@jleo
RE: How to stop QB from requiring a password change every 90 days.
I don't know of a way to stop it, but you can easily defeat it (which of course makes it a stupid thing for Intuit to have added to QuickBooks.)
QuickBooks remembers the last 5 passwords you used (or their hash value or something.) So, to continue using the same password you want to use, all you have to do is change the password five times and then you can change it back to the desired password.
To do this, pick Company | Change Your Password from the QuickBooks menu and then enter a new password. Repeat 4 more times, each time entering a new password, and then once more to re-enter your fave password.
I do this by entering an easy password with a sequence number. For example, QuickBooks will accept the worst password ever, "Password1". So I enter that and then repeat the process and enter "Password2" and so on until I get to "Password5" and then finally I re-enter the password I've been using, the one I want to use.
Each time you change your password in this way, QuickBooks will automatically close and then reopen the company file without input.
Note that if you're the Admin and you want to change your password (or someone else's), you can do this on the Users and Roles window when using Enterprise or the ~same window titled User List using Pro and Premier:
To get there, pick Company | Users | Set Up Users and Roles (Enterprise) or Company | Set Up Users and Passwords (Pro/Premier) to open the window. Then, to change the password, select the user and click Edit. When doing it this way, QuickBooks won't close and open the file each time, so it's faster. I use this method and it takes me about a minute to complete the process. So, four minutes a year.
