Protecting your computer with a password is an effective security method that can be implemented. According to this, only those people who have it, will be the only ones who can access the Windows account.
Thanks to this we can put the user settings . We can reduce the people who enter our profile. In the same way that it is put, you can remove the passwords for access to Windows . And we can change these, through user administration or by CMD.
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- What characteristics should passwords have in Windows 10 to be secure?
- long passwords
- With a wide variety of items
- hard to guess
- How do I change the Windows 10 password?
- With a Microsoft account
- From a local account
- Using CMD
What characteristics should passwords have in Windows 10 to be secure?
When we put a password for our Windows computer . It is not simply putting passwords without more. You have to take into account some indications to make these as safe as possible. In this way, not everyone can guess what the password we just entered will be.
You also have the option to remove the Windows password so as not to take long to have the entire panel, but that is not what we are looking for in this article.
long passwords
One of the best options we have, and we can use. It is to put very long passwords that are difficult to guess, and that are not as obvious as for example: put as passwords the sequence from one to the new. With long passwords, it will not be very easy to guess , and it is one of the safest and best ways to protect your user in Windows.
With a wide variety of items
Another option available to you. It is to use a wide variety of elements in writing your password. That is, using all kinds of characters is a good strategy to avoid relying on obvious passwords. You can use numbers, periods, commas, special characters such as asterisks, percentages, quotes, among others.
hard to guess
A complexity requirement will help to have a password free from detection by other users but in the case of Windows computers , running Windows 10. Some terms that make passwords suitable and acceptable to be set, these complexity requirements passwords are very important for account protection
- The password that you are going to place. I couldn’t have the same name as the user account. Since it is considered, as a very obvious password
- These passwords must have characters such as words in uppercase. Non-alphanumeric characters such as: ‘ ~!@ #$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;”<>,. ?/’, and numbers.
How do I change the Windows 10 password?
The procedure to change the password of the user accounts of our computer is not very complicated. Since this task is made easy, by the options that the system itself lets us know and provides. With this together, there are different ways to do it , since Windows stands out for having different ways to do a task on your system.
With a Microsoft account
In the possibilities of changing the password, we have the option to change it with a Microsoft account. To do this, enter the Windows settings, so that you can then go to the ‘Accounts’ part . Here, you will be seeing all the user account options, you must log in with your Microsoft account to do the process
After you have logged in. You will have to go to the option to change the password, so that you click on change. It will be appearing in a window, the requirements. You will have to put the current password, followed by the password that you will put, you will have to write it twice . In the ‘Next’ option, Windows will be changing the password automatically.
From a local account
To do it from a local account. You must go to the start of Windows , and click on the start menu of the account, and we choose the account that you want to change the password.
This in case you have more than one account on the computer. Next, you will have to go to ‘Change account settings’ and then select ‘login options’, and in this way you will reach the option to change password
When you click, a blue window will open where you will proceed to change the password. You will have to put the current password of the computer, to go to the next tab where you will put the new password twice and put a hint for a reminder, this in case you forget. Also, you can reset the login password if you want.
Using CMD
Using the CMD command lines, you can have your password changed immediately. You will only have to open CMD from the start of Windows, and write the command ‘net user’, it will show you a list of system users. you will place the command of ‘ net user’ ‘User’ ‘new password’.
Replacing ‘user’ with the user’s name and ‘new password’ with the password you want to set to that user.
