Robust your Windows XP system password

;;; How do you set a password for Windows XP? Create a password just in Control Panel → User Account! Maybe you think that the passwords and digits you set are enough to reject the "novice" outside the system, but you will not refuse to leave it outside the safer password rules? What's more, these rules don't require third-party software, and these rules can be operated with just a few mouse clicks and a few values. Closer to home, defining a more secure password rule uses the system's "local security settings" tool, which can be activated by typing "secpol.msc" in "Start → Run". In the tree on the left side of the main window, expand Account Policy → Password Policy. The password rule we want to define is the option displayed in the right panel (as shown in Figure 1)! Figure 1 Local security settings First double-click "Password must meet the complexity requirements", set the security setting to "Enabled", then the password created by the user in "Control Panel → User Account" must contain uppercase and lowercase English, Arabic numerals and Special characters, three types of characters, if one of the characters is not included, a dialog box will pop up. The minimum password length (as shown in Figure 2): The minimum number of digits the user can create a password, you can enter an Arabic number between 0 and 14, and 0 means that the password length created is not required to be detected. Once the password created by the user does not meet the required number of digits, the system will also pop up a dialog box warning. Http://www.fanbingdu.com Figure 2 Password length password maximum retention period (as shown in Figure 3): This option is more interesting, it is the expiration time of setting the password, that is, it must be replaced once within the specified period of time. New password. Of course, setting it to 0 means that the password is never invalid, and the longest cycle time is 999 days. Figure 3 Maximum password retention period

Minimum password retention period (as shown in Figure 4): As opposed to the "Maximum password retention period" option, the minimum time to set the password to survive, during this time The user is not allowed to change the password. Similarly, set to 0 to change the password at any time, the maximum time a password can survive is 998 days.
Figure 4 Minimum password retention period