- Fire up your system.
- When the screen states "Starting Windows", press the power button.
- Now restart the system, when it boots, you have a choice whether to start normally or Launch Startup Repair. Choose Launch Startup Repair.
- Now, a pop may ask you if you want to use System Restore. Press Cancel.
- After waiting quite some time, you will be told that Startup Repair failed. Click on the down arrow to see the problem details
- Scroll down to the very bottom of the report and click on the link for the offline Privacy Statement
- Notepad opens up, go to File and click on Open
- In the Open Dialog, go to Computer -> Local Disk (This could be C: or D: or the place where you installed Windows) -> Windows -> System32
- Change the File Type from Text Documents to All Files
- Find the application sethc or a file named sethc.exe
- Right Click and rename it to sethc-bak
- Find the application cmd or a file named cmd.exe
- Right Click and copy it
- Now Paste it
- You will get something on the lines of cmd - Copy, right click and rename it to sethc
- Close Notepad and Press Finish (Basically System Shutdown)
- At the login, press Shift Key 5 times
- Voila! You have DOS
- Type net user. This gives you a list of all users.
- Now, type net user username * to reset the password of account username or net user username password to change password of username account.
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