How to change account lockout threshold for local accounts and windows. Worried about brute force login attempts on Windows devices. Adjusting the account lockout threshold can help secure your local accounts against unauthorized access. In this video, we'll be covering the step-by-step process of how to change the account lockout threshold for local accounts in Windows. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to Ninja One's IT Video Hub and our YouTube channel for more tech content like this. What is the account lockout threshold? The account lockout threshold on Windows is a setting that limits failed login attempts and prevents unauthorized access. Once the limit is reached, the account becomes inaccessible for a set duration 30 minutes by default or until it is manually reset, depending on policy. Knowing how to adjust this threshold can help IT teams strengthen and regulate their system security posture and safeguard confidential data. An optimized threshold prevent cyber attacks while ensuring productivity for users. Changing account lockout threshold for local accounts In Windows, you can change the account lockout threshold using either the local group policy editor or the command prompt. You can use the local group policy editor to change the local account lockout threshold. If you're operating on Windows 10 Pro enterprise and education editions, you'll also need administrator privileges to adjust the threshold with this method. Follow these steps, press win plus R to open the run command. Then type gp edit. Do MSC and press enter. This will open the local group policy editor. Navigate to computer configuration, window settings, security settings, account policies, account lockout policy, double click account lockout threshold. Enter a value between zero and 999 to set the number of invalid sign in attempts a user can make before getting locked out. Once set a window will pop up to confirm a default lockout duration and reset the timeframe. Confirm or modify the default lockout duration as needed. Finally, click okay to apply like the previous method, changing the lockout policy with command prompt requires administrator access to use this method. Follow these steps, open the command prompt and enter the command. Replace value with your desired number of failed attempts allowed, your lockout threshold should now be changed. You can verify the changes by running the command. For more information, check out our official blog post on how to Change Account lockout threshold for local accounts in Windows linked in the description below.