter of security, so other people using the same computer can't see everyone's personal data.
What is the best/most secure way to save this data?

I don't want to use a database, so I tried some things with Resource files.
But since I'm kind of new with this, I'm not entirely sure of what I'm doing and where I should be looking for a solution.

I wanted to encrypt and decrypt the string as a readable string.

Here is a very simple quick example in C# Visual Studio 2019 WinForms based on the answer from @Pradip.

Right click project > properties > settings > Create a username and password setting.

Now you can leverage those settings you just created. Here I save the username and password but only encrypt the password in it's respectable value field in the user.config file.

Example of the encrypted string in the user.config file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <userSettings>
        <secure_password_store.Properties.Settings>
            <setting name="username" serializeAs="String">
                <value>admin</value>
            </setting>
            <setting name="password" serializeAs="String">
                <value>AQAAANCMnd8BFdERjHoAwE/Cl+sBAAAAQpgaPYIUq064U3o6xXkQOQAAAAACAAAAAAAQZgAAAAEAACAAAABlQQ8OcONYBr9qUhH7NeKF8bZB6uCJa5uKhk97NdH93AAAAAAOgAAAAAIAACAAAAC7yQicDYV5DiNp0fHXVEDZ7IhOXOrsRUbcY0ziYYTlKSAAAACVDQ+ICHWooDDaUywJeUOV9sRg5c8q6/vizdq8WtPVbkAAAADciZskoSw3g6N9EpX/8FOv+FeExZFxsm03i8vYdDHUVmJvX33K03rqiYF2qzpYCaldQnRxFH9wH2ZEHeSRPeiG</value>
            </setting>
        </secure_password_store.Properties.Settings>
    </userSettings>
</configuration>

Full Code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace secure_password_store
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Exit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Application.Exit();
        }

        private void Login_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (checkBox1.Checked == true)
            {
                Properties.Settings.Default.username = textBox1.Text;
                Properties.Settings.Default.password = EncryptString(ToSecureString(textBox2.Text));
                Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
            }
            else if (checkBox1.Checked == false)
            {
                Properties.Settings.Default.username = "";
                Properties.Settings.Default.password = "";
                Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
            }
            MessageBox.Show("{\"data\": \"some data\"}","Login Message Alert",MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
        }
        private void DecryptString_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            SecureString password = DecryptString(Properties.Settings.Default.password);
            string readable = ToInsecureString(password);
            textBox4.AppendText(readable + Environment.NewLine);
        }
        private void Form_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //textBox1.Text = "UserName";
            //textBox2.Text = "Password";
            if (Properties.Settings.Default.username != string.Empty)
            {
                textBox1.Text = Properties.Settings.Default.username;
                checkBox1.Checked = true;
                SecureString password = DecryptString(Properties.Settings.Default.password);
                string readable = ToInsecureString(password);
                textBox2.Text = readable;
            }
            groupBox1.Select();
        }


        static byte[] entropy = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("SaLtY bOy 6970 ePiC");

        public static string EncryptString(SecureString input)
        {
            byte[] encryptedData = ProtectedData.Protect(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(ToInsecureString(input)),entropy,DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser);
            return Convert.ToBase64String(encryptedData);
        }

        public static SecureString DecryptString(string encryptedData)
        {
            try
            {
                byte[] decryptedData = ProtectedData.Unprotect(Convert.FromBase64String(encryptedData),entropy,DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser);
                return ToSecureString(Encoding.Unicode.GetString(decryptedData));
            }
            catch
            {
                return new SecureString();
            }
        }

        public static SecureString ToSecureString(string input)
        {
            SecureString secure = new SecureString();
            foreach (char c in input)
            {
                secure.AppendChar(c);
            }
            secure.MakeReadOnly();
            return secure;
        }

        public static string ToInsecureString(SecureString input)
        {
            string returnValue = string.Empty;
            IntPtr ptr = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SecureStringToBSTR(input);
            try
            {
                returnValue = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.PtrToStringBSTR(ptr);
            }
            finally
            {
                System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ZeroFreeBSTR(ptr);
            }
            return returnValue;
        }

        private void EncryptString_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Properties.Settings.Default.password = EncryptString(ToSecureString(textBox2.Text));
            textBox3.AppendText(Properties.Settings.Default.password.ToString() + Environment.NewLine);
        }
    }
}

I have used this before and I think in order to make sure credential persist and in a best secure way is

1. you can write them to the app config file using the ConfigurationManager class
2. securing the password using the SecureString class
3. then encrypting it using tools in the Cryptography namespace.

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This only works on Windows, so if you are planning to use dotnet core cross-platform, you'll have to look elsewhere. See https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/Documentation/architecture/cross-platform-cryptography.md

DPAPI is just for this purpose. Use DPAPI to encrypt the password the first time the user enters is, store it in a secure location (User's registry, User's application data directory, are some choices). Whenever the app is launched, check the location to see if your key exists, if it does use DPAPI to decrypt it and allow access, otherwise deny it.