In today’s article, we will look at how to change the password in Windows 7, 8.1, 10, Android, OS X, IOS, IPhone.

Change password in Windows 7:

Windows 7 is by far the most popular operating system, so we’ll start with it.

1.  Open the Start Menu => Control Panel => User Accounts => Change Windows Password.

2… Select your account and click on “Change your password” => in the upper field enter your current password => below write the new password twice and left-click on “Change password”.

The second way to change the password (this method works in all versions of Windows for local users):

1… Press Win + R keys

2… Enter the command Control userpasswords2 and press the Enter key (in the search bar you can enter netplwiz, the result will be the same);

3… Select the account whose password you want to change => at the bottom click “Change Password”.

You can also press Ctrl + Alt + Del and select “Change Password”. You can also change the password through the “Local Users and Groups”, you need to press the Win + R keys, in the window that opens, enter lusrmgr.msc and click OK, select “Users” => on the desired one, right-click => Set password.

Windows 8.1

In Windows 8.x, the password change has been moved to PC Settings.

Select “Change computer settings”.

In “PC Settings” select “Accounts”.

Open in the left column “Login Options”, under the “Password” field, click on “Change”. First you need to enter the current password, then the new one and confirm it.

If you are using a local account, not Microsoft, there are two more simpler ways to change your password.

Windows 10

Go to the Start menu => Settings => Accounts => select “Login Options” => under the Password field select “Change”.

If you are using an account from Microsoft, you will be prompted to enter your existing password.

You may be prompted to send a code to the mailbox to which your Microsoft account is linked. Enter it and click “Next”, after which a letter with a code will be sent to the entered mailbox, which must be entered in the next dialog box.

If you entered the correct code, a window for changing the password will open in front of you, enter the old password, then come up with a new one and confirm it.

If you are using a local account and not Microsoft, there are two ways to change your password even easier. By the way, if you have forgotten your local account password, try to recover it using the instructions: Forgot Windows password ?; How to recover Windows password without installation disc; How to reset Windows password.

Change password on OS X

Changing your OS X password is even easier by going into system preferences and then opening “users and groups”.

Next, select a user and click “Change password”

Enter the old password, the new one and confirm it.

Change Android password

In different versions of Android, the menu may differ, but in many respects everything is similar. In our example, to change the password, you need to go to Settings => Display => Screen lock.

Select “Screen lock method”.

Select “Password” and set a password for the device, or choose any other way to lock your phone.

Change Password on IPhone or iPad

To change the password in IPhone or iPad you need to go to “Settings”, and then click “Touch ID and Password”

If a password is set, you will be asked to enter it, if not, in the next menu you can set or change it.

If you change your password, you must first enter the old password, and then the new one. If you decide to enable a password, enter the password you have created.

In “Touch ID and Password” you can select the “Erase Data” function, if someone enters the wrong password 10 times, then all data from the phone will be erased.

That’s all for today, I hope this article will be useful to you. If there are additions – write comments! Good luck ?

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