"password will expire" message but no password being used?

[John]

My wife is telling me that her XP machine at work has started telling her
her password is going to expire. But, she says, she never needs to use a
password to get logged in to her PC.

- why might it be saying her password is going to expire?
- how can she make the message go away and still log in without a password?

Her PC's on a network with other PCs, don't know details. Don't know if
she's on XP Pro or Home.

Thanks for any tips

 

[Alex Nichol]

My wife is telling me that her XP machine at work has started telling her
her password is going to expire. But, she says, she never needs to use a
password to get logged in to her PC.

- why might it be saying her password is going to expire?
- how can she make the message go away and still log in without a password?

Her PC's on a network with other PCs, don't know details. Don't know if
she's on XP Pro or Home.

If it is Pro (and in an Office net it most probably is) , it needs
someone who has Admin status (which she may not) to logon and go to
Control Panel - Admin Tools - Local Security Policy.

There in
Security Settings - Account Policies - Password Policy
you can set the various checks to be made on passwords - especially the
Maximum Password Age. Setting these to 0 will effectively mean 'do not
make this check'