4 Ways to Make Your Account Password Never Expire – Windows10

This tutorial will help you to make your account never expire by four different methods, that will help you to not change your password every period of time and you will only use your current password forever, follow the below steps to make sure and guarantee a successful result.

Set Windows password to never expire through “Computer Management”:

1. Right-click “This PC” from your desktop or start menu, and then click on “Manage”.

2. Navigate to “System Tools -> Local Users and Groups -> Users”, and then right-click the user that you want to set a non-expired password, and click “Properties”, like the below screenshot.

3. Make sure to check “Password never expires” and then click OK.

4. Now it’s done, but to make sure that the password will never expire run the below command on CMD “Command Prompt” to make sure that the password will never expire.

net user Abdu0

“Make sure to replace your username instead of (Abdu0)”

Set your password to never expire through Command Prompt

1. Run CMD with administrator privileges from the start menu.

2. Copy and paste the below code with replacing “Abdu0” with your current windows user.

wmic useraccount where “Name=’Abdu0′” set PasswordExpires=false

Set your password to never expire through PowerShell

1. Run “PowerShell” with administrator privileges from the start menu.

2. Copy and paste the below command with replacing your account username instead of “Abdu0”.

Set-LocalUser -Name “Abdu0” -PasswordNeverExpires 1

Set your password to never expire through “Local Group Policy”

1. Press Windows key + R, and type “secpol.msc” and then hit Enter.

2. Navigate to “Account Policies -> Password Policy”, and double-click “Maximum password age”.

3. Make sure to set the value of days to Zero “0”, just like the below screenshot, and then press Ok.

Summary

After this guide, you should be able to know how you can set your account password to never expire by four different methods.

Miguel

I started this tech blog back in 2011 as a place to write down processes I took to fix my client systems and network. Now I write some tips and tricks to help others with the tech issues that one might encounter.

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