Thursday, November 11, 2010

Assign password to Guest account

Windows XP contains a guest account (turned off by default in XP Professional) that has the rather unique distinction of not having a password. Not only does the account not have a password, you can't even set one.

Fortunately, there is an easy way to assign a password to the guest account: To apply a Password to the guest account: Using an account with administrative privileges, go to the command prompt (i.e., Start Menu\Run\ and then type "cmd") and enter the following command:
 'Net user guest password'

Now go to Start Menu\control panel\user accounts and activate the guest account if it is not already. You will be able to assign and change its password.... :)

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