Do Not Allow Windows 7 Users to Change Their Password
Each user in Windows 7 can reset Windows 7 password for its own account in control panel. The admin user can change any user’s password. Do you want to be the only one having the right to change all users’ password? It can be easily configured in Windows 7.
Before making operations, you should be able to either running as an administrative user, or you know the Administrator’s password.
1. Once you have logged in to Windows 7, right-click on Computer and choose “Manage”.
2. Once the “Computer Management” console opens, double-click or expand “Local Users and Groups” inside the left pane; then, select “Users”, and Windows 7 will display all user accounts.
Tip: Type “lusrmgr.msc” in the start menu to directly load the “Local Users and Groups” node.
3. Right-click on the username you want to prevent from changing their own password, and choose “Properties” from the context menu.
4. Choose the “User cannot change password” checkbox. Click “OK” to apply. Do the same to other users.
5. As soon as you do, you will back to the Computer Management console, close it. From this point on, the user will not be able to change its password.
6. Switch and login with other user, check if it can change password in control panel. – You will get the prompt that “Windows cannot change password”, the same as the user with administrator rights if it has been set, which should clear User cannot change password at first, and then it can change the password.