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Shailendra On July - 8 - 2009

You can force Windows to reject passwords that do not meet a minimum password length. Useful to help stop people from using trivial passwords where security is an issue.

Open your registry and find the key below, if the Network sub-key does not already exist then create it.

Create a new binary value named ‘MinPwdLen‘, and set the data to the minimum number of characters required for a password to be accepted.

Note: This does not apply to existing passwords, only new or changed.

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REGISTRY SETTINGS:

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Network]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Network]
Value Name: MinPwdLen
Data Type: REG_BINARY (Binary Value)

The good thing is it works for all versions of windows :wink:

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Categories: Registry, Security

One Response to " Set the Minimum Password Length in Windows "

  1. Borellus says:

    Sweet, I was thinking of doing this on my PC.

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