Upgraded from Windows 7 to 10; asked to reset password after booting or waking up computer

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I get a prompt at startup or wake that I must change my password. I have a local account and I am the only user. How do I stop this? I don't want to change my password every day. If it matters, I signed up for a Microsoft account, but don't use it.

Paul

Posted 2017-01-23T02:09:29.917

Reputation: 13

What is the message you see, and where does it show up? Is it before login "Your password has expired and must be changed"? – Yisroel Tech – 2017-01-23T03:01:03.507

I got no message that password expired before logon, only that I must change it after password was entered. The excellent step by step answer fixed the problem. After going to computer management - local user account, I found a box checked "User must change password at next logon". I changed it to "password never expires". Thank you! – Paul – 2017-01-24T03:47:38.117

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I get a prompt at startup or wake that I must change my password. I have a local account and I am the only user. How do I stop this?

I've resolved this problem in the past with Windows 10 giving this prompt by:

  1. Pressing the WinFlag Windows Flag key one time, start typing "comp", and then when you see Computer Management click on that to launch the console app.

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  2. From the Computer Management console app go to Local Users and Groups, double click on the user account that is listed to the right that is experiencing the message during its logon, and check the Password never expires option to enable it. Press Apply, OK, and now reboot the machine and login again to confirm the issue is resolved.

    Note: If the #4 option of User must change password at next login is checked, then that too will need to be unchecked to stop the notification.

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Pimp Juice IT

Posted 2017-01-23T02:09:29.917

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note, this only works for Pro/Education/Enterprise, Home doesn't support this user/groups MMC snapin – magicandre1981 – 2017-01-23T05:47:13.217

1To run "wmic UserAccount set PasswordExpires=False" in an elevated command would probably work on Windows Home. – Yisroel Tech – 2017-01-23T07:02:30.557

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