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Getting out of diagnostic boot OR starting credential svc w/o admin
So my laptop was given to me by a family member and I created a new standard user account for myself while using their pin to do admin things.
Today I was trying to minimize what loaded at startup and kind of accidentally restarted in diagnostic mode. Problem is it disabled credential manager (along with everything else) and now the pin doesn't work, and I don't know the password, nor does the person who gave it to me remember it, so I can't do any admin task. Can't get back into msconfig to switch back to normal boot, cant enable the credential service, cant use system restore or bcdedit, im not even sure if I can reset as a last resort without the password.
Im just stuck with a basically unusable PC. Any ideas?