Special Characters on Windows

The following tables list the special characters that are allowed or not allowed in the user password on Windows:

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Windows: Special characters allowed in admin password (quotes not required)

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Windows: Special characters allowed in admin password (quotes required)

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Windows: Special characters not allowed in admin password

Windows: Special characters allowed in admin password (quotes not required)

Character	Name
!	Exclamation mark
@	At symbol
#	Hash / Pound sign
%	Percent sign
*	Asterisk
-	Hyphen / Minus
_	Underscore
=	Equals sign
+	Plus sign
[	Left square bracket
]	Right square bracket
:	Colon
,	Comma
.	Period / Full stop
/	Forward slash
?	Question mark
~	Tilde
\	Backslash

 

Windows: Special characters allowed in admin password (quotes required)

Character	Name
$	Dollar sign
(	Left parenthesis
)	Right parenthesis
{	Left curly brace
}	Right curly brace
;	Semicolon
‘	Left single quotation mark. This must be passed in double quotes (").
`	Back tick / Grave accent
'	Apostrophe / Right single quotation mark. This must be passed in double quotes (").

 

Windows: Special characters not allowed in admin password

Character	Name
^	Caret
&	Ampersand
"	Double quote
<	Less-than sign
>	Greater-than sign
|	Vertical bar / Pipe