If it helps at all...Group Policy is not supported in Vista Home Premium. I
wouldn't have thought that Home Premium even had password aging. I haven't
been prompted to change my password in the > 6 months that I've been running
it (of course, maybe it's set to be longer than 6 months). Where did you
find the setting?
Tim
"POPTOPP" <POPTOPP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EBAE786F-922C-4A4C-95FE-59825F8CF8A5@microsoft.com...
> I've been working with Dell support to try to figure out a way to disable
> password aging in Vista Home Premium. They've concluded that since
> certain
> MMC console documents are missing or non-functional (such as gpedit,
> lusrmgr,
> and secpol) that the OS has been corrupted and a complete reinstall is
> required.
>
> In an earlier post, Jesper hinted that some account management features
> have
> been removed from Home Premium and the work around is to use the NET
> ACCOUNTS
> command.
>
> Can anyone confirm that by design that gpedit, gpmc, lusrmgt,
> printmanagement, and secpol are unsupported MMC stubs in Home Premium.
> Obviously, a reinstall is non-trivial event.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff