How to set strong a Windows password to protect your computer

What is a strong Windows password?

How to set a strong Windows password?

It is easy for you to create a Windows password. Firstly, you need to create a Windows user account and then set password for it. Whether your operating system is Windows 7, Vista or XP, the steps to create a Windows password are similar. The following are steps to create a Windows password on Win XP. Please keep your Windows login password in mind or else you have to recover it then.

1. Click 'Start' -> 'Control Panel' -> 'User Accounts'.
2. In the pick an account to change area of the User Accounts window, click 'Create a new account'.
Note: If you have created a Windows account, you can ignore this step and go to step 5 to create a Windows password directly.
3. Type your user name for the account, and then click 'Next'.
4. Select your account type and click 'Create account' to finish your operation. And now the user account is successfully created.
5. Click the account you just created.
6. Click 'Create a new password'.
7. Type into your Windows password and choose a password hint, and then click 'Create Password'.
8. Now that your Windows XP account has a password setup, you must use this password to log on to Windows XP from this point forward.

And if your Windows password is hard to get remembered, we here highly recommended you to use a USB flash drive or CD to create a password reset disk. Whenever you forgot Windows login password, you can easily reset your forgotten Windows password with the password reset disk.

Forgot Windows password, what can you do?

If you forgot Windows password, what can you do to bypass the lost Windows password? Take it easy, it's no need for you to worry about when you forgot Windows login password, for here are several things we can do to solve this problem.

Method 1: Try to remember your password with the help of password hint.

No matter what Windows you are using, the created password hint will help you recover your forgotten Windows password. If you set your password hint carefully, I believe you can recall the lost Windows login password.

Method 2: Reset forgotten Windows password with password reset disk.

A password reset disk is helpful when you forgot Windows login password. It just takes you a few seconds to get back in computer with it. It is recognized as the simplest and safest way to bypass the lost Windows password. Well, it could only worked on the basis that you have created a password reset disk already.

Method 3: Remove lost Windows password with third party software.

There are many Windows password recovery tools which allow you to burn a bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive to remove lost or forgotten Windows password. Windows Password Reset is one of the best Windows password recovery tool. It provides you 3 different editions to reset Windows local password and Domain password with CD/DVD or USB flash drive.

Method 4: Reinstall your computer to log on your computer again.

It will cost you much time to reinstall computer while it will overwrite your data on hard disk. And it is also troublesome for you to down and reinstall your lost applications after reinstalling. It is the last choice for you when you forgot Windows password.