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Reset User Password

How do you reset the users password give the steps it took to get you to the user account.

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Last Update: July 03, 2009 Asked by: Big Al

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Submitted by: odzta

If its a local account on an XP machine or 2000 you can enter control panel and local users icon to reset accounts. Or enter RUN from Start menu and type lusrmgr.msc to open the applet directly. If the account resides on an active directory server environment then you will need to open the ADUC. You can do this by either drilling down to it from the administration tools menu off the start menu or via control panel or by going to RUN from START menu and entering DSA.msc.

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May 15, 2008 03:45:45

odzta

Member Since: May 2008 Contribution: 1

RE: Reset User Password

If its a local account on an XP machine or 2000 you can enter control panel and local users icon to reset accounts. Or enter RUN from Start menu and type lusrmgr.msc to open the applet directly. If the account resides on an active directory server environment then you will need to open the ADUC. You can do this by either drilling down to it from the administration tools menu off the start menu or via control panel or by going to RUN from START menu and entering DSA.msc.

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May 21, 2008 05:26:38

naseeb

Member Since: May 2008 Contribution: 1

RE: Reset User Password

right click mycomputer -manage-local users and groups-users-select the user name-right click and click rename-type the name which we wan to use-click ok

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August 27, 2008 17:29:55

flaminofrost

Member Since: August 2008 Contribution: 1

RE: Reset User Password

1) Run anti-virus apps and clean registry
2) If that did not resolve issue then reimage HDD
3)
If that still did not resolve issue then replace either HDD or system board needs to be replaced

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September 22, 2008 01:52:37

shashi jadhav

Member Since: September 2008 Contribution: 10

RE: Reset User Password

If you don't remember your old password & you want to change your password you have to ask to your administrator to change your password. Administrator will change your password from Ad server ( Domain Server )

If you know your old password & your environment security & policy can give you rights to cahnge your password yourself just follow this steps - as you press cltr + alt + del windows security prompt will come on your desktop there is one option to change your password.

If you are local user ( not domain user ) so follow this steps - right click on my computer - go to user & groups - click on users - & change password of user which user's password you want to change.

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July 03, 2009 06:53:47

raj_smart

Member Since: July 2009 Contribution: 2

Reset User Password

If its domain environment here all the user accounts info will be maintained with some security Questions add some security measures. By this tool user account can change his/her password every size limit (N0. of days) depends on the Group policy its in the case of Domain Environment we have the facility by the help of browser tool of Organisation.

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