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on My laptop I have it set up to push ctrl + alt + del for security reasons
and then when the sign on comes on, I put my name in there and password. I
want to change that password but can not seem to find the place to change
that at. Can anyone help me?
 
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Shirley said:
on My laptop I have it set up to push ctrl + alt + del for security
reasons and then when the sign on comes on, I put my name in there
and password. I want to change that password but can not seem to
find the place to change that at. Can anyone help me?
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Control panel, user accounts. Select your account and you ought to be able
to change the password.
 
I tried that. My laptop is used for work, school and personal stuff. It was
set up by the tech guys we have for the office, I know that I can get into
the server at the office through my laptop so when I did what you suggested,
it brang me up three different choices and it will let me change the password
but when I go to log on, it will only take the old one. So I must not be
doing something right. I am the only person on the laptop so the only user
is me.
 
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Shirley said:
I tried that.
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What happened
My laptop is used for work, school and personal stuff.
It was set up by the tech guys we have for the office, I know that I
can get into the server at the office through my laptop so when I did
what you suggested, it brang me up three different choices and it
will let me change the password but when I go to log on, it will only
take the old one. So I must not be doing something right. I am the
only person on the laptop so the only user is me.
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If you are logging into a domain instead of a local account on your
workstation, you won't see your account in the local users & groups on the
workstation.

If you're logging into the local workstation, but connecting to resources on
a network/domain, you don't want to change your local password, as it likely
needs to match the password you have set on the account on the remote
machine/server...unless you are passing along credentials via other means.

You can change your password on a domain *only* when you are
in the office, connected on that network....you'd use CTRL+Alt+DEL and
choose the Change Password option.

If I were you, I would talk to your IT staff at work about this - and about
anything related to your computer, to make sure you don't break anything you
need working.
 
Shirley said:
I tried that. My laptop is used for work, school and personal stuff. It was
set up by the tech guys we have for the office, I know that I can get into
the server at the office through my laptop so when I did what you suggested,
it brang me up three different choices and it will let me change the password
but when I go to log on, it will only take the old one. So I must not be
doing something right. I am the only person on the laptop so the only user
is me.
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So you probably have a domain at the office, you have to change your
password while connected to the domain. When connected to the domain hit
ctrl+alt+del and select change password option.
 
I was afraid of that, ok thanks for confirming my thoughts even though I was
hoping I was wrongggg. :) Thanks.
 
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