How to change password?

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Can anybody help me out? I can’t work out how to change my password as per the advisory.

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Me neither. Help, please.

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Click on “profile” at the top of the screen.

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Thanks, Arnold. I went through that avenue, but it didn’t work. Now it does.

But that’s with the old password. Do I still need to change it?

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Thanks, people. What I hadn’t realised is that you just type your new password in place of the old one in the profile. I was expecting something like the Windows “type the old one once and the new one twice” routine.

manhattan has also posted an explanation here in GD.

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Click on Profile, enter your old password, and then when you get to your profile screen, delete your old password and enter a new one.

If you can’t remember your old password, click on the “Forget your password?” phrase and it will be emailed to you.

Lynn
For the Straight Dope.

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Thanks Lynn, and Manhattan, for the clarification.

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So lynn are you saying just make up a new password?