# Changing Expired Passwords

For security reasons, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">your password is set to expire the first time you log in and then about every 180 or so days</span>. When prompted, change the password immediately, lest it expires and locks you out of the network.

**If you get locked out**, you will have to go to IT Services, room 293, with your ID card for assistance or you can visit [https://sspr.mlc-wels.edu](https://sspr.mlc-wels.edu) from any other device and retrieve your password using your Personal E-mail address as listed on Portal.

#### Instructions

1. A **Confirm… dialog box** will appear when your password has expired. Even though it says, Do you want to change your password? and allows a Yes or No, the result of continually saying No is a locked account.
2. Therefore, choose **Yes**.
3. A **Change Password** window will appear.
4. **Enter a new password**. Use a minimum of 5 characters (anything on the keyboard). Use something your friends won’t guess, but you will remember. Previously used passwords cannot be used again.
5. In the next box **retype the new password**.
6. Press **Enter** or click on **OK**.
7. After a short delay, your desktop window should appear.