David… He has taken the laptop with him on a business trip, and as our two systems here in the house have Win98 SE on them, I cannot look to tell you at the moment. My knowledge of XP is pretty weak sigh so I cannot remember exactly where but it was in Control Panel in Users I believe and after meandering around I managed to find a place where I was able to check a box starting “password never expires” . When he returns I’ll look again on his laptop and let you know…