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]]> Whether you are on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or some other recent version of the Windows NT system you have probably gotten into a situation where you wanted to change your password but did not have a means of issuing a remote Ctl-Alt-Del to bring up the password change dialogue or, for one reason or another, you need to make a password change via the command line.  In UNIX this is the normal mode of password changes but in Windows this is a poorly known skill but an important one.  This is especially important on Windows 2003 machines as the normal password management dialogues may not exist.

To change your password simply:

net user username password

So for me that might be “net user scott mysecretpassword” and voila, password changed.  Very, very handy.

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