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There is the trick to boot from another media, rename utilman.exe (in system32) to something else, copy cmd.exe to utilman.exe. Reboot to original installation,
by yuhong 12y ago
There is the trick to boot from another media, rename utilman.exe (in system32) to something else, copy cmd.exe to utilman.exe. Reboot to original installation, then Win-U will open a command prompt. use net user username password /add then net localgroup administrators username /add to create a new local account. Don't forget to rename your backup of utilman.exe back afterwards. You may have to take ownership then change permissions in order to do so.
- RexRollman 12y agoWhen my father died last year, I came into possession of his laptop, which was secured by s MS account. While the hack you are talking about allowed me to create a second admin account and recover files, it would not allow me to reset his personal Microsoft account password.