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We have a local PC with preinstalled Windows 10, and we want to use a program which requires some files to be copied to system32.

It's not possible because it requires administrator privileges which we don't have. We only have standard user account.

I tried all the options I could find on the internet Using Windows installation disc, trying to call prompt on login screen, trying with SAM, but nothing worked. It looks totally locked.

Utilman, CMD, sethc, don't work at all. I can't produce command prompt on login. I can't enable administrator built in account as I don't have permission.

Seems like there's no way to find or change the admin password. It's rather strange, considering it is so easy to reset root password in Linux, while here you are sitting in front of Windows desktop and can't do a thing.

I just want to make things easier, and I hope someone had similar experience with this

Ahmed Hossam
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I can recommend you to have a look at this. https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

I used this tool multiple times to enable the default Administrator or to remove the Password of the current local admin. I remember using both the non GUI and the GUI version of this.

On the GUI version you need to use NTPWEdit under Security > Passwords.
It's pretty self explanatory.

After you are done, please disable the default Administrator or set a password to the local admin account for security.

Also only use this if nobody in your company has the admin login credentials or a way of getting access to it. Not that it's forbidden but it should be considered as a last resort.

Also I recommend to be sure that you need to put anything into the system32 folder since it could be any other location and just needs to be coded into whatever program it is you guys are using.

VarmintLP
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