postgres user does not exist yet, its a fresh new installation of windows 7 Home. New HP laptop. there is only my account (admin) and Guest i saw on internet someone had similar problem and this was resolved by removing HP protection tools tha was messing with policies, but i already removed it before. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:02 AM, raghu ram <raghuchennuru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:35 AM, KOTa <kota.alba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> that is what i though, but i tried many different combinations for >> password, and at least 1 of them should satisfy policy requirements. >> also my windows user password, which is accepted by OS and thus >> satisfies the requirements resulted in same message >> >> i did try to see what policy is active, but i am using win 7 Home >> Premium and i could find a way for this version to see/change >> policies. >> the only thing i found is by running "net accounts" from command >> prompt. which shows the following: >> >> http://gyazo.com/be1089b5f0a1ebe6b8037ad9322eac31.png?1342061599 >> >> and those are very simple password policy which all combinations i used >> satisfy > > > Could you please try to reset the "postgres" user password in window7 before > reinstalling the PostgreSQL. Below link gives more information of reseting > password in windows7 > > http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-password-windows-7.htm > > Thanks & Regards, > > Raghu Ram > > EnterpriseDB Corporation > > Blog:http://raghurc.blogspot.in/ > > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general