creating a login form in vb express edition

That's too much code to expect someone to write for you for free. When your users enter a username and password, against what do you intend to authenticate them? Frequently, authentication systems use a database to store user credentials. So the process would look like this:

Design a login form with textboxes for username and password, and a command button labeled Login. When the user clicks the Login button, open a connection to the database and query the database for something like, SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Users WHERE username = <value from username textbox> and password = <value from password textbox>. If the query returns a value greater than 0, the user exists in the database and is authenicated.

If you want this application to be highly secure, it's not a good idea to store passwords in the database plain text. Instead, you should use a hashing function, such as those available in .NET's System.Cryptogrpahy namespace, to hash the password when the user creates it and store the hash in the database. Then when the user comes back to login, hash what they type in the password textbox and compare that value with the hash stored in the database.

Here's a good introduction: http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/doc/adoplus/adodtreader.aspx

For demo purposes, i have created a login form where a default password is used which the user uses to login. on another form (called change password) i have three textboxes. one of these are hidden and stores the default password in it. the 2nd textbox is used to enter the current password by the user. the 3rd textbox is used to enter the new password that the user wishes to change to. when i click on a button called 'change' the password changes.

however, when the application stops running and the user wishes to login again, the default password has to be used again, instead of the new password that the user changed to. what can be done to store the new password and use this new password to login the next time the user logs in? can this be done without a database as i wish to use this login/change password for demo purposes