How to prevent Windows 10 users from changing or adding a password

1. Introduction
2. How to prevent Windows 10 users from changing or adding a password
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Introduction

How to prevent a user from changing your password? Are you looking for a way to no longer allow users to change the password?

The most common method for changing the Windows 10 password is Control Panel, PC Settings, or the Ctrl + Alt + Delete screen. If there are other users that use your computer, you definitely don’t want them to change your Windows password.

Note: Users can still open a command prompt in administrator mode to change the Windows password. To prevent a password from being changed from the command prompt, you must completely disable the command prompt.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to prevent administrators and other users from changing or adding a password for Windows 10 in the PC settings.

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How to prevent Windows 10 users from changing or adding a password

1.    To begin, open the Computer Management application by pressing Win + X, and then select Computer Management.

2.    Expand the Local Users and Groups category in the left pane. Click the Users folder and you will see a list of Windows accounts on your computer in the right pane.

3.    Right-click the account for which you want to deny permission to change the password, and select Properties from the drop-down menu.

4.    After the User Properties dialog box opens, select the General tab, select the "User cannot change password" option, click Apply then click OK.

If the selected user is an administrator, you receive the following error message: "This operation is prohibited because it may result in disabling, deleting, or being unable to log in to an administrative account."
To work around the warning, you must first change the administrator user to a standard user, and then apply the "User cannot change password" option.

5.    Once the operation is completed, you need to log out and log in to your selected account, open the PC settings, select Accounts >> Login Options and you will find the option to change or add the password is greyed out.

If you change the user's password from the Control Panel, you will receive the message "Windows cannot change the password".

If you change the user's password from the Ctrl + Alt + Delete screen, you will receive the message "Access denied".

However, the user can still change his password from Computer Management and Command Prompt. If you want to prevent this, you must restrict access to computer management and disable the command prompt on Windows 10.

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