You should please read our documentation about the back-end password protection feature. As noted in the documentation, if a component is trying to access anything in the back-end from the front-end you will get a 401 authorisation required error or a username / password box . Please note that this is how the web server works. You'll have to remove the .htaccess and .htpasswd files from the administrator directory. Also note that this is not linked to Admin Tools' .htaccess Maker feature. These two files are created by the administrator password protection feature.
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