• LangaList: How to create a Windows admin account in an emergency

    Posted on March 11, 2019 at 03:50 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Can’t get into your Windows PC’s sole admin account? Forgot the password? Does your old admin account no longer have admin privileges? No need to panic.

    There’s a trick.

    You need the Windows Recovery Environment, a series of steps to replace Sticky Keys (!), eye of newt and toe of frog, and some perseverance. Fred Langa takes you through the incantations.

    Out this morning to all AskWoody Plus members, in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.9.0.

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