Windows has user account which can be of computer administrator's or other users of that computer. If you have a administrator account in your computer and you had set some restrictions for other users due to some reasons like keeping the data confidentiality and protecting other aspects on that computer. Then naturally some of the user can wish to remove those restriction by logging into your administrator account. Obviously, they wouldn't know the password but they can guess that by trying several login attempts.
Now, you will need to add some restrictions for login attempts for those type of user. Account lockout policy is the security feature that lock a account for a set time after number of failed login attempts set by you.
Windows operating system has already this feature, all you need to do is to configure it according to your convenience and use. In this post I will suggest you how to configure it.
HOW TO SET ACCOUNT LOCKOUT SECURITY FEATURE.
I will explain you to setup account lockout feature for Windows 7 and it will be similar for few previous version of Windows like Windows XP.
Any user of a computer can set this account lock for the own user account.
Follow the step below :
- Go to Control Panel and then select Administrative Tools.
- Now, open Local Security Policy.
- Now Local Security Policy window will open, click on Security Setting >>Account Policies in the left panel of this window.