{"id":20940,"date":"2016-06-02T11:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T04:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tom.ji42.com\/?p=20940"},"modified":"2016-06-02T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T04:49:37","slug":"2-options-to-turn-off-password-expiration-in-windows-87vistaxp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/?p=20940","title":{"rendered":"2 Options to Turn off Password Expiration in Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP"},"content":{"rendered":"

When booting up to the logon screen, Windows may notify you that your password will expire in a number of days and ask whether you want to change it now. This behavior can start months after your initial installation of Windows. Its purpose is to help enforce password policies in a business environment, but if you don\u2019t need that enforcement, it can be very annoying. In this tutorial we\u2019ll show you two options to turn off password expiration in Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP. The steps are quite simple!<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> If your password expired and couldn\u2019t remember your Windows password, you need to use a password cracking bootdisk such as Reset Windows Password<\/a> utility to remove your forgotten password, before following this guide to turn off Windows password expiration.<\/p>\n

Option 1: Turn off Password Expiration Through GUI Interface<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press Windows + R key combination to bring up the Run box. Type netplwiz<\/strong> or control userpasswords2<\/strong> and press Enter. The User Accounts dialogue box will appear.<\/li>\n
  2. Click on Advanced tab in the user account.<\/li>\n
  3. Click on Advanced button in the Advanced user management window and it will open Local User and Group.<\/li>\n
  4. Double click the Users Folder in the Local User and Group.<\/li>\n
  5. Select your user account from the list and right click > select Properties<\/li>\n
  6. It will open another window, click on General tab and check the option of Password never expires<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  7. Click on Apply and then click on OK button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Option 2: Turn off Password Expiration Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Open up a Command Prompt as administrator (type \u201cCommand Prompt\u201d in the Start search box and instead of just pressing Enter as normal, you right-click the menu item for it and select \u201cRun as administrator\u201d) and type the following command at the prompt:<\/p>\n

    net accounts \/maxpwage:unlimited<\/code><\/p>\n

    and press Enter. That should do it. (If you get access error 5, you didn\u2019t run Command Prompt as administrator.)<\/p>\n

    Note:<\/strong> If you don\u2019t know how to open up a Command Prompt as administrator in Windows 8, please refer to this article: http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-run-an-application-as-administrator-in-windows-8\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When booting up to the logon screen, Windows may notify you that your password will expire in a number of days and ask whether you want to change it now. This behavior can start months after your initial installation of Windows. Its purpose is to help enforce password policies in a business environment, but if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cOVM-5rK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20941,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions\/20941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}