How to protect account security in Windows XP system three tricks

How to securely protect your account is not an easy task, some users will set the Windows account password too short, do not change the password for a long time, etc. An important killer that affects account security, but now we are technically limited to these general users, which is the magical tool of using Group Policy.

Open the Run dialog in the Start menu and type ">Gpedit.msc" to open the Group Policy Editor and navigate to "Local Computer Policy" "——“Computer Configuration”— —“Windows Settings”——“Security Settings”——“Account Policies”——“Password Policy>, you will find six passwords on the right Set up the project. First double-click "The password must meet the complexity requirements", set it to "already enabled", the password set by the user after the item is enabled can not be simple 111, 123, abc and the like. Then double-click "Last password length", and set its value to 6 or above, which means that the password must be set to 6 characters in the shortest time; another important setting is "The password has the shortest retention period." ”, for example, we set it to 15 days, so when it reaches 15 days, the system will automatically remind us to change the password, which will help the password.

Double Encrypting Accounts I believe many of my friends have set up complex passwords for their accounts, but they still always worry about passwords being cracked by others. In fact, a friend who is worried about this can set double encryption for the account.

Click the "Start” button, open the “Run” dialog box in the menu that appears, type “syskey”Enter to open “guarantee Windows XP account database security”window, This operation is irreversible. Once encryption is enabled, it cannot be disabled. If we directly select the “Enable Encryption” item and click the “OK” button, the program has double encryption for the account, but this The encryption process is transparent to the user.

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