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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition
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4. Type a password that will be easy to remember.
Choose something like the name of your favorite
vegetable, for example, or your dental floss
brand. To beef up its security level, capitalize
some letters and embed a number in the pass-
word, like Glide2 or Ask4More. (Don’t use
these exact two examples, though, because
they’ve probably been added to every password
cracker’s arsenal by now.)
5. If asked, type that same password into the
Retype Password box, so Windows knows
you’re spelling it correctly.
6. In the Password Hint box, type a hint that
reminds you — and only you — of your
password.
Windows won’t let you type in your exact
password as a hint. You have to be a bit
more creative.
7. Click the Next button, and click Finish.
Suspect you’ve botched something during this
process? Click Cancel to return to Step 3 and
either start over or exit.
After you’ve created the password, Windows 8 begins
asking for your password whenever you sign in.
✓ Passwords are case-sensitive. The words Caviar
and caviar are considered two different
passwords.
✓ Windows also offers to Create a Picture Password
in Step 3, where you drag a finger or mouse over
a photo in a certain sequence. Then, instead of
entering a password, you redraw that sequence
on the sign-in picture. (Picture passwords work
much better on touchscreen tablets than desktop
monitors.)
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