I have a stand alone windows 2000 machine SP4 that I am trying to set up a password policy to not allow blank passwords. I went into local security policy and set minimum password length to 8 and that works when I try to create a user with a blank password using computer management, but if I create a user from user accounts in control panel it allows me to create the user with no password. How can I restrict users with a blank password? Thanks in advance.