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Stuck in Safe Mode without Admin Access
I rebooted into safe mode to troubleshoot an unrelated issue and now I am stuck in it. I normally use the facial recognition thing to login, but I do have my Microsoft Account attached to the login, with a password. Despite that, the password does not work at Safe Mode login.
I happened to have a basic user account on my computer which I could login to in safe mode, but I can't run any tools like msconfig because they require admin.
I've tried using a usb drive with Windows 10 on it to get a command prompt and use the bcdedit commands, but they are returning "the boot configuration data store could not be opened." and I'm stymied.
Is there any other way to get back into the computer? I can't believe Microsoft hasn't realized this fatal flaw.