this is the tech breaking tour and what
I have for you today is a cheap laptop
purchased off an online retailer and
there is nothing particularly fancy
about this laptop now I say laptop but
this is more of a tablet with a keyboard
and hinge strapped to it in any case
let's see what it takes to break into
this laptop but before I do that let's
power up the machine and take a look
inside
upon booting up the machine we are met
with a familiar sight the Windows 10
login screen let's have a look at the
password to see if we can't take a crack
at it and get lucky nope that password
is incorrect
first I loaded this 8 gigabyte flash
drive that I found in my trash can with
a Windows 10 installation then I booted
up the machine and mash the Delete key
to select the Boot Options menu
some computers have this on f10 f11 f12
f8 f2 f1 f3 f4 f5 f6 and so I mashed all
of these keys at the same time just to
be sure I still don't know which key was
the right one but it seems to have
worked
we're now in the boot up media for the
installation as this is a tablet
computer the screen seems to be rotated
the wrong way let's fix that right now
clumsily navigate the installation with
the terrible traqpath until you see the
repair your computer option in the
bottom left corner once there we want to
hit troubleshoot as this gives us access
to command prompt so next we're going to
open command prompt now that we have
command prompt this laptops pretty much
done for the first thing I'll do is go
straight to existing 32 and override the
util man executable with the command
prompt for older versions of Windows
this used to be the narrator all that's
left to do now
was to restart the computer now it's
time to see the fruits of our labor down
in the bottom right corner hit the ease
of access button and suddenly a command
prompt shows itself windows was also
kind enough to make sure that this
command prompt window launches as
administrator so we can execute any
command that we wish without being
logged in unfortunately that is not a
good thing as what I'm about to do is
enable the administrator account on this
laptop now we won't be able to get into
any Windows accounts without their
passwords but we can get into the laptop
itself using the built-in administrator
account just one restart of the PC to
enable the account and we should be good
to go after rebooting the machine will
notice there is a second account at the
bottom left corner called administrator
use this account to log in when you
don't know your Microsoft password this
computer however uses a local account so
we can just reset the password now let's
see if we're able to log into the
computer we're going to type in the
password that we just set in the command
prompt and it looks like we've gained
access I'll leave the video running so
that you know there hasn't been any cuts
in the footage
and we now have access to this user
account keep in mind this only works
with local user accounts but if you have
a Windows Microsoft account you can log
in using the administrator account like
I showed you earlier let's play some
minecraft looks like I need a Microsoft
account for that in any case that's all
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