Thank you! Thank you!

I used to love Windows, but now I feel like an idiot. They’ve hidden everything, it’s absolutely ridiculous. I never had a virus I couldn’t fix, but I’ve found tons of new Microsoft “improvements” that logic does just not follow. I can’t wait for Google to make an open source operating systems!!!

Bob: Glad I could help! The "net" command is a handy command line program -- it has other uses for different parameters, type "net /help" to find others.

Cheers, Julian

Tank Julian, this tip works like a charm

Good tip!! thanks! Why this is hidden / disabled in Win7 is beyond me, I understand that the average home user needs some protection from messing with 'advanced' settings but this should at least be available 'somewhere' :(

Great tip thanks. It's been driving my wife mad having to change her password all the time, this has solved it.

Why doesn't the Bill Gates mob tell us things like this?

how do you run command prompt as an administrator - half finished answer

@dunc: Are you kidding me? Did you read the post? Let's see, right after I say "you have [to] open up a Command Prompt as administrator", I wrote something in parentheses:

(type "Command Prompt" in the Start search box and instead of just pressing Enter as normal, you right-click the menu item for it and select "Run as administrator")

That's pretty much it.

Cheers, Julian

Saved me, thank you.

THANK YOU! I was in China and about to do a presentation when I got the warning about my password expiring, but was too jetlagged and thought I had 24 hours. And I DID! 24 hours EST time, so I woke up and couldn't log into my computer. Didn't have the bloody disc with me! And had another week on the road. Thank God I had saved everything on Cloud and could get through the firewall to download it to someone else's computer! But I NEVER want to go through that again. You have SAVED me hours of future frustration.

Thanks, man. This was about the tenth page with similar instructions and YOURS was the first that said to CMD as Admin. Finally, someone with common sense. Thanks again!!!

Thanks.

Hi Julian

WOW.... I've been trying to solve this issue for so long and after I checked on Google with so many options that don't resolve the issue I found you. There are quite a few fixes but they are for WINS Pro or Ultimate and won't work for Home Premium. I wonder why would Microsoft hide this feature? It's such a headache to have to change your password every few months for really no reason. Sure, I understand that it's Microsoft way of securing my PC but shouldn't that be decided by the PC owner? I think that all administrative duties should be in the owners hands. What do you think? Thank you very much for the great tip and hope to hear from you soon,

George Melendez

Puerto Rico

I cannot run as Admin because the password has expired; how do I resent the Admin password now in Windows 7 Home Premium. Thanks.