Modify your countersign on a managed Windows x device

To synchronize passwords across your devices, go to Use passwords across your devices instead.

Your administrator might synchronize your Google and Windows passwords on your managed Microsoft Windows 10 computer. To change or reset the countersign for your device, you lot update your Google Account countersign. If the post-obit instructions don't work, inquire your administrator to alter or reset your password.

Change your password

Because your Windows countersign is synchronized with your Google Account, yous change your Google password, not your Windows countersign. Just an ambassador can reset your password from the Ctrl+Alt+Delete screen on your device.

  1. Sign in to your Windows 10 device.
  2. Open your Google Account Settings.
    You might demand to sign in.
  3. Nether the Security tab, select Signing in to Google.
  4. Choose Countersign.
    Yous might need to sign in once more.
  5. Enter your new password, and and then select Alter Password.
  6. Lock your Windows ten device.
    In the lesser left corner, click Start and thenyour user iconand then Lock.
  7. In the bottom left, click your account proper name.
  8. When prompted, enter your new password.

Reset a forgotten password

Because your Windows countersign is synchronized with your Google Business relationship, you demand to reset your Google password.

  1. Choose an option:
    • On your Windows device, at the lesser left of your sign-in screen, click Add together Work Account.
    • If y'all have a Windows profile in Active Directory, click your existing account or, if you lot don't see your account, click Other Account.
  2. Enter your email accost and click Next.
  3. Click Forgot Countersign.
  4. Follow the instructions to reset your password.

Afterward y'all consummate the steps to reset your password, y'all're automatically signed in to Windows.


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