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For other kinds of account changes, you need to venture into the old-fashioned Control Panel. Here’s how to get to the options in the Control Panel:

1 Click or tap the search icon on the taskbar and type Control Panel.

2 In the list of search results, choose Control Panel.The Control Panel appears.

3 Choose User Accounts, and then choose User Accounts again. Click or tap Manage Another Account.A list of all accounts on the computer appears.

4 Click or tap the account you want to change.Windows 11 presents you with several options, as shown in Figure 4-10.

FIGURE 4-10: Maintain another user’s account.

Here’s what the available options entail:

 Change the Account Name: This option appears only for local accounts. (It’d be problematic if Windows 11 let you change someone else’s Microsoft account.) Selecting this option modifies the name displayed on the sign-in screen and the Start menu while leaving all other settings intact. Use this option if you want to change only the name on the account — for example, if Little Bill wants to be called Sir William.

 Create/Change a Password: Again, this option appears only for local accounts. (Create appears if the account doesn’t have a password; Change appears if the account already has a password.) If you create a password for the chosen user, Windows 11 requires a password to log in with that user account. You can’t get past the sign-in screen (using that account) without it. This setting is weird because you can change it for other people. You can force Bill to use a password when none was required before, you can change Bill’s password, or you can even make it blank. Passwords are cAse SenSitive — you must enter the password, with uppercase and lowercase letters, precisely the way it was originally typed. If you can’t get the computer to recognize your password, make sure that the Caps Lock setting is off. That’s the number-one source of login frustration. Much has been written about the importance of choosing a secure password, mixing uppercase and lowercase letters with punctuation marks, ensuring that you have a long password, and so on. I have only two admonitions: First, don’t write your password on a yellow sticky note attached to your monitor. Second, don’t use the easily guessed passwords that the Conficker worm employed to crack millions of systems, as listed in Table 4-1. Good advice from a friend: Create a simple sentence you can remember and swap out some letters for numbers (G00dGr1efTerry), or think of a sentence and use only the first letters! (toasaoutfl!) Of course, using a PIN, a Windows Hello mugshot, a fingerprint, or an iris scan makes even more sense.

 Change the Account Type: You can use this option to change accounts from administrator to standard and back again.

 Delete the Account: Get rid of the account, if you’re that bold (or mad, in all senses of the term). If you’re deleting a Windows 11 account, the account itself still lives — it just won’t be permitted to log in to this computer. Windows offers to keep copies of the deleted account’s Documents folder and desktop, but warns you quite sternly and correctly that if you snuff the account, you rip out all the email messages, user files, and other settings that belong to the user — definitely not a good way to make friends. Oh, and you can’t delete your own account, of course, so this option won’t appear if your PC has only one account.

 Manage Another Account: Displays the list of accounts so you can choose another user and modify the user's account using the options just described.

TABLE 4-1 Most Frequently Used Passwords^*

Most Frequently Used Passwords
000	0000	00000	0000000	00000000	0987654321
111	1111	11111	111111	1111111	11111111
123	123123	12321	123321	1234	12345
123456	1234567	12345678	123456789	1234567890	1234abcd
1234qwer	123abc	123asd	123qwe	1q2w3e	222
2222	22222	222222	2222222	22222222	321
333	3333	33333	333333	3333333	33333333
4321	444	4444	44444	444444	4444444
44444444	54321	555	5555	55555	555555
5555555	55555555	654321	666	6666	66666
666666	6666666	66666666	7654321	777	7777
77777	777777	7777777	77777777	87654321	888
8888	88888	888888	8888888	88888888	987654321
999	9999	99999	999999	9999999	99999999
a1b2c3	aaa	aaaa	aaaaa	abc123	academia
access	account	Admin	admin	admin1	admin12
admin123	adminadmin	administrator	anything	asddsa	asdfgh
asdsa	asdzxc	backup	boss123	business	campus
changeme	cluster	codename	codeword	coffee	computer
controller	cookie	customer	database	default	desktop
domain	example	exchange	explorer	file	files
foo	foobar	foofoo	forever	freedom	f**k
games	home	home123	ihavenopass	Internet	internet
intranet	job	killer	letitbe	letmein	login
Login	lotus	love123	manager	market	money
monitor	mypass	mypassword	mypc123	nimda	nobody
nopass	nopassword	nothing	office	oracle	owner
pass	pass1	pass12	pass123	passwd	password
Password	password1	password12	password123	private	public
pw123	q1w2e3	qazwsx	qazwsxedc	qqq	qqqq
qqqqq	qwe123	qweasd	qweasdzxc	qweewq	qwerty
qwewq	root	root123	rootroot	sample	secret
secure	security	server	shadow	share	sql
student	super	superuser	supervisor	system	temp
temp123	temporary	temptemp	test	test123	testtest
unknown	web	windows	work	work123	xxx
xxxx	xxxxx	zxccxz	zxcvb	zxcvbn	zxcxz
zzz	zzzz	Zzzzz

^* From the Conficker worm, bowdlerized with an asterisk (*) as a fig leaf