# How to change password?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859>\
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**Created:** [February 23, 2000, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859 "2000-02-23T23:48:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2000, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859/1 "2000-02-23T23:48:00Z")

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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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**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859/2 "2000-02-23T23:50:00Z")

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Me neither. Help, please.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859/3 "2000-02-23T23:50:00Z")

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

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**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859/4 "2000-02-23T23:57:00Z")

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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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**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2000, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859/5 "2000-02-24T00:01:00Z")

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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](http://204.95.48.199/ubb/Forum3/HTML/005981.html) in GD.

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2000, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859/6 "2000-02-24T00:01:00Z")

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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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**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2000, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859/7 "2000-02-24T00:06:00Z")

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Thanks Lynn, and Manhattan, for the clarification.

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**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-change-password/859/8 "2000-02-24T00:22:00Z")

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