Thanks Tony- I've been trying like mad to use all of these suggestions and I was not able to get to any of these locations that were suggested on my XP Home edition, so I thought it might be malware also as was suggested by Carl, I believe. I will run all of my spyware programs again, but I have already run them twice and found nothing. Really wierd. I realize that maybe my subject line was misleading and I sent another email out saying it really was XP Home not Pro. At least I learned more about Pro.;>) Jim
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Lowe Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: XP Pro asking for new password At 04/10/2006, James Button wrote: >In Win2K At 04/10/2006, Arie Slob wrote: >That's normal Windows XP behavior if a password is set. At 04/10/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Somewhere in control panel you have an Icon "administrative tasks" >click on that and navigate to users and groups. None of that is applicable to XP Home. All of that administrative architecture is disabled. The XP Home password does not expire. From the XP Home command prompt, type NET ACCOUNTS and you will see this information. The user cannot accidentally change this behavior. You can enter NET ACCOUNTS /MAXPWAGE:x where x is the number of days the password is valid, but I'm not sure that it sticks. Some things that work in Pro just don't work in Home, but I've never tried to change that particular setting. So IMHO, having used XP Home with a password since it was released, if you are being told the password is about to expire, the message isn't coming from Windows. Run Spybot, Ad-Aware, etc. and see if it comes up with anything. I checked Google, but couldn't find anything on any specific threat that tries to glean a password in this manner. -- Tony Lowe, The HapMaster What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about? -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
