Setup and add password protection in Windows 7
When you create new user accounts, Windows 7 gives you the option of adding password protection or not; if you don't currently need to enter a password the logon to Windows, it means that your profile is not "password protected". Fortunately, this is a setting you can change at any time, as you'll learn in this tutorial. Conversely, you can at any point remove password protection from Windows 7. Let's now show you how to add a password to your profile, a preferable setting, security-wise.
Add a password to your Windows 7 user account
Here are the simple instructions to follow to enable password protection:
- First, click on the start button, and type "add password" inside the search field; as you type, Windows 7 will display matching results. Click on "Create or remove your account password":
- As soon as you do, Windows 7 will open the Control Panel, with the "Make changes to your user account" screen automatically selected. Click on the first link below the header, labeled "Create a password for your account": (only visible if you don't currently have a password).
- Windows 7 will redirect you to another screen, which contains three text fields: enter the password you want to add to your profile inside the "New password" field; to avoid typos, enter that same password inside the "Confirm new password" text field.
- Although the next field is optional, we strongly recommend that you supply a "Password hint", which will be used by Windows 7 to help you remember your account password in case you happen to forget it. Enter one or more words inside the "Type a password hint" text field, and make sure that this password reminder only helps you, not others!
- Once you have entered your new password (twice), and optionally added a password hint for protection against yourself, click on the "Create password" button at the bottom.
And you have successfully added password protection to your Windows 7 user account! Notice that when the Control Panel brings you back to the previous screen, you will no longer see the "Create a password for your account" link; instead, Windows 7 will show two new links, namely "Change your password" and "Remove your password". Previous tutorials cover these topics in details: easily learn how to change password in Windows 7, and how to remove password protection in Windows 7.
Windows 7 Tip: although Microsoft's latest operating system will allow you to use your PC without any form of password protection, we recommend that you always use a password, unless you happen to be the only one with physical access to this particular laptop or desktop computer (and even then, depending on your local network settings and security protection, having a password is safer).
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