Windows password

[mickg]

I would like to connect to other windows computers but I can't remember original password for the other PC's.

Did a quick search =  find the computer username and password in Windows 11, a quick important note: Windows makes it easy to locate your username, but it will never display your current sign-in password in plain text for security reasons. If you forget your password, you’ll need to use approved recovery methods only.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Which often involve giving a phone number...

[king1]

Can you currently log into these other computers?

[mickg]

Yes I can log in all the other PC's I would just like to share or move files etc

[king1]

are you typing in a pass word to log into these PCs?

if not, it probably isn't working because anonymous network sharing is generally not advised and turned off by default
if you do, then that password is the one to use. The username to use accessing a network share is the profile user name, from c:\users\XYZ

There can be a situation where there is a password but it logs in automatically, probably best way to find out if that is the case is to go into the user settings and start to set a new password on the account, it will ask for the current password if there is one...

IF there is a password and we don't know what it is, there are a couple of tools we can use to reset it depending on whether it is a MS a/c or local account. But another option might be to set up a seperate user profile under users -> other users ( standard user account should be fine), and set a password on that, and use that to access the files in question. This method will not allow accessing files in the original user profile, they would have to be on a secondary drive or c:\ root or in the public user profile... or shifted into one of these locations...

[king1]

also you could confirm if these are local accounts or microsoft accounts (signed in using your ms account). the user settings will tell you that one as well...