How to Restrict Users from Changing Password

Computers open to general or specified public for use; usually have a common and shared username. In most of the cases, this username is also protected by a password. A user may try, and succeed in changing the password, and you cannot even identify that user due to a high number of attendants on a same PC. To avoid the troublesomeness resulting from it, prevent these users to change the concerned PIN. 

This document entails the procedures to restrict general users from changing passwords for login usernames. And all this is done through Microsoft Windows Registry database. There are certain known keys to modify, by which, no one would be allowed to alter the passwords, except the user with administrative rights. Moreover, excessive users would result in excessive waste in Windows Registry. You are advised to use free registry optimizer to keep registry clean to evade losses.

Implement the below stated complete process, to accomplish what is discussed and desired in the above context.

·         Point your cursor on the top right corner of the screen to view Charms bar

·         In the Charms bar, click on the Search icon

·         Type ‘regedit’, select Apps beneath the Search box, and open Registry Editor from the results

·         Windows 7 users, simply press Windows key, type regedit, and hit Enter to open Registry Editor

·         In the left panel of registry editor, navigate thru HKEY_CURRENT_USER to reach following key

·         Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System

·         If the System key does not appear under Policies, right click Policies to create a New Key

·         Name this key as System

·         Stay on the System key, right click in the right panel, and choose New to create a DWORD Value

·         Right click this newly created value, select Rename, and name it as DisableChangePassword

·         Double click this registry entry to Modify

·         Activate this value, by replacing 0 by 1 in the text field next to Value data

·         Click OK to save your settings

·         Exit Registry Editor

·         Log off your account

Log back in with that specific username, providing the set password, and try to change the password through User Account Settings in Control Panel. You will find out that it would not allow you to do so.