How to Change your Windows Password

Created by Andy Humphrys, Modified on Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 01:38 PM by Andy Humphrys

NOTE: If you have a gordoncounty.org email address, changing your computer/Windows password will also update your email password to be identical. After changing the computer password you will need to sign back into Google/GSuite with the new password and update your mobile devices as well.

To Change your password Press and Hold CTRL+ALT+DEL keys for 1 second and release

your screen will turn blue and you will be presented with the below options. Click Change a password

Next you will see the change a password screen. Your user name should already be enters but you will need to enter your current password followed by your new password and your new password again to confirm. then hit enter.

If your new password is acceptable you will see a message simular to the one below. Click ok and you will be returned to windows.

DONT FORGET about the NOTE at the top of this page

Password Requirements

Minimum Password Length 8 characters

Upcase and lower case

Passwords must meet complexity requirements policy setting determines whether passwords must meet a series of guidelines that are considered important for a strong password. Enabling this policy setting requires passwords to meet the following requirements:

Passwords may not contain the user's samAccountName (Account Name) value or entire displayName (Full Name value). Both checks are not case sensitive.
The samAccountName is checked in its entirety only to determine whether it is part of the password. If the samAccountName is less than three characters long, this check is skipped. The displayName is parsed for delimiters: commas, periods, dashes or hyphens, underscores, spaces, pound signs, and tabs. If any of these delimiters are found, the displayName is split and all parsed sections (tokens) are confirmed to not be included in the password. Tokens that are less than three characters are ignored, and substrings of the tokens are not checked. For example, the name "Erin M. Hagens" is split into three tokens: "Erin", "M", and "Hagens". Because the second token is only one character long, it is ignored. Therefore, this user could not have a password that included either "erin" or "hagens" as a substring anywhere in the password.
The password contains characters from three of the following categories:
- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/) Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.