VISTA password

[David]

Hi

I have a question regarding VISTA passwords which I hope I can get answered
here?

I installed Vista and towards the end of the installation, I was prompted to
enter a username and password. I entered my name but declined to choose a
password at that time.

I am the only users and as such, I am 'the' Administrator.

Now that Vista appears to be running reasonably well, I decided to create a
password so I wentt to User Accounts (via control panel) and clicked on
"Create a password for your account". I entered and confirmed my password
and then chose a 'password hint' and then clicked on "Create password" and
got a message saying the "Windows cannot change the password".

What's going on here? There is not password to change.

From what I have read in this newsgroup, a lot of users are having problems
with passwords for various different reasons, but I would like to find out
why I am being informed that Windows can't change the password when there is
no password to change. Can any users please advise on what needs to be
done.

Regards

Dave

 

[Guest]

have you tried loging on administrator in safe mode, and changing the
password on your user account that way?

 

[Guest]

Hi David,

Try the following:

Press the Windows Logo Key and 'r'. This should give you the Run window.
Type lusrmgr.msc and press Enter. Click Continue if prompted for permission.

In Local Users and Groups, click Users, then on the right, double click the
account you are using.

Make sure there is no checkmark in "User cannot change password". If there
is, remove it and click OK, then close the Local Users and Groups window.

You should now be able to change your password.

If there was no checkmark, then I'm out of ideas.

Regards,

Marc