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article imageMicrosoft says Your Password Must Be at Least 18,770 Characters

Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Chris V. (cgull) in Entertainment | 7 comments | 567 views
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Microsoft says your 17,145 character password is not sufficient; it must be at least 18,770 characters minimum. Plus it cannot repeat any of the previous 30,689 passwords you have set.
Microsoft gives a solution for one of the common error message encountered in Windows 2000 operating system. Many users encounter the following error Message:

Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords

First of all to set a password with a length of 17,145 characters is ridiculous and then Microsoft suggests that is not enough, it needs a larger password with 18,770 characters. So, everyone has to reset the password and make sure they enter the correct password in both the boxes, the second box for verification purpose. This new change has been introduced in the Microsoft's new patch SP1.

To resolve the above error the user must update to the latest windows patch available at Microsoft. Assuming there are 3,958 characters in a page, it requires only 4.5 pages to have this new password. Thank God the banks don't demand this requirement, by the time we enter the password it will time us out of its site.

This page has been there since January of this year and Microsoft has yet to update it.
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  • avatar Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
    #1
    As you say, cgull, this is totally ridiculous. Who in their right mind came up with a password requirement to be 18,770 characters long? Wow, this is just incredible.
  • avatar Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Chris V. (cgull)
    #2
    @ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
    As you say, cgull, this is totally ridiculous. Who in their right mind came up with a password requirement to be 18,770 characters long? Wow, this is just incredible.
    Microsoft spends a lot of money on fixing the errors, I think this error slipped them big time.
  • avatar Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Eric S. Wyatt
    #3
    Wait. There are people using Windows 2000?

    :-)

    Funny story. Too bad the error message didn't say, "you can't repeat any letters or symbols".
  • avatar Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Chris V. (cgull)
    #4
    @ Eric S. Wyatt
    Wait. There are people using Windows 2000?

    :-)

    Funny story. Too bad the error message didn't say, "you can't repeat any letters or symbols".
    But it says, it cannot repeat any previous passwords, so it has to be unique :)
  • avatar Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
    #5
    @ Chris V. (cgull)
    But it says, it cannot repeat any previous passwords, so it has to be unique :)

    Who could actually get 18,770 text characters exactly the same a second time? This is really funny actually.
  • avatar Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Chris V. (cgull)
    #6
    @ Carolyn E. Price (gohomelaker)
    Who could actually get 18,770 text characters exactly the same a second time? This is really funny actually.
    If it says there is an error in the password, there is no way to find out where the mistake is, it will be real frustrating :)
  • avatar Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Bob Ewing
    #7
    Microsoft strikes again.

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