If you want to require passwords you could use net user command as described
in the link below to manage that setting for the user. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d.../net_user.mspx

"russell_r33" <russellr33@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8E3CA042-725E-4D77-8822-D0A7E2F7600E@microsoft.com...
>I have been having both network and admin problems on a Dell Dimension 4500
> running XP home and somehow managed to cure it by comparing what I thought
> were relevant registry settings with a computer that was working
> correctly -
> however, I am not actually certain what I did. In addition, I now find
> that
> when I run "net user username" for three out of four of the user accounts
> on
> the machine they show the password as being "not required" when in fact it
> is
> required (& requested) when logging on to XP at the workstation. Can
> anyone
> tell me whether this is an important issue that I should fix or is it a
> question of if it seems to work the way I want it to, ignore these
> anomalies?
>
> If I should fix it, how do I go about doing so?
>
> Russell.