If you get used to let other people use Customer you on one Window Opere Systems, you certainly do not want those people to be able to change the user's access password. Also, if other users share the same user on your computer (different from your user), you will most likely want to Prevent User's password change respectively by one of his users. For such situations you have three methods at hand by which you can Prevent a Windows user to change the access password of the user, namely prime Computer Management, Group Policy Editor and Registry Editor.
How can we prevent a user from changing his access password in Windows?
1. Computer Management
- open Computer Management by clicking-right on Computer and selecting Manage from the displayed menu
- In the left panel, browse to System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Users
- Then in the middle panel, right -click on Customer for which you want to Prevent Change of Access Password and select Properties from the menu
- In the property window of the respective user, check the option User cannot change password, then click on Apply and OK
After you make this change, if the user for whom you Restricted Change of Access Password to Windows will try to change the respective password will receive the error message Windows cannot change the password.
2. Group Policy Editor
- open Group Policy Editor tastand GPEDIT.MSC in Run (Windows + r) then giving Enter
- on the left side, browse to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Ctrl+Alt+Del Options
- Then, on the right side, give double-click on the option Remove change password
- In the open window, select Enabled and click on Apply and on OK
After you make this change, the option Change Password will disappear from the screen Windows Security that can be accessed using the key combination Ctrl+alt+del.
3. Registry Editor
- open Registry Editor tastand regedit in run and then giving Enter
- Navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPolicies
- sub Policies, in the right panel, create the dword entrance DisableChangePassword and give her the value 1
- Then close regeit and Restore the system
After you do this modification of registers, system users Windows respectively they will no longer be able to modify access passwords and the system.
Note: Before making changes in registers or system files, create a Restore Point of the respective system to avoid any unpleasant consequences (for example, the erroneous operation of the system or its failure).
STEALTH SETTINGS – How to prevent users from changing password in Windows
