How to Disable Password Expiration

By default, In Windows XP passwords have an expiration date and Windows XP user Passwords will expire after 42 days, and when you try to log on, Windows XP display below message:
"Your password will expire in 14 days.....".

To disable Password Expiration:

Go to Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Computer Management or
Click Start > Run > and type control userpasswords2 and click OK to run User Accounts
Click the advanced tab, and then press the advanced button.

Select Users in the Local Users and Groups
In right side, double click on your username, in General tab, check “Password never expires” and finally click ok

What? Does this apply to all the user accounts? I've been using XP for 2 years and haven't had a single prompt to change the password neither for the regular user nor the administrator.

I believe that password expiration is not the default install option of Windows XP. I never was faced with that either.

Soleimamian, I don't think this is a default option for windows Xp home edition atleast.

It sounds more along the lines of something for the server addition.

Good little piece of info though.

But neither is it for the XP Pro edition.
Win2000, NT, and Server seem more likely to have this implemented at installation.

Just like everyone else here, I too never had to deal with that password expiration message on my home computer.

It's for the corporate environment only and I don't think they want (or like) users to disable that feature. Most users probably can't even disable it since they have a limited account with no admin rights. It's used for a purpose, to cycle your passwords every xx number of days to protect your account.

when you install Windows Xp, installation ask you a password
if you leave it blank, your administrator account haven`t password
but if you fill password field,you should enter password to login to Administarator account,
and password will exp in 75 days

Ok... I guess you mean to say it's for people who use the administrator account for regular use instead of creating another user account. That's why I never saw it before .

Yes, it seems to be an optional setting for XP nowadays. I have never had that promt on my Windows XP machine either. The last time i recieved that prompt was in Windows 98SE (not 2000 as i think my dad changed the settings - he hasnt touched our XP machine settings yet!). But this info provided to us should be useful for those people out there that had enabled that setting yet are now getting annoyed with it.