XP password expiration message. A virus ? Repeated Post

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I have had XP Pro installed since last September. Yesterday at the end of
the bootup I received a message that said that "my password would expire in
14 more days, and do I want to set up a new password now" (or words to that
effect). This has never happened before.

I don't want or need a password, so I clicked YES and hit return for the old
password, the new password, and the confirmation for the new password.

I am hoping that I do not get this reminder again. Is this reminder normal,
or is it a virus?

In case this is a virus, I run updated versions of AVG and AdAware almost
daily - and they did not catch it (or maybe AdAware did, because it caught 7
items shortly afterwards).

Thanks for your responses.
 
Windows Prompts You to Change Your Password Every Time You Log On
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322962&Product=winxp

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I tried sending this post earlier, but it failed to get sent, apparently.
|
| I have had XP Pro installed since last September. Yesterday at the end of
| the bootup I received a message that said that "my password would expire in
| 14 more days, and do I want to set up a new password now" (or words to that
| effect). This has never happened before.
|
| I don't want or need a password, so I clicked YES and hit return for the old
| password, the new password, and the confirmation for the new password.
|
| I am hoping that I do not get this reminder again. Is this reminder normal,
| or is it a virus?
|
| In case this is a virus, I run updated versions of AVG and AdAware almost
| daily - and they did not catch it (or maybe AdAware did, because it caught 7
| items shortly afterwards).
|
| Thanks for your responses.
 
Right click My Computer/Manage/Local Users and Groups/Users/Right click your
account/Properties

Add check to "password never expires"

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Thank you both, Carey and Richard. Before seeing either of your posts, I
tried a different method, thanks to Mr. Neil J. Rubenking, that seemed to
work. Here is a quote from him that I found on a website:

"Windows XP may notify you at log-on that your password will expire in a
number of days and ask whether you want to change it now. This behavior can
start months after your initial installation of Windows XP. Its purpose is
to help enforce password policies in a business environment, but if you
don't need that enforcement, it can be very annoying.

To turn off the warning, go to the Control Panel and launch the
Administrative Tools. If you happen to be using the Category view, look
under Performance and Maintenance. Next, launch the Local Security Policy
applet. In the left tree, double-click on Account Policies and then select
Password Policy. Find the item titled Maximum Password Age in the right-hand
pane and double-click on it. If you set this value to 0, your passwords will
never expire." END of QUOTE

For some reason I was unable to just click on the Administrative Tools icon
in the Control Panel. When I did, nothing happened. So I clicked on Start /
All Programs / Administrative Tools / Local Security Policy / Account
Policies / Password Policy. Then, as Mr. Rubenking suggested, I found the
item titled Maximum Password Age in the right-hand pane, double-clicked on
it, and then set the value to 0. As Mr. Rubenking said, doing this causes
your passwords to never expire again. By the way, the original value for
Maximum Password Age on my machine was 42 days.

After going through these steps and then seeing Richard's instructions, I
went to the "Password Never Expires" option and it was already checked. So I
assume that the steps I took per Mr. Rubenking's instructions caused that
option to be checked.

Now I'll have to figure out why nothing happens when I click on the
Administrative Tools icon in the Control Panel.
 
Tried that. It made a change to my registry. Then after it was done, I
rebooted and went back into the Control Panel and double clicked on the
Administrative Tools icon, but again - nothing happened.
 
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