windows password changed

[wjwren]

Came to use my Windows 10 pc today and the password has changed. Only I know the password and it's been the same since around 2015.

Any ideas. Ive tried a different keyboard just in case something was a miss.

[Gary C]

wjwren said:

Came to use my Windows 10 pc today and the password has changed. Only I know the password and it's been the same since around 2015.

Any ideas. Ive tried a different keyboard just in case something was a miss.

Its very unlikely the password has changed, its more likely to be a keyboard problem, seen you have swapped this ! odd.

Use the 'forgot password' option on the windows sign in.

Edited by Gary C on Saturday 16th May 12:13

[FourWheelDrift]

caps lock on?

[Ozone]

Make sure it is definitely your account you are signing in with and not 'Guest' or other

[Dashnine]

Use the username field to check what you are typing as the password is actually what’s being entered, and any characters Or special characters aren’t being swapped around.

[Russ35]

Is it the password it’s expecting and not the PIN number option.

I used to have my pc set to request a PIN number but every now and again it would swap back to a password request.

I just set it to log in automatically in the end as I had some monitoring software running, so was a pain if it rebooted after an update. Should really change it back.

[wjwren]

Ive tried a different keyboard. Still the same issue. This is bizarre

[IanJ9375]

wjwren said:

Ive tried a different keyboard. Still the same issue. This is bizarre

Local account or online account to login?
Have you checked to see what password info you are submitting

[wjwren]

local account and have clicked the button that shows what is being typed

[IanJ9375]

wjwren said:

local account and have clicked the button that shows what is being typed

If you can't get in or in on the admin account then I've got a free copy of this on a bootable USB but I've not had to try it on Win10.
I notice these days it's a paid product so I can't vouch for what it is now but it was brilliant back in the XP and Win7 days on our corporate devices.

https://kon-boot.com/

[snuffy]

Check the password you have entered using the little eye icon next to where you enter it.

Also try the onscreen keyboard, that way if say you have selected somehow another keyboard layout (US instead of UK for example) then that eliminates that.

Check you are logging into the local account and not an MS account. It seems if you enter your MS account details to say access the MS online store, if you don't tick some box or other to say otherwise, Windows will change your next logon to the MS account and not your local account.

Either way, Windows will never change your password.

[snuffy]

Another option is that you have forgotten your password but you think you have it correct. For example, I've had the same landline number for 20 years and every so often, in my head, I transpose the last 2 digits. And then I start doubting I have the number correct if I have just told someone what it is.

And a couple of years ago I went to a cash machine, entered my PIN (that's not changed for years) and the machine said it was wrong. I took the card out and walked away, completely bemused. My PIN was then rattling round inside my head and I was sure I was correct. After an hour or so I suddenly had the correct one pop into my head. I had indeed entered the wrong PIN.

[Garemberg]

Check the language, mine often swaps to american keyboard afetr an update so a special character is different, took me ages the 1st time it happened to figure it out.

[Nimby]

It might be a corrupt user profile.

[wjwren]

Im in. Used a bit of software called lazesoft. Reset it to a blank password.

[IanJ9375]

wjwren said:

Im in. Used a bit of software called lazesoft. Reset it to a blank password.

Great - whilst you're in create yourself an Admin account as a backup.

[Scooobydont]

IanJ9375 said:

Great - whilst you're in create yourself an Admin account as a backup.

Do this, definitely do this.