Changing a Password
Assigning a password to each user account is good practice because otherwise someone who sits down at the PC can sign in using an unprotected account. However, it’s not enough to just use any old password. You can improve the security of Windows by making each password robust enough that it’s impossible to guess and is impervious to software programs designed to try different password combinations. Such a password is called a strong password. Ideally, you want to build a password that provides maximum protection while still being easy to remember.
Lots of books will suggest absurdly fancy password schemes (we’ve written some of those books ourselves), but you really need to know only three things to create strong-like-a-bull ...
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