Resetting Your Password

Few things are more maddening than trying repeatedly to log on, only to realize that you’ve forgotten your password! If this happens, you have two choices: You can reset the password (or, if you’re a member of the Standard group, you can ask an Administrator to reset it for you), which means that you’ll lose all your settings and any security credentials and certificates; or you can use your Password Reset disk or USB storage device to log on and reset your password and save all your settings and credentials. The latter is obviously the better choice, so you should create a Password Reset disk while you still remember your password.

Create and Use a Password Reset Disk

  1. Insert a disk or USB storage device into your computer, ...

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