Admins can force users to reset their particular passwords during their next Windows 11 login by making a few easy modifications on a difficult-to-find configuration screen. Image: Mark Kaelin/TechRepublic Regardless of the size of your organization, following best practice security procedures are fundamental to your operation and must never ever be dismissed. Among these fundamental security treatments is the duration resetting of a strong login password– a security task that users are naturally hesitant to take part in. SEE: Utilize this checklist from TechRepublic Premium to secure your Windows 11 systems. In Windows 11, administrators of local user accounts can force members to reset their respective passwords on their next login by making a basic modification on a particular configuration screen. Browsing to this screen
requires a couple of actions and might include a less-than-intuitive flip of more than one switch, howeverdoing
, we should rely on an old, however beneficial, configuration wizard. To open the configuration tool, press the keyboard combination of Windows Key+ R, and type “netplwiz”into the command text box. This will open the User Accounts control panel( Figure A). Figure A Gain Access To the User Accounts control board via the Windows 11 command line. Click the Advanced tab in the User Accounts pop-up, and after that, click the Advanced button under the Advanced
user management area(Figure B). Figure B Navigate to the Advanced user management settings in Windows 11, and click Advanced. Clicking the Advanced button reveals the Local Users and Groups supervisor(Figure C). 
Click on the Users folder to expose the list of local users. This screen is where we will make
our settings changes to force users to reset their passwords. Figure C From the Windows 11 Local Users and Groups manager, choose the
Users folder. Right click a username from the list, and select Properties from the dropdown context menu, which will open the Properties screen for that particular user (Figure D). We are interested in the set of checkboxes at the bottom of this screen.
Figure D
Configure local users’ Properties so that Password never ever expires is uncontrolled and User should change password at next logon is checked. We wish to put a check in the first checkbox, which is labeled User needs to alter password at next logon. However, in a lot of cases, that setting may be grayed out and not available. To make it available, first uncheck package labeled Password never expires.
When the modification to settings is total, click Apply and then OK to complete the procedure. Perform this task on other users from the list as you see fit, and when you have actually completed, you can exit both the Regional Users and Groups manager and the User Accounts control board.
Now, the next time a user logs in to Windows, they will be asked to reset their password following the standard guidelines for password production.
There are other methods for forcing people to reset their Windows 11 login passwords, which include administrative tools discovered in Azure. These tools are created for organizations with more than a couple of users and require more thorough tutorials.
