Help. Locked Out of My Win10 Computer.

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  1. NavyLCDR
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    Windows 11 Pro
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    Use option 5 here:
    Enable or Disable Elevated Administrator account in Windows 10
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  3. zbook
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    windows 10 professional version 1607 build 14393.969 64 bit
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    For the Ubuntu method please display the commands used with results.
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  4. abrogard
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    NavyLCDR said:
    Use option 5 here:
    Enable or Disable Elevated Administrator account in Windows 10
    That looks promising. Do you happen to know would it work okay if I worked from a Kyhi USB stick instead of a win10 installation disk or recovery disk?

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    Then there’s option 5 To Reset Password of your Local Account at Sign-in
    Reset Password of User Account in Windows 10
    In which you can use the answers to your security questions in order to reset your password.
    Have you tried that yet?
    Returning to this for a minute - how come I don't get the password reset options but get this useless password wizard thing instead ? Nothing I can do to change that behaviour perhaps?
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  6. NavyLCDR
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    You should be able to use the command line commands from Kyle's rescue drive.
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  7. abrogard
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    NavyLCDR said:
    You should be able to use the command line commands from Kyle's rescue drive.
    Okay, I'll try it. And if it works where will I be then? Looking at a log in screen with another user listed - the new admin? and I can log in as that? with what password?

    Or on boot it will just automatically log in? What?

    edit: Well I did it using a Kyhi boot.

    And I found it created a new account and put an icon for it on the sign in screen and I was able to log in as that admin without needing a password.

    So then I went to change the password of my own admin account and got a warning that doing that would make some things inaccessible that belonged to that account because MS has designed it that way.

    I had no choice but to change it anyway so I've changed it and logged in with it and so far it seems to function fine.

    I would like more information on just what those areas are that one loses if you get your password changed like this, because of loss or whatever. Then I can foresee that eventuality and do something about it beforehand if necessary.

    I wonder if anyone knows where I could get those details?

    But bottom line: this technique seems to work fine. Thank you for it.
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  8. nurlan
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    Windows 10
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    Help resetting pass.


    I have done the same . The problem is that ntpwedit doesn't see any of my disks. It instead sees
    X disk (X:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SAM) . What could be the problem here? What i am doing wrong? pls help.
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