Create a sign-in password

Yes, I am here to be a pest yet again....

Before I took the computer to the repair shop, I deleted the password for signing in. I want to create a new sign-in password, and to find out how to do that, I have gone to myriad sites, not a one of which actually told me how to do this. Some sent me to either non-existent information or incorrect information.

I thought that this would be simple; for me, it simply was not simple, so receiving the information that would accomplish my task would obviously be appreciated.

The computer is linked to your Microsoft account.
The Microsoft email account is usually the same for login on the computer.
Just go to outlook.com on a browser and login. Then go to your settings, password, and create a new password.
Use this new password to log in on the computer

Dannydet said:

The computer is linked to your Microsoft account.
The Microsoft email account is usually the same for login on the computer.
Just go to outlook.com on a browser and login. Then go to your settings, password, and create a new password.
Use this new password to log in on the computer

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Gosh, I had to use all my energy to mark your reply as "Like....

Thank, of course.

I don't recall knowing that Outlook.com exists, but I now know that it is confusing, as it clearly knows about me, but I don't see settings option, and it claims that it does not know about my MS account. I logged on to the latter, but that did not have any evident effect on Outlook. What am I doing wrong? (Please confine your reply to Outlook, otherwise this thread will take entirely too much forum space.)

In the past, I had to create a new log-on password perhaps twice, which was simple, but things change, that I understand.

Sorry I gave you the wrong link /address....

Dannydet said:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/email-and-calendar-software-microsoft-outlook

Sorry I gave you the wrong link /address....

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I see that you have already used your monthly allowance of wrong link postings.

I wondered if looking at the help files for Firefox would help, but the information is for those who use Firefox to store all of their passwords. I will pursue your corrected link, thanks.

Not Myself said:

I see that you have already used your monthly allowance of wrong link postings.

I wondered if looking at the help files for Firefox would help, but the information is for those who use Firefox to store all of their passwords. I will pursue your corrected link, thanks.

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It is easy, once you find the actual instructions in place of the collection of wrongness on-line:

1. Click on "Settings."

2. C;lick on "Accounts."

3. Select "Sign-in Options."

4. Choose "Password," at which point, unless you can figure out how to add a password, that is as far as you can go.

As soon as I did that, I recognized the form for filling in and saving your password, something I have had to do a few times. The most recent was perhaps a year ago, when, as my computer was crashing regularly, it was shipped to the Dell repair station (or whatever its name is.) There the processor was replaced and the computer was promptly returned.

With my having no knowledge of such arcane matters, I was nonetheless immediately skeptical, a feeling reinforced when the crashes started a few days latter. This time, there were a few unhappy discussions and remote sessions which wasted my time by not finding any clues. Finally, a Dell supervisor called me and told me that he was assigning one of his group of his three finest technicians.

He started by doing something that seemed logical (and again, I don't know how to read such,) and was soon able to find the culprit, the nVidia video card driver. That replaced, the crashes stopped, and I soon found a nifty nVidia program, which has many functions, only one of which matters to me, as it will notify me if there is a driver update.