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[–] tool 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just cleared the SAM password altogether. Windows is trivially easy to break into if you have physical access and the volume isn't encrypted.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My go-to solution is to simply replace some kind of accessibility feature executable, such as onscreen keyboard, with cmd.exe. It runs under SYSTEM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does SYSTEM have enough permission to write to the SAM file?