How to Prevent Windows 10 Users from Changing or Adding a Password

1. Introduction

2. Steps to follow

3. To read also

Introduction:

How to prevent a user from changing their password? 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 others are accessing your computer, you may not want someone else 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 ordinary 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 :

Steps to follow

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

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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.

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

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4. After the User Properties dialog box opens, select the General tab, select the " User can not change password " checkbox, click Apply, and then click OK.

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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. "

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To work around the warning, you must first change the administrator user to a standard user, and then apply the " User can not change password"option. Once the operation is completed.

5. Now, 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 grayed out.

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If you change the user's password from the Control Panel, you will receive the message " Windows can not 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. Click HERE to purchase your windows 10 license key

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