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| Guest | how do i change the password expiration policy on Vista home premi Does anyone know if it is possilble to set the password to never expire on Vista Home premium? I have an logon for both my wife and myself. My wife's password expired (didn't give her the option of changing it). |
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| Guest | Re: how do i change the password expiration policy on Vista homepremi Lewis wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possilble to set the password to never expire on > Vista Home premium? I have an logon for both my wife and myself. My wife's > password expired (didn't give her the option of changing it). Hello, See if this works for you: - Click start - Type: command prompt - Right-click it when it appears in the list and click Run As Administrator - Type the following command and press enter: net accounts /maxpwage:0 -- -JB Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ |
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| Guest | Re: how do i change the password expiration policy on Vista home p i tried the :0 switch but it did not work. It gives me an error about the minpwlen. Why do we have to change this through the command prompt. shouldn't there be a local security polices area we can change? as in Win XP. "Jimmy Brush" wrote: > Lewis wrote: > > Does anyone know if it is possilble to set the password to never expire on > > Vista Home premium? I have an logon for both my wife and myself. My wife's > > password expired (didn't give her the option of changing it). > > Hello, > > See if this works for you: > > - Click start > - Type: command prompt > - Right-click it when it appears in the list and click Run As Administrator > - Type the following command and press enter: > > net accounts /maxpwage:0 > > -- > -JB > Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User > Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ > |
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| Guest | Re: how do i change the password expiration policy on Vista homep thomas rohrer wrote: > i tried the :0 switch but it did not work. It gives me an error about the > minpwlen. Why do we have to change this through the command prompt. shouldn't > there be a local security polices area we can change? as in Win XP. > > "Jimmy Brush" wrote: > >> Lewis wrote: >>> Does anyone know if it is possilble to set the password to never expire on >>> Vista Home premium? I have an logon for both my wife and myself. My wife's >>> password expired (didn't give her the option of changing it). >> Hello, >> >> See if this works for you: >> >> - Click start >> - Type: command prompt >> - Right-click it when it appears in the list and click Run As Administrator >> - Type the following command and press enter: >> >> net accounts /maxpwage:0 >> >> -- >> -JB >> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User >> Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ >> You can still use local security policy to change it. In this case, though, the OP was using a home version of windows, so local security policy was not available to him. -- -JB Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ |
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