Disable password expiration in Windows 7 Home Premium
It looks like admin accounts in Windows 7 Home Premium have password expiration set on. However, Windows 7 in Home Premium edition does not have a GUI tool to remove it. There is, however, a command line tool which allows to do it over Windows Management Instrumentation – its name is wmic.
If you want to remove password expiration do the following:
- Click on Start button.
- Type wmic
- Right click listed program wmic and “Run as Administrator”
- Now paste this commmand:
UserAccount where PasswordExpires=TRUE set PasswordExpires=FALSE - Confirm change for each account with password expiration.
This is not really a missing answer, however, there are plenty of solutions which do not work well, or contain typos – mostly because of different quotes used in the command. This script allows changing the expiration at once for all users that have it set – and it does not contain any quotes 
Anyway, this is so far the biggest failure I have encountered when using Windows 7 Home Premium edition: Force password expiration in home environment and do not provide a GUI how to disable it.
Terrific! Thank you! I am not a programmer (took one class in colleges decades ago) but was able to follow your directions and make the “fix”. I very much appreciate your assistance.
Thank You so much for this. You are right, what a massive failure on Msofts front to not allow you to manage your own pc.
Qick and easy solution,
1 log in as admin
start
wmic right click and run as admin this needs to be done to allow write privileges
“useraccount set passwordexpires=false”
answer either Y or N for each account
exit will close program
@Catherine
Yes, couple of characters can be saved, so I removed them from the command. I have also removed the step that was listing accounts with expiration, because they are shown during change anyway.
When I do this, I get “UserAccount is not recognized as an internal or external command. . . . ” etc.
Hi Lynn, this looks like you are not inside the WMIC when running the command. Please check that you type the command to the window which opens when running step 3.
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