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This post will show you how to notify Windows about service account password change using command line.

Lets say we have service named “Symantec Antivirus” and it runs as local user account named “testuser” (Log On As) . For security purposes we changed password for this user to “NewPassword“. To notify “Symantec Antivirus” that password for its service account was changed open command line and type:

sc config “Symantec Antivirus” password= NewPassword

Note that there is space between equals sign and password value.

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