Change Password Of Win XP

5 Ways To Change Password Of Users In Windows XP..


Five ways to change the password of users in Windows XP. I’m explaining every way one by one. If you know any other interesting way, please let me know through comments.


Using Ctrl Alt Delete

This is the easiest one in my opinion. If your press Ctrl Alt Del when you are logged onto your Windows XP machine, it will show you the classic security options.

Select change password and change the password of the logged on user.

Note: If the security options does not appear. Task manager shows up instead of the security options. Just go to Start –> Control Panel –> User Accounts –> Change the way Users Log on or off.

Uncheck Use the Welcome Screen. Log off and logon again. Now pressing Ctrl Alt Del will show the security options window.

Using Control Panel

To change your password using Control Panel, go to Start –> Control Panel –> User Accounts

Tip: You can also open control panel by Start –> Run –> control. This will open Control Panel.

Select the user for which you want to change the password and select Change my password.

Please note that you may need appropriate privileges to change the password of another user.

Using Command Prompt

To change the password of a user from the command prompt, go to Run –> cmd.

Command prompt will open. Use the following commands to change the password:

net user username password /domain

Replace username with the original username and password with the new password you want to assign to that user. /domain is optional. If you are in a domain environment, specify the domain name otherwise, if you’re using a local user, leave /domain. If I want to change the password of user Sanix to 12345. I will issue the following command at command prompt:

net user Sanix 12345

It will change the password of the user Sanix to 12345. Please note that if you’re not logged on as an administrator, you will get the following error:

“System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied”

Using Control userpasswords2

To use this classic user management, go to Start –> Run –> control userpasswords2

This will open the classic user accounts management window. Select any user and select reset password.

Using Computer Management Console

To use the computer management console to change the passwords of the users, right click My Computer –> Manage –> Local Users And Groups –> Users

Right click the username for which you want to change the password and select Reset Password.

If you have any other method of changing the password, please let me know through comments. Thanks.

Repair Windows XP

How to Repair Windows XP Without Formatting Your PC..
When our system encounters an error we normally opt to choose to just format our disk and prepare another clean installation of Windows and all of our programs. But engaging to that process of bringing Windows back to life is a pain especially for beginners. But did you know that just repairing your Windows can spare you to those agony. You don’t have to worry about anything it will not wipe anything on your computer like formatting will.


When I diagnose a computer problem formatting has always been my last option. There are still lots of things to do to repair it without the need of formatting your disk. If you suspect that there is a problem with your Windows system files you can simply try to repair it before resorting to formatting.

Here is the step by step instruction to repair your Windows XP installation without formatting your PC.


1. First, insert your bootable Windows XP in your CD/DVD drive.
2. Restart your computer
3. When it ask you to press any key to boot from CD, Press any key on your keyboard. Proceed to step 6.
4. If it doesn’t ask you, then restart your computer again.
5. Go to the BIOS settings of your computer, usually by pressing the delete key or F1, F2, F10 function keys, varies from different computers. Once inside the bios, you need to change the boot options. Change the primary boot option to CDRom. Save and exit.
6. A Blue screen will appear… just like the one you see below.



7. Choose “To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER” Do not choose to Repair yet.
8. It will then display your existing Windows XP copy. Make sure that is selected like you see below.



9. Choose to Repair the selected Windows XP installation by pressing the letter R key on your keyboard.
10. Your windows will run to it’s usual installation process, however, it is a lot quicker this time. But don’t panic it will not wipe your files, it will just repair your system.
11. At some point you will be ask to enter the serial number and restart the computer.
12. When it finishes the setup your files will still be there but the Windows errors you had will not.