Window XP Password policy

Question

Hi, I want to read the values of Account policy of Windows XP programmatically. Source code in C++ (Will be more specific) would be appreciated.

If you have any guidelines then please help me soon.

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

Check out this document here (from Microsoft).

It's an Excel spreadsheet which lists a great deal of registry keys and what they mean, grouped by category.

Note that it says the password policies aren't in the registry, but it does provide pointers to documents that state how to get at them.