You can also create a Windows installer USB stick, boot off of that, and start a command line to access the installed Windows system. There you can copy CMD.exe over the file path of the accessibility options app.
Then boot back to your installed system’s login screen, hit the button for accessibility options, and you have a working command line on the installed system you can use to reset your admin password.
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Knusper@feddit.de 1 year agoI know, this is easier said than done for someone unfamiliar with this stuff, but maybe still good to know that this is an option in future:
You can prepare a “Linux Live USB” and select in the BIOS that it should boot off of that.
It’ll start a complete OS off of that USB, so you can access the hard drive (assuming you didn’t enable disk encryption) and at the very least backup your files, or sometimes even resolve whatever keeps you from accessing Windows.
superkret@feddit.de 1 year ago
bort@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
This sort of nonsense right here is why infosec people warn about having physical access to machines
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Remember: Those were probably the times of a single computer at home and having a spare laptop somewhere ready for that is not the default.
RustySharp@programming.dev 1 year ago
Those were the times when I had to pull out my hard drive, ride my bike to my best mate’s house, and plug it into their PC so I could finish up a report due the next day. All because Windows 95 didn’t shut down cleanly and refused to boot.