I am running as an Admin account on Win7 (I know for security reasons) its not practical, but I must so since I am always doing maintenances/updates/patches/development and etc.... on my machine and I have to... But anyways, I stumbled across this really strange issue.
Whenever I access the User Accounts from the Control Panel, three times, my Account locks out!!!! all the time.
I did numerous testing on this.
First, I opened up User Accounts one time. My Account was not locked out.
Then tried two. No lockout. Then three. And my Account was locked.
Now luckily, since I am using the PC as an Admin, I was able to unlock my account.
And plus, I keep a Win7 OS image handy.
My number of bad password attempts settings under Local Security Policy are set to 3 attempts after it locks out.
I am NOT under any Domain. Just a standalone machine.
I am behind a router/firewall, using locked down Win7 settings.
Does anyone have any clues why my Account keeps locking out after accessing the User Accounts control console 3 times???
And, I tested this also on my notebook, still the same happening. Account lockes account after opening the User Accounts console 3 or more times.
And I don't have to to change any settings in there, It even locks out just by opening the User Account icon under the Control Panel.
I will keep on testing this. The notebook has the same Local Security Policy settings to lock out account after 3 bad or failed password attempts.
Very weird!!!!!!
****EDIT**** >>>>>> More testing under the Control Panel. I tried opening other tools from the Control Panel like Power Options, Flash, Java 3 times randomly, then checked my User Account, and no lock outs. So it seems it only just does this when only accessing the USER ACCOUNT tool more times....
****UPDATE**** On my notebook, I disabled the Account Lock Out policy setting. Then I opened the User Accounts again numerous times. No lock outs.
Then changed it back to 3 bad password attempts. Opened User Accounts again numerous times. Account was locked out.
But can someone tell me why would a setting of Account Lockout Policy would or can effect opening the User Accounts icon from the Control Panel???
This really "baffles" me. I would like to know why please.
Because what if for some reason by any chance I would open up the User Accounts panel many times under ONE Windows logon session, and then catches me by surprise that my user account was locked out, and therefore I had to reimage my PC.
Now, I would like to ask if someone can try this out by going into the Local Security Policy editor and set Account Lockout policy to 3 failed bad attempts. Then after that, try opening the User Accounts panel from the Control Panel 3 times and then check your local user account. But make sure you do this with an Admin account so you can unlock yourselfs
I did a search on this BTW - But in my case, I did NOT even do anything in the User Accounts. I just opened it and my account locked out....
Will just have to use the MMC for managing the User Accounts from there instead of from the Control Panel, until someone has a fix for this. Most likely, this is a flaw, but not sure though, just a wild guess.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/6c9f1830-6e79-4bec-819f-16e48b7d7c09/accounts-lock-after-managing-users-through-control-panel?forum=w7itprogeneral
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