Re: Admin account on Windows XP

From: Dmitrii Zakharov [MSFT] (dmitriiz_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/15/03 

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:20:49 -0800

The password that you tried to set for Admin account didn't meet
requirements specified in your Local Security Policy.
To view these requirements go to Administrative Tools -> Local Security
Policy -> Account Policies -> Password Policy.
Most likely your password didn't satisfy the complexity requirements:

(from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gp/504.asp)
  a.. Does not contain all or part of the user's account name
  b.. Is at least six characters in length
  c.. Contains characters from three of the following four categories:
    a.. English upper case characters (A..Z)
    b.. English lower case characters (a..z)
    c.. Base 10 digits (0..9)
    d.. Nonalphanumeric (For example, !,$#,%)

"SAM" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:05f801c3ab09$df351840$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I renamed the admin account and set a password on the
> local machine running WINDOWS XP Professional. Other
> people use the machine. Today, when I tried to log in
> locally I was unable to. I logged into the Domain and
> tried to change the local password but received the
> following error message:
>
> The following error occured while attempting to set the
> password for user Admin:
>
> The password does not meet the password policy
> requirements. Check the minimum password length, password
> complexity and password history requirements.
>
> What happened and how can I regain access to the local
> admin account? Can anyone help?
>

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