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Logging in and promted to change a password I don't have setup.

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Coldkilla

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My brother gave me a call today from Atlanta, assuming I know any and all answers to his software quarrels. Apparently, when he signs on he is given some message to this extent:

"You have a # of days before your password expires. You wish to change it?"

He assures me that it says "password" and not something else, like for example: A serial key. His Operating System is XP, and he doesn't use a password to log in. How might I tell him to change this?

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Now my question (Less urgent than his): How I can skip the part when logging on that displays my user image. I'd like to simply hit the power button, walk away from my PC and see the desktop when I return. Not the login screen. I don't have a password and I'm unsure as to why it appears.
 
I would just put in a password, then see if it still nags you to change it. Then take the password off. I know in the Group Policy Editor it has a setting for "Maximum password age" which might prompt you to change your password after X many days.

In my experience, if you only have one account, and that account has no password associated with it, Windows would just boot up without the logon screen. Just my two cents.
 
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