How to Disable or Enable Windows Home Password Expiration

With Windows Home edition, you don’t have Local Users and Groups feature to manage a user account. Here are some options to disable or enable password expiration on windows Home.

Method 1: Set a password to never expire using PowerShell

Update-MgUser -UserId -PasswordPolicies DisablePasswordExpiration -PassThru

For example

Update-MGuser -UserId blin@chicagotech.net -PasswordPolicies DisablePasswordExpiration -PassThru

Method 2: Using Elevated Command Prompt

wmic UserAccount where Name=’User Name’ set PasswordExpires=False

Note: Replace the words ‘User Name’ with the user name of your account. Everything else is as written.

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Bob Lin

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