Passwords and User Accounts
During Windows XP
installation you enter a password for the Administrator account.
When installation completes you are prompted to create additional
user accounts. These user accounts are separate and apart from the
Administrator account as evidenced if you try and use
“Administrator” as a choice during installation. XP will deny its
use and require you to enter a different user name. After these user
names (at least one) have been entered XP continues to load. By
default, these additional user accounts are not password protected.
After the process is completed, you have the option of password
protecting these additional accounts. To set passwords for these
additional user accounts:
[Start] [Control
Panel] [User Accounts]
Select the user you wish to password protect.
The following screen will open.
To create the
password for the “TEG Test Geek Admin” account in the example above,
select the [Create A Password] option. The screen below will open.
Read the admonition
about losing certain stored items at the top, then complete the
password entry and confirmation fields. Passwords are case
sensitive. If you want to add a password hint, enter it in the last
box and then click [Create Password].
When you select the
user account at the logon screen a prompt for the password will
appear. If you have forgotten the password, click the question mark
(?) and the password hint you entered will appear. Type the password
(case sensitive) and you will be logged into XP. The [User Account]
screen shown above can also be used to change or remove passwords
and to prevent a forgotten password by creating password reset disks
as discussed below.
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