Disable password expiration in Windows 7 Home Premium

It looks like admin accounts in Windows 7 Home Premium have password expiration set on. However, Windows 7 in Home Premium edition does not have a GUI tool to remove it. There is, however, a command line tool which allows to do it over Windows Management Instrumentation – its name is wmic.

If you want to remove password expiration do the following:

  1. Click on Start button.
  2. Type wmic
  3. Right click listed program wmic and “Run as Administrator”
  4. Now paste this commmand:
    UserAccount where PasswordExpires=TRUE set PasswordExpires=FALSE
  5. Confirm change for each account with password expiration.

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