XP Pro: How To Change Your Network Password

Contributed by shamanstears

September 29, 2006

Tagged: Windows networking

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.

Andrew Hoffmann

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

justin12211221

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

justme

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."

nickt99

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.