[Easily Solved] How to Put A Password on A Laptop

Why need to set a password on a laptop?

A laptop password can prevent strangers from logging into your laptop, this means no one can get into your laptop without password. If you don’t want to face the risk of losing your private data, it’s necessary to set a password on a laptop.

How to put a password on a laptop? If you have no method to perform it, you can refer to the next part, we will share 3 methods to set a password on a laptop.

How to put a password on a laptop

When you are afraid of being stolen the personal data on your PC, putting a password for your laptop can be a good choice. Don’t know how to put password on PC? Here, you can learn 3 methods to do it.  

▶ Method 1. Put a password on your PC via Control Panel

Control Panel allows the users to check for some settings on the laptop, and the users can do some operations, such as adding/deleting software, changing the PC interface, etc. Besides, you can create a password for it. Here are the steps on how to put a password on a Dell laptop and others.

Step 1. Click “Windows” and input “Control Panel” in the task bar, then press “Enter” to open the Control Panel.

Step 2. Choose the “Large icons” to change the signs, then find out and select “User Accounts”.

Step 3. In a new window, click “Create a password”.

Step 4. Then type a password and click “Create password”.

 ▶ Method 2. Set a laptop password using Computer Management

Computer Management can also be used to set a new password for your laptop. The detailed steps are as below.

Step 1. Right-click on “This PC” in the main PC interface, the click “Manage”.

Step 2. In the popped window, click “Local Users and Groups” and right-click on the “Users” option, then click “New user”.

Step 3. Then you can set a new account and password, click “OK” to set the input password.

 ▶ Method 3. Create a laptop password on Settings

Another way to set a laptop password is the Windows Settings. It provides a specialized tab about PC account, you can set the PIN or password on it. Let’s see how to put a password on a laptop in Windows 10.

Step 1. Press the “Windows” key, then click “Settings”. In the Windows Settings interface, click the “Accounts” option.

Step 2. Click “Sign-in options” and “Add” under the Password option in turn.

Step 3. In a blue interface, set a new password and hint, click “Next”. Then you can successfully create a password.

Precaution: Create a password reset disk

Sometimes, you may lose the password for different reasons, such as don’t use the PC for a long time, your family members changed it without telling you, etc. So, to quickly unlock your PC when the password is wrong, you’d better create a password reset disk in advance.

Note: You need to prepare an empty USB before creating a password reset disk.

Step 1. Plug the target USB into your laptop and check whether it can be detected. Then type “Control Panel” and open it, then click “User Accounts” and “Create a password reset disk” in order. The Forgotten Password Wizard will pop out.

Step 2. In the new window, select the target USB and click “Next”.

Step 3. Then type your newly created password and click “Next”.

Step 4. When you see the following interface, click “Next”. The password reset disk is already created, then you can use it to reset the password when you lose the current password.

Bonus reading: How can you reset the lost laptop password?

In the previous content, you may have knew how to put a password on a laptop. Besides, we also share the method for you to prevent being refused to get into your PC when you lose the password. If you have already forgotten the password and there is no password reset disk, what can you do to open your laptop?

AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional is a password reset expert on Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP. In the beautiful interface, you can create a bootable USB and then reset the missing password with it in Windows PE. The created USB can be used in other PC to reset the password.

Besides, if you want to manage your disk, this tool can also be useful with many advanced features, like Allocate Free Space, Move applications to another drive, Covert dynamic disk to basic, Convert MBR to GPT, etc.

Step 1. Connect the prepared USB with another working laptop, download and install AOMEI Partition Assistant, then select “Reset Password”.

Step 2. The popped window will note to create a bootable USB, click “Next”.

Step 3. Choose the target USB boot device and click “Proceed”.

Step 4. You need to pay attention that all data on the target USB will be removed, click “Yes”.

Step 5. Wait patiently, this tool will create the password reset USB, click “Finish”.

Step 6. Take out the USB and insert it into the locked laptop, then restart the PC. You’ll change the boot drive, boot the PC from the target USB and choose the OS, click “Next”.

Step 7. Select the target account and tick “Reset Account password”, click “Next”.

Step 8. Input a new password, click “Yes”.  

Note: To reset the password on Windows Server laptop, you should turn to the Server Version.

Final word

When you want to know how to put a password on a laptop, this post is useful for you. We provided three methods for you to create a new password. And as supplement material, we also show you how to create a password reset disk. When you have lose the password, you can also find the recommended AOMEI Partition Assistant to reset it.