Do Not Make Your Password Is Too Short

Create a password is sometimes confusing us. If the password is too long will make it difficult to remember but on the other hand, if too short will be easy to guess at other people. So, I suggest in making the password, not too short! But unfortunately, Windows XP has been configuring the system so that users can create a password with no minimum to character number, including one character. And ti will make your system be fragile. For that we need to configure it so that Windows XP users who reject the password is too short. This is for security reasons. The core of this article is force user to set their password with minimum character that you want.

In this case I will set it to 8 charaters (So, you must enter 8 characters for password every time you set a new user and password).
And here are the steps to configure it:

Open Control Panel via Start -> Control Panel menu.
Open Administrative Tools, you can open it by double click Administrative Tools icon that located inside Control Panel.
After Administrative Tools is open, double click Local Security Policy.
Inside Local Security Policy, click Password Options.
Find Minimum password length (as you see Windows XP has set it to 0 charaters as default value), double click it to open its properties window.
After Minimum password length Properties is opened,

replace with value that you want, click OK button (in this case, I give it value: 8).
You’ll bring back to main screen and you will see that the value has changed to value as you enter.
Now, try to make a new account by open Computer Management that located in Administrative Tools too.
And click User folder that located at left panel of Computer Management.
Right click an empty space on right panel.
Enter the account name and the other required fields, when you enter the password try to enter with 3 characters,

you’ll get a error message.
Now, try to enter password with 8 characters or more… then the new account will save successfully.