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Also I have just tested this, if you hold down the power button on your pc when windows starts to boot until it shuts off 3 times you will get into the recovery menu and can get a option for boot safe mode with command prompt. when the cmd opens type in regedit and follow my guide.
Probably not bricked, but your account may be locked out pending a forced password reset. They did that to be about 2 months back, I had been using a 7-digit only password, and they wanted 8. If you can log in to Windows Live or Outlook.com (from anywhere, coffee shop, internet kiosk, etc), they should prompt you to reset your password as you log in.
OK so I think I found a solution guys, the same thing happened to me just now while upgrading from W7 to W10 (and it also inverted my screen lol wtf?). So my password which had one capital letter in it wasn't recognised at all. Just type your password all lower case, it worked for me.
If you have a phone or a Cellular tablet you could use either to recover your PWs, maybe a classmate has an iPhone you could borrow to do it with? Unless you need to have Networking on your PC in order to accept a changed PW. If you use an MS account to log in, is it blocked if there is no Network connection?
I very nearly fell foul of this issue on a PC that is often offline. WTF were Microsoft thinking when they came up with the idea of logging in with a password from an online account?
I normally run with passwords disabled anyway, the only reason I even enter one is to access a PC from the network.