Quite often, in the course of personal computing raises the question of how to change the password on your computer.This point is very important, especially in the software products of the family Windows.With it not only provides access to the PC, but the transmission of information from it via the network.It is recommended to perform this procedure with an average frequency of once a month.This will provide an acceptable level of security of your data.
There are two ways to change the password on your computer:
- using the control panel;
- through the menu by keys «Ctrl + Alt + Del» (once, simultaneously press the first two keys, and then without releasing it, press a third).
In the first case it is very simple.Performs standard input into the operating system using the existing access code.Then press "Start" button and select from the menu item "Control Panel."In the window that opens, we find the label "Users".It press the left button of the manipulator "mouse" twice.In the window that will be all user accounts listed on the user's computer.Here you can make a change, or delete an administrator password.You need to know it.Open the box administrator profile and there find the item "Change access code".To change the need to fill in all three lines of the window that opens, and to remove only the first, and the rest - leave empty.
If you need to perform this operation on their profile, then open the window parameters.Then proceed directly to the question of how to change the password on your computer.To do this, go to the menu item - "Change password".It is necessary to bring the mouse pointer, and then double click on it all using the same button.In the window that opens, you must enter the first line of the old password, and the bottom two - new.After manipulations should save them, and for that you must press the appropriate button.This method is suitable for all operating systems of the software developer.
now turn to the second answer to the question of how to change the password on a Windows 7 or Vista.It is much easier.But it works only in the two systems.To begin operation, the ordinary entrance with the old access code to the PC.Then, as described above, press «Ctrl + Alt + Del» (first, first you must simultaneously press the two buttons, then hold them to click a third).The corresponding menu in which you need to select "Change Password".Just worth mentioning: since you can only make changes to the active profile, that is, under which you are logged.All other possible to change only the previously specified manner.When you double-click the mouse on this menu item will open a similar window to change the password, which has been previously described, consisting of three lines.In the first enter the old password, and in the next two - the new.Save and exit the menu.
This article listed the two most common ways of how to change the password on a computer running all the operating systems Windows, except 8. What a way to choose - the private affair of each user.