Topic: Stop Password Expiration

[joudi]

After you have run Windows XP for a while, you may receive this message when you log on: "Your password will expire in 14 days....".

By default, Windows XP is set up with passwords which will expire after 42 days. 14 days in advance, Windows will start warning you of this fact. If you do not want your passwords to expire:

1.   Go to Start > Run and in the Open box type control userpasswords2

2.   Select the Advanced tab in the User Accounts window

3.   Press the Advanced button below the Advanced user management header

4.   Select Users in the Local Users and Groups

5.   In the right pane, right-click the user name for which you want to change the setting, and select Properties

(Sorry, in this step (5), I couldn't go farer. It didn't work with me. Maybe because I have only one user account.  Does it work with you?)

6.   On the General tab, check Password never expires

7.   Click Apply and OK (all the way out)

[Simon]

I have to admit, I've never heard of expiring passwords, but, like you, Joudi, I only have the one account, so it's probably not something I would come across.  That certainly might be useful to someone with multiple accounts, and it would be interesting if anybody could put it to the test, and report back to us.