Error Message: Your Password Is Too Short This article was written about products for which Microsoft no longer offers support. Therefore, this article is offered "as is" and will no longer be updated.
This article was previously published under Q178824 SYMPTOMS
After you change your domain password, you may receive the following error
message:
Your password is too short.
You may receive this error message even though the password you typed is
the correct length.
CAUSE
This problem can occur if you log on to a domain that requires a "strong"
password, and you did not type both uppercase and lowercase letters. A
strong password is a password that consists of six or more characters, has
numeric characters, and has both uppercase and lowercase letters.
STATUS
This problem no longer occurs in Windows 98. To resolve this problem, install the current version of Windows. For information about the current version of Windows, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows (http://www.microsoft.com/windows).
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