XP Pro: How To Change Your Network Password

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Tag Icon Tagged: Windows networking  

This tech-recipe explains how a user can change his network password in Windows XP Professional.


1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring up the Windows Security dialog box

2. Click Change Password to get to the Change Password dialog box

3. Input your current password into the Old Password text box

4. Input the desired new password into the New Password text box and type it again into the Confirm New Password text box.

5. Click OK.

Your password is now changed.

 

8 Comments -


  1. justme said on July 28, 2009

    Pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL does not bring up any Windows Security dialog box. It brings up the Task Manager. Do you mean the Windows Security Center, which I can open from the Control Panel? I have XP Pro SP3. In neither place do I see an option for “Change Password.”

  2. Anonymous said on September 26, 2009

    If you are running Microsoft XP Professional, pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del should bring up a dialog box from which you can choose ‘Task Manager’. From this dialog, you can also choose ‘Change Password’.
    If you are running Microsoft XP Home, pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del will bring up ‘Task Manager’ and you will need to go into ‘Control Panel’ and ‘Users’ to change your password.

  3. Anonymous said on October 2, 2009

    ctrl alt delete brings up my task manager … as its done with every other pc ive ever done that on

  4. Andrew Hoffmann said on March 15, 2010

    To those who get the Task Manager in Windows XP, you have to disable the Welcome Screen. See this TechNet article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281980

  5. Michellemcbee said on July 1, 2010

    Ctrl- Alt Del didn’t open security dialog box….
    now what?

  6. Aosidh said on October 18, 2010

    useless

  7. Icey said on January 18, 2011

    You guys think we are amateurs by posting such shitzzzzzzz!!

  8. Malcolm said on January 18, 2012

    Well, this is fine for changing the XP password, but I want to find out what the Network Password is.
    My computer is not password protected.
    I am installing a network extender that requires me to enter the Network Password. (Cisco-Linksys), I do not know what it is.

 

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