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How to Change or Stop Password Expiration in Vista
Published by Brink
10-01-2007
| | How to Change or Stop Password Expiration in Vista Information | | This normally only applies to the Vista Business and Vista Ultimate versions. By default, Vista is set up with passwords which will expire after 42 days. 14 days in advance, Vista will start warning you of this fact. |  | NOTE | | You will need to do this from within an administrator account. |  | RELATED LINKS: | METHOD ONE: |
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| Through Local Security Policy |
NOTE | | The Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions do not have this feature. See METHOD THREE below for how with these editions instead. |  | 1. Open the Local Security Policy editor. 2. In the left pane, under Security Settings, click the little arrow next to Account Policies to drop down and view the folder
options. (See screenshot below) 3. Click on the Password Policy folder. 4. In the right pane, right click on Maximum password age and click Properties. 5. To Stop Password Expiration - A) Type 0 (number zero) and click OK. (See screenshots below step 6) 6. To Change the Password Expiration Date - A) Type in a number between 1 and 999 days between expirations. NOTE: If you would like to change the other options, then just right click them and click Properties. Click the Explain tab to see what it is for and how to set it. 
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| Through Local Users and Groups |
NOTE | | The Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions do not have this feature. See METHOD THREE below for how with these editions instead. |  | OPTION ONE:1. Open the Local Users and Groups manager. 2. In the left pane, click on Users. (See screenshot below step 3) 3. In the middle pane, right click on the user account you want to do this with and click on Properties. (See screenshot below) 4. To Stop Password Expiration - A) Check Password never expires. (See screenshot below step 6) 5. To Change the Password Expiration Date - A) Check one of the other options you want to apply. (See screenshot below step 6) 6. Click on OK. (See screenshot below) 7. Close the Local Users and Groups window. | METHOD THREE: |
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| Through a Elevated Command Prompt |
NOTE | | You can do this method in all versions of Vista. This will affect all user accounts on the computer. |  | 1. Open a elevated command prompt. 2. To Stop Password Expiration - A) In the elevated command prompt, type net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
B) Close the elevated command prompt window when you get the The command completed successfully message.
4. To Change the Password Expiration Date- A) In the elevated command prompt, type net accounts /maxpwage:(1-999) and press Enter. (See screenshot below) EXAMPLE: To change it back to the default 42 days, you would type: net accounts /maxpwage:42 NOTE: Change it to whatever you want between 1 to 999 days before password expiration.
B) Close the elevated command prompt window when you get the The command completed successfully message.
That's it,
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10-12-2007
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| | Death Eaters XP 64 Bit Riddle Graveyard
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| | Administrator Vista x64 Ultimate SP2 Texas, USA | Re: Password Expiration in Vista Your welcome Lord Voldemort,
Welcome to the forum.
Shawn | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom OS Vista x64 Ultimate SP2 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
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12-16-2007
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| | Administrator Vista x64 Ultimate SP2 Texas, USA | Re: Password Expiration in Vista Updated 12-15-2007 to include METHOD THREE for all versions of Vista.
Shawn | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom OS Vista x64 Ultimate SP2 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
750GB Samsung HDD HD753LJ SATA 32MB Internet Speed 3382 kb/s Download and 312 kb/s Upload Other Info Creative WebCam Instant
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| | Little-Lost
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| | Administrator Vista x64 Ultimate SP2 Texas, USA | Re: Password Expiration in Vista Your welcome LL, and welcome to Vista Forums.
Shawn | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom OS Vista x64 Ultimate SP2 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
750GB Samsung HDD HD753LJ SATA 32MB Internet Speed 3382 kb/s Download and 312 kb/s Upload Other Info Creative WebCam Instant
08-12-2008
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| | Newbie
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 | Re: Password Expiration in Vista Brink, this article literally saved my butt big time, I run Vista Home Premium on a Mac inside VMWare Fusion and there's a serious bug that blocks me out of Windows when my password expires, a full reinstall is the only solution, not to mention since it's a virtual machine it's a pain to get inside to get the files from the virtual hard drive.
Other sites have the usual process with Vista Enterprise or Ultimate, but I only found yours that has a method to disable expiration on all versions, at least I have a workaround, many thanks!!! | My System Specs | |
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| | Administrator Vista x64 Ultimate SP2 Texas, USA | Re: Password Expiration in Vista Your welcome d0b3r, and welcome to Vista Forums.
Shawn | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom OS Vista x64 Ultimate SP2 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
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