First, you will need administrator-level access rights to change the
password-reset time.

Open the Group Policy Editor (or type into the "Run" box) the following :

gpedit.msc

.....and press [ok]

Then, navigate to :

Local Computer Policy :- Computer Configuration :- Windows Settings :-
Security Settings :- Account Policies :- Password Policies

...and the item under this heading that you need is : "Maximum Password
Age"

If you set it to 0 [zero] the password will never require change nor ask
for it.

Otherwise, you may set it to anything between 1 and 999 [days]

*note* The "Maximum Password Age" has to be set to a greater number of
days than the "Minimum Password Age" setting under the same heading.

The default is 45 [days]

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Stan Brown" wrote in message
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I've got my PC set to require passwords to be changed every 45 days.
I'd like to change that to every 30 days, but I can't remember where
to set it. I tried "User Accounts" in control panel, but that seems
to cover only very basic settings.

Can someone remind me, please: where do I tell Windows how often
users are required to change their passwords?

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