Disable Password Option

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/disable-password-option.23450/

Hello All...

A friend of mine runs an internet cafe & has faced this problem of customers changing the Administrator password of Windows XP on the machines...

Is there any way (By employing GPedit) to disable the password option in XP?? I mean to say that XP shud not ask for a password neither shud there be any option to enter a password for the administratos account...

Any ideas?? Looking forward to replies...TiA

HK

Why is the Administrator account being used without a password? It is not safe... Set a password so that customers cannot access it... Create a second account for the customer and set it to "Limited account". Under User Accounts, you can set the limited account to "user cannot change password"

Arun

type in run

CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2

and set option that u want in those tabs that "don't ask pwd"

@ sakumar79

We do run XP with the administrator password, but there were a couple of cases where the password was hacked & changed, & that caused us a lot of trouble...

@vinaypatel

Thanx for your solution..

HK

also check "user cannot change password" this will take care of people who actually dont know anything more than changing password....