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Introduction |
In this article, I will be showing you two different
methods for creating a
password for an already created user account in Windows
7. The first is through the use of the control panel applet,
whereas the second method is by using the computer
management console. You will use this password the next
time you boot your machine and wants to logon to your
user account, or when you lock your user account and
wants to logon again later.
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While installing Windows 7, one of the steps is
to a username and then you are given an option to
either type a password for this username. You might
not wish to type a password at that time, but now
after that you installed Windows 7 and set it up,
you are ready to create a password for your user
account.


To create a password for a user account, follow the
below steps:
- Click on Start
>
Control Panel

- Under the User Accounts
and Family Safety category,
click on Add or remove user
accounts

- Choose the account that you
would like to create a password for,
this is done by clicking on the user
account name.

- The Change an Account page
will open, click on Create a
password

- Type the password you want to
set for this user account.

Remember to set a strong password,
else it would be useless to have a
password that anyone would guess
A strong password is considered to
be :
-
Is
at least eight
characters long.
These characters
contain letters,
digits and special
characters such as (
$ , % , etc .. )
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Does
not contain your
user name, real
name, or company
name.
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Does
not contain a
complete word.
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Is
significantly
different from
previous passwords.
Actually its really up to you, you
can have a password of a single
character and you might be satisfied
with it.
After you type your password and
confirm it again, click on Create
password button. If
you are a person who usually forgets
his passwords, then its better to
type a password hint, so that when
you forget your password, from
reading the hint, it will give you
an idea what your password is, but
remember, password hint is visible
to everyone who uses the computer,
so make sure that your hint is not
understood by someone else, choose
your own hints.

- After you click on the
Create password button, the
password will be created and the
Change an Account
page will open again, you
will notice now that the
Create a password option is
now replace with Change the
password and Remove
the password

Your user account is now protected
with a password, so you can safely
lock your user account or even log
off, and you will be confident now
that no one will be able to log on
to your user account, unless of
course you provided him/her with
your own password.
There is another method to set and change a user
account password, this is my preferred method actually.
Check below steps :
- Click Start
> right click on Computer
and click on Manage

- The Computer Management
console will open, from the left side
pane, expand Local Users and
Groups then click on the
Users node.

- From the middle pane, right
click on the user account name that
you want to create a password for,
and then click on Set
Password

- You will receive a warning pop
up message, take a moment to read it
and then click on Proceed

- Type the password and then
confirm it by typing it again, then
click OK

- Your Password will be changed.
Click on OK, then
close Computer Management
console

Summary
In this article, I have shown you two different
methods to create a password for a user account. The
first one is by using the control panel applet, and the
second method is by using the computer management console.
So the next time you boot your machine, you will have to
enter the user account's password in order to
successfully logon.
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