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Change Windows password
I'm hoping someone can help me.
I have a Windows Me computer that is joined to a WIndows 2000 domain. I can log on to the domain as a regular domain user, and access network shares. But right after I log on to the domain using domain credentials, I'm prompted for a Windows password. I don't know what the password is, so I just click Cancel, and my Desktop then comes up. I'd like to change the password, but I don't know the old Windows password to be able to change to a new one. Is there any way to either reset the old password, or stop the prompting for the Windows password? Thanks to anyone who can help me. |
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Change Windows password
Donna,
See MS KB 152104 - "How to Prevent a Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me Logon Prompt at Startup" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=152104). Basically you need to change to using Windows Logon in Control Panel | Network. Then when you next log on don't enter a password (leave blank) and click OK. If you've already allocated a password, logon and then delete or better rename the password file in the Windows folder - this is a file whose name is your logon name with a pwl extension. Don't click Cancel or Escape as this will mean that you don't log on and are instead what is called the Default User which means you won't be able to save passwords and have access to certain features. -- Mike Maltby Donna wrote: I'm hoping someone can help me. I have a Windows Me computer that is joined to a WIndows 2000 domain. I can log on to the domain as a regular domain user, and access network shares. But right after I log on to the domain using domain credentials, I'm prompted for a Windows password. I don't know what the password is, so I just click Cancel, and my Desktop then comes up. I'd like to change the password, but I don't know the old Windows password to be able to change to a new one. Is there any way to either reset the old password, or stop the prompting for the Windows password? Thanks to anyone who can help me. |
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Change Windows password
Thanks Mike, but I still have a problem.
The domain user account is getting locked out every few hours. I think it may be because of the Windows Me computer trying to access a share with cached network credentials. When I click on Map Network Drive, and I click the drop-down box for previously mapped shares, I see a share which is no longer a mapped drive. I can't see a way to delete that share as a choice in the drop down list, and I think that I should delete it, because maybe there are some incorrect cached credentials stored somewhere within Windows Me, trying to map that drive. Where can I find where Windows Me stores cached credentials, to purge or delete the cache? |
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