All I want to do is see my existing password!

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All I want to do is see my existing password!

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Setting up a new Win 8 laptop for my daughter. I set a password, and then MS asked me to set up an MS account password to log in. Did that. I also set it up so no password is required to log onto the LT.
Awhile back in the installation of apps, I could see my main pc from the LT and copied files across, but not now. Now I am trying to access the darn thing on my network from another computer, but the password on the laptop won't be accepted. I wrote the 2 passwords down as I set them. I assume that it is the local laptop password that is required for network access, but neither work. So, although I can see the LT on the network, I cannot get onto it from there. I am assuming that I have the local pword wrong, but I am not sure how to check. As I can log onto the actual LT, can I get to see what the password is while on the actual machine?
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As far as I know, you cannot view the login password, even when logged in. You should be able to set a new one from an administrator account.
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I have Googled and Googled, but I cannot find a way to change or set up a new password on my computer. That is the local machine password, NOT the MS account password.
Every web page I was directed to is about changing the MS account password. Gets pretty frustrating after awhile.
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I used 'Create a password reset disk'. To do this I had to enter the local password. I tried the local the one I set up, but it wasn't accepted. So I tried the MS account password - it was accepted. Strange, it seems that setting a MS account pword overwrites the local one. So I have solved the password problem - well maybe not!
When trying to access the laptop from the network, I am asked for a password. I have tried both passwords and they are both rejected - which led me to believe that I had the wrong pword in the first place.
So I am really going around in circles here. Anyone have any idea how to get the network to recognize a correct laptop pword?
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You mentioned "I also set it up so no password is required to log onto the LT". Perhaps that is the problem...
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My other laptops are similarly set up and I can see and access them and have been able to for years. So It would seem that that isn't the problem. this one still needed a pword when awakening from sleep (since fixed) - still had the prob then.
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Let's see if one of our local network experts has a suggestion; I'm out of my depth here...
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What is a LT?

Since Vista, the networking likes to have user accounts with passwords.
A nice trick is to have the same user name and same password on ALL machines.
This account does not need to be logged into, just fully setup on the machine.
I have one set up on all of my machines as such, it is a Admin group member and it is also my back door to the system if my normal account get clobbered.

If any of these machines is a XP machine, then there are problems in it remembering the password.
I am so far behind, I think I am First :evilgrin:
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:whisper: LT = Laptop.
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Sensible idea Dave.
I have been doing that on my 3 computers for years. But something doesn't gel having the user name = Peter on my daughter Jo's LT :smile:
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Could this be an issue with username, rather than password? You need to have both right to successfully log in.

How are you connecting? Do you specify a username, or do you have the same username on both computers?
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Peter Kinross wrote:Sensible idea Dave.
I have been doing that on my 3 computers for years. But something doesn't gel having the user name = Peter on my daughter Jo's LT :smile:
That is why I use an name such as "Zorro" the "masked outlaw who defends the commoners and indigenous peoples of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains". Or even use "Backdoor"!
I am so far behind, I think I am First :evilgrin:
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