How to remember that password on a test system

Posted on February 9, 2009December 23, 2015 by Dale

I have dozens of Virtual PC/VMware images, and can never remember the password for the things.

A cleverer guy than me (Tony Cinanni) suggested this solution:

Set a “Password Hint”. Works with Vista as well.

To set a password hint:

Start the User Accounts Control Panel applet, which you can find in the Start Menu / Control Panel / User Accounts
Select the account for which you want to add a password hint (in the above shot, you can tell it’s LimitedUser)
Click Change the password.
Enter your password in the two locations and enter your password hint (ie. in my example above, it’s the password), type your password hint, and click Ok.
Done!