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ERROR_PASSWORD_EXPIRED
What ERROR_PASSWORD_EXPIRED means
ERROR_PASSWORD_EXPIRED is returned when Windows has accepted the account identity but the account's password lifetime has ended. This is an account-policy state, not evidence that the password text was mistyped and not a reason to disable password policy globally.
What to check
- Identify whether the failing credential belongs to a local account, an Active Directory account, a service, or an unattended task.
- Record the account name, logon type, target computer or domain, and the policy source that determines password age.
- For domain accounts, verify the effective password policy and the account's password-change state on a domain controller rather than relying on cached workstation UI.
Recovery
Change the password through the supported account-management or logon flow, then update any service, scheduled task, application pool, stored credential, or other component that still uses the old secret. If the account should not be subject to ordinary password expiration, correct that account's intended policy deliberately; do not turn off expiration for unrelated users merely to clear this result.
If changing the password does not clear the failure, capture the next returned status separately. A disabled account, locked account, trust-account misuse, or authentication-path failure is a different condition and should not be folded into ERROR_PASSWORD_EXPIRED.
Official references for ERROR_PASSWORD_EXPIRED
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