Boot Some Flavor of Linux Live CD

Insert CD/DVD into drive and reboot the machine. Start your Live DVD. You may need to go into the BIOS screen and change the boot-up order to CD/DVD drive first, HDD second.

Step 2Navigate to Sys32

Use the file browser in your Linux environment, navigate to%windir%/system32/. You may have to right-click and mount the Windows partition/drive first or use the NTFS-3G command.

Step 3Rename Magnify.exe

Find and rename magnify.exe (Magnifier file) to magnify.old.

Step 4Rename cmd.exe

Find and rename cmd.exe to magnify.exe.

Step 5Shut Down Linux & Reboot Windows

Logout, remove DVD, and reboot into Windows.

Step 6Get CMD Prompt Modify Accounts

When Windows reboots, click on the ease of access button in the bottom left corner.

Click magnify and hit apply. Ta da. You have a system level command prompt. At this point is where we will only change the Admin password and not any of the 1000 other things that could be done at this point!

Tip: You can right-click on cmd.exe and click run as administrator inside of Windows for escalated privileges. To edit files, it would never be allowed at basic admin level (caution).

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(Hacked system level command prompt. -Cx2H)

As the photo above shows, typenet user to get a list of accounts. To the point type: net user administrator *

Your Options (Choose One That Applies):

Change Password:
net user username new_password
When you do so, the password changes without prompting you again.

Add an account:
net user username password /add
Tip: If your username has a space, like John Doe, use quotes like “John Doe”.

Admin that:
net localgroup administrators username /add

Delete that:
net user username /delete

Remote Desktop Users Group: (just in case)
net localgroup Remote Desktop Users UserLoginName /add

Net User Syntax Reference:
net user commands
Domain i.e. Servers:
net user for domain

Step 7Reboot Linux & Fix magnfiy.exe

Now you should insert your Linux Live CD/DVD and rename the files back to original names or you will have issues later.

  1. Repeat Step 1
  2. Repeat Step 2
  3. Rename magnify.exe back to cmd.exe
  4. Rename magnify.old back to magnify.exe
  5. Log out, take out CD/DVD USB, reboot into Windows

                                  thnks

by anonymous