Purdue University

Changing Your Domain Password
Windows 2000/XP Laptop

Laptop users have two user accounts. One is a local account which is used to login to your laptop and the other is a domain account which is used to login to your office/lab machine. As long as both account passwords are the same, you will not be prompted for your password with each network drive you connect (the “Connect Network Drives” script). You can change your local account password by following steps 1-4 below and then change your domain password by logging into a lab machine and doing the same steps there. You can also change both your local and domain passwords from your laptop (recommended).

1. To complete all steps, your laptop must be connected to the network.
2. Login to Windows, press Ctrl+Alt+ Del , and click on the “Change Password” button.

1. To change your local password, just type in your old password and then type in your new password twice and press OK and you'll be prompted if the new password is accepted.

1. To change your password on the College of Technology (SOT) domain, click the “Change Password” button again and change where it says “Log on to:” from your laptop name to “tech.purdue.edu”. Next, type in your old domain password, your new password twice, and press OK and you'll be prompted if the new password is accepted.

1. Finally, click Cancel, logout of Windows, and log back in. This will verify that you can login to your laptop with the new password and connect your network drives.

   If you have any trouble getting this to work, let us know.