Windows XP: How to create a password for the invisible administratoraccount

Windows XP create an administrator account by default which is invisible. This administrator account is not password protected. How to protect this account with a password?

Steps to password protect the administrator account.

Step 1.
If you are currently logged on to your computer, click Start, and then click Log Off.



Step 2.
On the “Welcome screen”, press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice on your keyboard by holding down both the CTRL and ALT keys and then pressing DELETE.

Step 3.
The “Log On to Windows” dialog box appears. In the “User name” box, type “Administrator”. Leave the “Password” box blank if you have not assigned a password. Click OK.


Step 4.

Open the entry “User Accounts” in the control panel. Click on the icon “Administrator” and select “Create a password”.

Step 5.

In the following dialog, specify a password for the “Administrator” account. Click “Create Password”.


It is important to create a strong but easily memorable password. A strong password should includes a combination of letters (small and capitals), numbers and special characters, and at least eight characters long.

How to create a secure, memorable PIN number

Usually people will use their existing numbers, such as telephone number, house number, birth date or social security number as their PIN number for banking. These numbers are easy to remember, nevertheless easy to be broken.

This article will give an idea on how to create a secure, but memorable PIN number.

How to create the PIN number

The technique is so simple. You need to create your own simple algorithm to generate the PIN number, based on the number that you already memorized. In case you forget the PIN number, it can always be generate easily using the algorithm.

An example of algorithm

Let say you want to generate a PIN that consists of six digits.

1. First create the secret number. Think of a 3 digits number that you won’t forget. For example, if you are born in 1965, you can use 965 as the secret number.


2. Use your algorithm to create the PIN number.
   Example: Add the secret number in step 1 with the number one, and multiply it back to itself.
   965 * (965 +  1) = 932190


3. Therefore, your PIN number is 932190.

Different PIN number for different bank

Using this technique, you will have a PIN number that cannot easily be guessed by others. But, what if you want different PIN number for different bank?

You can also create different PIN number for different bank, using the same algorithm and secret number.

Just associate bank1 with 1, bank2 with 2, and bank3 with 3. Then, you can replace the number one in your algorithm with two for bank2 and three for bank3.

Conclusion

This article shows on how to create PIN numbers from one secret number and an algorithm. Using this technique you will only need to remember the secret number, the algorithm and the bank association number.

Solid but easy to memorized password

Composing a solid password is easy. A combination of alphanumeric and symbols, creates one. However, this kind of password is not human friendly. It is usually hard to memorize. Moreover, since a good practice is to have different password for different purposes, it will became more trouble for human.

To create an easy to memorize password, you can use the acronyms of your favourite phrase of music, poetry, quote, or simple sentences. For example, 'Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.' by Albert Einstein could be abreviated as 'measap,bns.'. Or, you can use a combination of small and capital letters such as 'mEaSaP,bNS.'

Now, you have a strong, but, easy to memorize password. However, what about the rule that you should not use the same password for everything. Fortunately, there is a simple trick to use. For example, 'measapbns' is the base password. To use it in Facebook, you can for example precede the base password with 'FB'. So, your password for Facebook would be 'FBmeasapbns' or 'FB-measapbns'.

The technique presented in this article is just a guide, for you to create your own technique in creating a solid but, easy to memorize password. Maybe you can come out with a simpler but better technique, such as replacing some letters with numbers, such as i with 1, or o with 0.

Good luck.

How to reset WordPress admin password

One morning, you figured out that you can't log in to your blog admin panel. Perhaps, you had forgotten the password, or someone must have messed up with your blog. You can retrieve the lost password by going to the WordPress Log In page, and click on the 'Lost your password?' link. On the next page, enter the admin username or E-mail, and click 'Get New Password', as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Retrieve password

A new password will be sent to the E-mail that you specified during the registration process.

If the above method fails. You can also reset the password using the phpMyAdmin tool. Open the phpMyAdmin tool via cPanel. Once you are in phpMyadmin, select your WordPress database, from the left menu. Next click on the SQL tab, which is located at the top. Paste the SQL code below, inside the text area. Replace 'your new password' with the new password, and 'the admin username', with the existing username of the admin account. Please refer to Figure 2.

UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( 'your new password' )
WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = "the admin username";

Figure 2: Reset admin password

I hope that this article will benefit those who lost their blog password. Good luck.

How to create an easy to remember, hard to break password

Choosing a secure password is easy. What you need is a combination of a alphabet in upper and lower cases, numbers, and symbols, and the most important is, it is a nonsense string (not in the dictionary). An example of good password is iH2c&1W. However, can you memorize it (or, a multiple of it)?

A good practice is to have a unique password for each application that you use. Do not share one password for everything. Once the password is revealed, the other person could access to all your applications. Once again, how can you memorize a multiple of nonsense like iH2c&1W.

One way to create the password is by using events or situations, that is relevant and important to you. For example, let say that you have 2 cars and 1 wife. One possible password that could be generated from this situation is iH2c&1W, using the first letter of each word, from the string "i have 2 cars and 1 wife".

If you find that it is still hard to remember passwords that are generated using this technique, perhaps you need a password manager. A password manager is an application that use a single password to access all your passwords. Some of password manager could also generate a good password for you. However, you don't have to memorize those passwords, since it is secured inside the password manager. You only need one password to access all your other passwords

As a conclusion, a secure password should be in the form of random alphanumeric and symbols. A password should be unique for each application. To create a password that is easy for you to remember, one possible solution is to generate it based on the events or situation that is related and important to you. The last resort is to use a password manager.

Password protect PowerPoint 2007

This tutorial is about how to protect PowerPoint 2007 with a password.

To password protect a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 file,

1. Click on the Microsoft Office Button.


2. Click Save As.


3. Click Tools.


4. Click General Options.


5. Enter the password to open or modify (one or both).


6. Click OK.


7. When prompted, retype your passwords to confirm them, and click OK.


8. Click Save.

Password protect Excel 2007

To password protect a Microsoft Excel 2007 file,

1. Click on the Microsoft Office Button.
2. Click Save As.
3. Click Tools.
4. Click General Options.
5. Enter the password to open or modify (one or both).
6. Click OK.
7. When prompted, retype your passwords to confirm them, and click OK.
8. Click Save.

Password protect Word 2007

This is a simple technique on how to protect a Microsoft Word 2007 file with a password.

To password protect a Microsoft Word 2007 file,

1. Click on the Microsoft Office Button.


2. Click Save As.


3. Click Tools.


4. Click General Options.


5. Enter the password to open or modify (one or both).


6. Click OK.


7. When prompted, retype your passwords to confirm them, and click OK.


8. Click Save.