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14k - 24 Mar 2007 08:50 GMT

how do you keep your password form expiring in vista home prenium or can you
I am getting a message that my password will expire in 6 days
thanks

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Ronnie Vernon MVP - 24 Mar 2007 23:57 GMT

Hi

Go to Start / All Programs /Accessories. Right click Command Prompt and
select "Run as administrator" from the menu. Click Continue on the UAC
prompt.

When the command window opens, type following command. (or copy / paste the
following line)

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

Press ENTER. You should see the message "The command completed successfully"

Exit the command prompt. This will reset the passwords for all accounts on
the system to not expire.

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> how do you keep your password form expiring in vista home prenium or can
> you
> I am getting a message that my password will expire in 6 days
> thanks

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14k - 28 Mar 2007 00:13 GMT

thanks that worked
I need to brush up on my DOS commands because vista home premium doesn’t
have all the user & groups access in GUI

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Jake Liddicoat - 28 Mar 2007 01:05 GMT

Changing the expiration feature should be easily accesible in GUI. I
gaurantee there will be many unhappy users over that and I'm one of them.

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Ronnie Vernon MVP - 29 Mar 2007 01:32 GMT

Jake

This option is available for the versions of Vista that have access to the
MSC components. Home Premium is not one of these.

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> gaurantee there will be many unhappy users over that and I'm one of them.
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GBorn - 27 Mar 2007 07:25 GMT

> how do you keep your password form expiring in vista home prenium or can
> you
> I am getting a message that my password will expire in 6 days
> thanks

A, you have played a bit with Vista Home Premium? Home Premium doesn't use
expired passwords in default account settings. Well, here is the cure that
should help:

Open the command prompt window in administrator mode (startmenu, All
Programs, Accessories -> right click "Run as administrator"

Enter a command like: net user <name>

where <name> is the account name. The should be a list with the account
settings. One deals with Password epiration (Password expires: No). If that
fits, try the command:

net user <name> /Passwordchg:No

The exact Syntax may be obtained with the comand "net help user".

Hope that helps

Greetings from Germany

G. Born

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