I want to show you how you can take
advantage of a security hole and bypass
the windows logons and how you can reset
your password without any software but I
have a few warnings before I do first is
that it worked for me and so you're
responsible if you proceed to do as I'm
doing to reset your password of anything
that doesn't go right and especially if
you don't do as I do because we're going
to be doing parts of the computers
programming and so let's stay away from
some of those things and not freeze up
our computer or destroy it
second of all if any of your items are
encrypted you'll permanently lose access
to all those files and so you may want
to pay for software or some services to
get what you need and not do this which
brings up a third point I read about
somebody who didn't know they had
encrypted files by the previous coworker
and so and they reset the password they
lost all the files so if you're not sure
then do some homework and to help you
get an idea about encryption or some
basics you can watch my Windows training
video on Windows BitLocker Drive
Encryption so the first thing we want to
do is get Windows into a repair mode
because in that repair mode I'm going to
show you the loophole that will give us
access to the computer to change a few
things and one of those things we want
to change is this button right here the
ease of access that when you click on it
and as for those who have disabilities
where they can check they want to hear
the text on screen read aloud or they
want the items on the screen larger what
we're going to do is change that from
the ease of access to the command window
and select next time when we boot the
computer and click on that button it'll
open up the command window and allow me
to type in a command that will give me
access to reset the user's password and
again to do that we want to put the
windows in to repair mode and you can do
that one of a few ways one is by booting
from the original windows 7 disc by
putting that into your DVD Drive and
when you restart the computer over on
the left hand side you'll have the
repair option but if you don't have
Windows 7 or the windows 7 disc then
what I do is when I restart my computer
about halfway through the boot up
process I press and hold down the power
button I don't just press it I hold it
down until the computer does a force
shutdown which is about 3 to 5 seconds
of holding that power button down and
also I've read somebody who had a laptop
they pulled out the battery
halfway through the boot up and then put
the battery back in and restarted the
laptop and we're able to get the repair
option and so to restart the computer
from the windows login screen let's
click on the arrow and click restart
okay right where it says starting
Windows I'm gonna press and hold down
the power button until it turns black or
it does a force shutdown well there you
go right there and then I'm going to hit
the power button to restart my computer
now because we did a force shutdown in
the middle of it booting up it thinks
that something's wrong so it's going to
give us the option after we restarted
the startup repair option
and it's right there you can see the the
one that's highlighted launch startup
repair recommended and so with the
highlighted or selected all you have to
do is hit the enter key on the keyboard
to start up in the repair mode
and that's all fuzzy let's just go ahead
and jump ahead so you don't have to go
and wait through all that while it's
booting up
okay in this screen right here the
startup repair that may take several
minutes so let's go ahead and jump ahead
of that so we don't have to wade through
all that and suffer with me and you get
to this point eventually and it says do
you want to go ahead and do a system
restore no we don't want to do that go
ahead and click cancel and then it may
take several more minutes we'll go ahead
and jump ahead again
and there it is down at the bottom where
it says view problem details go ahead
and click on that button to expand it
and then go ahead and scroll down to the
bottom of that and we have that last
link down at the bottom with the
extension dot txt that extension or that
link with that extension to that file
that when you click on it is going to
open up the notepad and that's important
because through notepad we're gonna get
access to our computer we don't care
about the file with notepad open let's
just come over here and click on the
file menu and go down to open and hey we
got access now enough to do some damage
what we want to do is go ahead and
select computer and then click on the
Open button and then I've got five
drives you want to choose the tribe that
has your Windows operating system
installed on it typically it's the C
Drive but mine's not the C Drive mine's
the e Drive and so go ahead and double
click on that to open it up and in that
drive we're looking for the windows
folder double click on that and then
everything's sorted alphabetically so
you want to scroll down to the esses and
we want to find the folder called
system32 when you find it go ahead and
double click on it
and then it's only looking for folders
and all those files that have the
extension txt
from txt to all files give it a second
so it can pull up well just a gazillion
of those files here with all those
different extensions and we want to
scroll down it's sorted alphabetically
and find what's called util man
and there it is right there util man
that's the file that when you click on
that button on the login window screen
well we want to rename it first go ahead
and right click on it and left click on
rename and I type in one after it just
give it a new name but not so different
that I don't recognize it when I want to
reset it
but that util man when you click on it
it's that button in the login screen
that opens up the disabilities window
there in any case now does nothing
because we changed the name of it
because it was pointing to that file
that had util man and we want to point
it to a util man file but not that one
remember we want it when we click on it
to open up the command window so next
let's go ahead and scroll up it's sorted
alphabetically to the C's define the
file CMD for command
and there it is you want to go ahead and
make a copy of that by right-clicking on
it and going down and left clicking on
the copy and then after you do that you
want to right-click anywhere and go down
and left click on paste and there we go
you got a copy of the command files so
next we want to rename that by
right-clicking on it left clicking on
rename and we want to go ahead and call
that rename it util man so you see what
we're doing
it's going to look for util man and util
man is going to be the command window
and then that's it just go ahead and
close out of everything close close
close and or close or click finish
restart the computer
you
here we go windows logon screen let's go
ahead and test it by clicking on it
instead of opening up the disabilities
when we click it opens up the command
window awesome now we just have to type
in a command that will give us access to
reset the user passwords and so what you
want to type in is control
control-space user passwords - so two
separate words control space user
passwords - and then go ahead and hit
the enter key on the keyboard
and hey whoa what's this it's all the
users on this computer I got all these
fancy users many users and then all you
have to do is go ahead and choose the
one that you want to reset the password
for I'll do the last one it's that one
over here it's the last one then the
list so I'll go ahead and select that
one click on reset password and you can
type in a password but if you leave a
blank and click okey-dokey has no
password
close out of the command window just
click on it and it will log me in Oh
isn't that fun
okay so once you've got that all squared
away and let's say you want to go ahead
and revert everything back to the way it
was not the password we're talking about
the files that we renamed to util Man 1
we want that back to be util man so when
you click on that ease of access button
it opens up the disabilities window and
not the command window any case to go
ahead and put that all back to the way
it was well you want to watch my Windows
trusted installer training video and
trusted installer is all one word and
the reason why is because it's gonna
take extra steps and I want to hit two
birds with one stone because there are
other people who just want to learn how
to delete rename or edit files and
folders that's owned by the trusted
installer and so I'll show you how to do
that if you want to watch that video how
to reset everything back to the way it
was
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