Everything is Manipulatable

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When working on the task scheduler issue I previously posted, I managed to lock myself out of my computer. It’s been a long time since I have done that. I had some research to do. These days that means querying an LLM but I actually didn’t find this answer through them. Good ol’ Reddit solved it.

See, on the Windows login screen, there is a button for the Ease of Access settings. If you click it, it will run an .exe called utilman.exe. This password recovery process involves you booting from the USB, opening the command-line, backing up utilman.exe, creating a copy of cmd.exe, renamed as utilman.exe. Now when you boot back to Windows, you can access the command prompt from the login screen by clicking Ease of Access and resetting your password.

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Everything is Manipulatable