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When you enter the desktop how can you add/remove/modify a password?
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When you enter the desktop how can you add/remove/modify a password?
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in the Control Panel or you can make use of the command line.
Clicking Start the Run then typing CMD will open a command prompt. If you then type net help user you will get the help screen that provides the proper syntax.
the command net user {user_account} (new_password) from either the run line or from the command prompt will create or change the password for the named account. The command net user {user_account} * from either the run line or the command prompt will prompt you to enter the new password.
The windows net commands are quite useful and quick. For instance rather than all the button clicking to change the user John from a limited account to an administrator account this simple command does the job - net localgroup administrators John /add (you do need to be running the command prompt as an administrator)