CSE Computing Lab Environment: Getting Started


This document explains how to access the CSE Windows environment — which you will use for this course in lab sessions and from the CSE lab sites (see http://cse.osu.edu/cs/labs/). First, some background...

Logging In to Windows

You first need to login to Windows on a lab PC.

  1. To login, momentarily press and hold the control, alt, and delete keys simultaneously. This will cause Windows to prompt you for your account information.
  2. Click inside the "User name" box and type your OSU name.number name here.
  3. Click inside the "Password" box and type your OSU name.number password (the one you use when you log into Carmen).
  4. Press the Enter key to complete the process of logging in to Windows on the PC in front of you.

Logging Out from Windows

This is very important! Make sure you always log off the PC before leaving the lab.

  1. To log off, momentarily press and hold the control, alt, and delete keys simultaneously. This will cause Windows to display a screen with various options.
  2. Click on "Sign out" to log off the computer.

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Unlocking Locked Account

If for whatever reason your account is locked and you cannot log in, you need to visit the Engineering Technology Services (ETS) Help Desk. See for locations and how to contact them for help. For security reasons, if you visit a service desk location, you will need to bring a photo ID to get your account unlocked.

Note that it is possible that your OSU name.number password may not be complex enough for our systems to accept. The University's identity manager will take passwords that the Microsoft account system, the one that everyone uses if running a Windows environment, will not. So you may have to change your name.number password to meet the Microsoft requirements enforced on the CSE systems. (Go to my.osu.edu to change your OSU password.)