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Alan - Just to avoid any doubt -
Do not alter anything in the account you have now enabled and are logging into.
- This account is the Built-In Admin and it has the username "Administrator"
- You are using that account just to fix issues with other accounts - try to fix the apparent password expiry issue, create two new password-protected Admin accounts of your own.
- When you have finished using it and have tested your other accounts, you will log out of that account and disable it again.
Main rectification actions in addition to trying to fix the password expiry issue -
- When you enable the Built-in Admin & log in with it, you should create TWO password-protected Admin user accounts.
- Assume that your existing Admin user account, NewAdminPrimary, is a writeoff unless & until your follow-on tests [below] prove otherwise.
- Call them something like AdminPrimary, AdminReserve.
- Write their passwords down somewhere secure yet readily accessible to you [as I probably said before, mine are on a strip of paper inside one of those dog name tally holders that I have attached to my keyring].
- Log in to Alan again.
- Open an elevated command prompt / PowerShell window to test the AdminPrimary username & password.
- Open an elevated command prompt / PowerShell window to test the AdminReserve username & password.
- Then disable the Built-in Admin again.
- There is no particular benefit from logging into AdminPrimary until you need to do so but it will do no harm.
- You need not bother logging in to AdminReserve either but it will do no harm.
Essential follow-up checks before logging off from the Built-In Admin account -
Open any command prompt / PowerShell window and enternet user AlanIn the response for each test, look at the line beginning Password expires and, if it says Never, be glad. If it has an expiry date then use the link @Brink gave you to change it to never - Enable or Disable Password Expiration for Local Accounts in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials
then net user AdminPrimary
then net user AdminReserve
then do it for that faulty account net user NewAdminPrimary
Denis