Windows 10: Enable or Disable Password Expiration for Your Microsoft Account

How to: Enable or Disable Password Expiration for Your Microsoft Account

How to Enable or Disable Password Expiration for Your Microsoft Account


Information If you like, you can enable password expiration for your Microsoft account (MSA) to make you change your password every 72 days.

When your password has expired, you will still be able to sign in to your Microsoft account using the old password, but you won’t be able to continue using Microsoft services without changing the password first.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable password expiration for your Microsoft account.



Warning You will be required to change the password of your Microsoft Account in the process to enable or disable password expiration for your Microsoft account.



Here's How:

1. Go the Change your password webpage for your Microsoft account at Microsoft, and sign in to your account at the site if not already.

2. If prompted to verify, type in the current password of your Microsoft account, and click/tap on Sign-in. (see screenshot below)



3. Type in your current password, type in a new password, and reenter password. (see screenshot below step 4)


Note Passwords for a Microsoft account must have at least 8 characters and contain at least two of the following: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.

You must choose a password that you haven't used before. To help protect your account, you need to choose a new password every time you reset or change it.


4. Check (enable) or uncheck (disable - default) the Make me change my password every 72 days box for what you want to enable or disable password expiration, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot below)





That's it,
Shawn


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Windows 10 Password Expiration - Enable or Disable

The procedure to disable password expiration listed in prior posts does not work in Windows 10.

The Local User Groups Manager reports:

"This snapin may not be used with this edition of Windows 10.

To manage user accounts for this computer, use the User

Accounts tool in the Control Panel"

But that Windows 10 Control Panel tool does not have an option to Disable the password expiration

I'm using Windows 10 Home - up to date of this post

 

Windows 10 Password Expiration - Enable or Disable

The password expiration is one of properties for user accounts on Windows. This property is disabled by default on Windows 10/8/7. If the password expiration is enabled, once the deadline is up, Windows will alert that your
password has expired and must be changed. You can fix this problem, click link to see the solution.

Here this guide will show you 2 ways to disable password expiration.

Option 1: disable password expiration in Local User and Group

Step 1: Open Local User and Group.

Press Win + R to open Run dialog, type in
lusrmgr.msc, then click OK.





Step 2: Click on User folder, double-click on a user account that you want to disable its password expiration.





Step 3: In Properties dialog, select the General tab, check the
Password never expires checkbox, then click Apply followed by
OK.





Option 2: disable password expiration in Command Prompt

Step 1: Open and run Command Prompt as an administrator.

To do: Press Windows logo key+ X, and hit A
key on keyboard.





Step 2: In the opening window, type in wmic UserAccount where Name='username' set PasswordExpires=False, and press
Enter key to execute this command.

Tip: Replace the username with your user name.

False = Disabled

True = Enabled





When it shows Property(s) update successful, the user’s password expiration is disabled.

Step 3: If you want to disable password expiration for all user accounts at once, type
wmic UserAccount set PasswordExpires=False, and press the
Enter key.





When finished, close the Command Prompt window.

 

Blank guest password has expired. How to change to a blank password?


You may also wish to edit the options on the User Manager so that Never Expires and user cannot change password is checked

*Arrow Enable or Disable Password Expiration for Local Accounts in Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials





Also as you have Pro you can use the Group Policy editor to tailor the password options to your needs C:\Windows\System32\gpedit.msc

 

Disabling need to change log in password periodically

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft community.

I suggest you to follow the below methods for disabling the option password expires and check if it helps.

• Right click on the “windows start icon” and click on
  “computer management”.
• Expand “local users and groups” and click on “users” option.
• On the screen you will find all the user accounts that are in your computer, I suggest you to select the appropriate
  user account that you need to disable the password expire option.
• Double click on the user account and you will get a new Window, there check the box
  “Password never expires” option.
• Click on “Apply” and then “Ok”.

Hope this information was helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.

 

Windows 10 Password Expiration - Enable or Disable

Hi,

Apology for the inconvenience. If your friend is using Microsoft account to login to her account then password is necessary. If she is using Microsoft account and unable to login with that account then
I would suggest you to try the steps provided by Cliff N in the thread mentioned below and see if it helps you to fix the issue.

Why can’t I sign into Windows 8 with my Microsoft Account?

Hope this would help. If issue still persists post back with current status of your computer and result of the proposed suggestion, we will be happy to assist you.

Regards,