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Windows XP password security

I've activated the "password complexity" setting on my Windows XP environment. I want users to come up with a decent password be default.

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"From Microsoft - Enforcing Strong Password Usage Throughout Your Organization:

Passwords must meet complexity requirements determines whether password complexity is enforced. If this setting is enabled, user passwords meet the following requirements:

The password is at least six characters long.

The password contains characters from at least three of the following five categories:

English uppercase characters (A — Z)
English lowercase characters (a — z)
Base 10 digits (0 — 9)
Non-alphanumeric (For example: !, $, #, or %)
Unicode characters"