Change Windows 7 password
When you first create a user account on Windows 7 (either for you, or for another user), you will have the option to add a password to protect access to the files and preferences under that profile. And you will keep using that password whenever you want to logon to Windows - whether the computer is starting, or another person is already using the PC, and you want to access your profile. In this tutorial, we will show you how to change your password in Windows 7, a change in settings that takes effect immediately.
Change your user account password in Windows 7
Follow these simple steps to pick another password for your Windows 7 profile: note that, in this tutorial, we are assuming that you want to change your own Windows 7 password - if not, see instead how you can change the password of another user account on Windows 7.
- First, click on the start button, and type "change password" inside the start menu search field.
- Then, click on the "Change your Windows password" link displayed at the top of the search results to open the relevant screen inside the Control Panel.
- Windows 7 will now show you the "Make changes to your user account" page, from where you can manage your Windows profile, including changing its password.
- Click on the "Change your password" link at the top, as shown on the screenshot below:
- As soon as you do, Windows 7 will open the "Change your password" screen, which contains four text fields. To prevent someone else from changing your user account password without your authorization, Windows 7 will first ask you to enter your current password as a security measure - type it inside the "Current Password" text field:
- Then, type the new password you want to change to inside the next two fields, "New password" and "Confirm new password" - the second time, Windows 7 is just trying to avoid any typo in the new password, since you cannot see what you are typing in password fields:
- Finally, Windows 7 offers an optional safety feature, and we recommend that you take advantage of it: the next text field is labeled "Type a password hint", and is designed to allow you to enter some kind of information that will help you remember your Windows 7 password in case you forget it - before changing your Windows password, take the time to come up with a hint that will help you and only you guess your Windows password (it should not be so obvious that anyone who knows you could guess it!)
(Windows 7 will display your password hint when you are trying to login to your account, and have unsuccessfully entered a wrong passwords several times in a row - you can change password hint.) - Once you have entered your current password, the new password twice, and chosen a password hint for your Windows 7 account, click on the "Change password" button to apply the change and return to Windows. (Or click on "Cancel" to keep your current credentials and go back to the previous screen without changing your account password.)
Immediately start using your new Windows 7 password
This is all it takes to change your Windows 7 password! You can now close the Control Panel and return to what you were doing; since the change is applied right away, you will need to start using your new Windows password as soon as you are asked for it (whether you are trying to change an operating system setting, or have locked your computer and are trying to get back in).
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