local password policy - vista home

How do I setup or change a Local Password Policy, using vista Home?

 

Sage - John Leonard wrote:
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> How do I setup or change a Local Password Policy, using vista Home?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Since you don't have gpedit in Vista Home:

Start Orb>Search box>cmd
When cmd appears in Results above, right-click and choose "Run as
administrator"

Stop the Password Expiration - at the command prompt type:

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited [enter]

You will get a message box: “The command completed successfully” and then
you can close the command prompt.

To change the Password Expiration Date:

At an elevated command prompt (as above), type:

net accounts /maxpwage1 - 999) [enter]

Here (1- 999) is the range for the number of days. Ex. - to set password
expiration to 50 days, type net accounts /maxpwage:50. Close the command
prompt window when you get “The command completed successfully” message.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

 

Thx

I found that and did it.
"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Sage - John Leonard wrote:
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>> How do I setup or change a Local Password Policy, using vista Home?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
> Since you don't have gpedit in Vista Home:
>
> Start Orb>Search box>cmd
> When cmd appears in Results above, right-click and choose "Run as
> administrator"
>
> Stop the Password Expiration - at the command prompt type:
>
> net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited [enter]
>
> You will get a message box: “The command completed successfully” and then
> you can close the command prompt.
>
> To change the Password Expiration Date:
>
> At an elevated command prompt (as above), type:
>
> net accounts /maxpwage1 - 999) [enter]
>
> Here (1- 999) is the range for the number of days. Ex. - to set password
> expiration to 50 days, type net accounts /maxpwage:50. Close the command
> prompt window when you get “The command completed successfully” message.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
>
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