• Windows’ semi-secret “back door” still exists!

    Posted on March 15, 2021 at 01:06 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    Fred Langa

    By Fred Langa

    All current Windows, including Win10 20H2, contain an old, sneaky workaround that lets you log in to a PC even if the usernames and passwords are scrambled, unknown, or forgotten.

    You can even use this method to create a new administrator account on a PC that doesn’t have one and then use that new account to log on and perform recovery or repair operations.

    Plus: Win8/10’s free, automated, Robust File Copy — Robocopy — to the rescue!

    Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.10.0 (2021-03-15).

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