Changing Your Password in Windows 9x and Exchange

The way that you login to Windows or Exchange will determine how you change your password. If you login like Figure 1, you are logging into the CAMPUS domain and you will follow the first set of instructions (Domain Logins). If you login to Exchange when you start Outlook as in Figure 2, then you will follow the second set of instructions (Exchange Logins) to change your password.

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Domain Logins

To change your password from the Start Menu select Start, Settings, Control Panel. The Control Panel (Figure 3) will display. Double click on the Passwords icon to open the Passwords Properties dialog box (Figure 4). Click on the Change Other Passwords button in the Passwords Properties dialog box.

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The Select Password dialog box (Figure 5) will display. Click to highlight Microsoft Networking then click on the Change… button, the Change Windows Password dialog box will now display (Figure 6). In the Old password text box enter your password. In the New password text box enter your new password and then enter it again in the Confirm new password text box to verify you typed your new password in correctly. For security it is best to choose a password that is not easy to guess and contains upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. Click on the OK button to change your password. You should get a dialog box indicating a successful password change, click on OK to clear this box.

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Exchange Logins

When starting Microsoft Outlook 2000 you will see a dialog box as in Figure 7. Enter your username in the User Name text box. Enter campus in the Domain Name text box and your password in the Password text box. Click on the Change Password… button to open the Change Windows NT Password dialog box (Figure 8).

Enter the information in each text box as required. The Domain is campus and the Exchange Server is dhems01. In the Old Password text box enter your password. In the New Password text box enter your new password and then enter it again in the Confirm New Password text box to verify you typed your new password in correctly. For security it is best to choose a password that is not easy to guess and contains upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. Click on the OK button to change your password. You should get a dialog box indicating a successful password change; click on OK to clear this box and Outlook 2000 will start.

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Notes

The “domain” is the network that you are logging into for your e-mail. The name of our domain is “campus” which contains all the campus wide resources for the Exchange e-mail system. The name of the server that houses e-mail is ”dhems01” (Dominguez Hills Exchange Mail Server 01).

When you login to Windows 9x and you enter your Username, Domain and Password and then click on OK you may receive another dialog box asking for a password again. This is a separate password for your local PC as opposed to the “domain” password. To eliminate this second password do the following. Click on Start, Find, Files or Folders. In the Named text box enter *.pwl and in the Look in text box make sure that only the C: drive is selected. Click on the Find Now button and the PWL files will appear (Figure 9). You can click to highlight and then press the <Delete> key to remove these files. The next time you login you will be asked for this password once again, use your current password and you will not be asked to enter this password again.

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