Windows’ semi-secret “back door” still exists!

All current Windows, including Win10 20H2, contain an old, sneaky workaround that lets you log in to a PC even if the usernames and passwords are scrambled, unknown, or forgotten.

You can even use this method to create a new administrator account on a PC that doesn’t have one and then use that new account to log on and perform recovery or repair operations.

Plus: Win8/10’s free, automated, Robust File Copy — Robocopy — to the rescue!

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.10.0 (2021-03-15).

Also in this issue:

  • PUBLIC DEFENDER: A $1,000 hot technology? It’s quite a steal.
  • LINUX: Windows and Linux interoperability
  • PATCH WATCH: March madness drives printers to blue screen
  • BEST OF THE LOUNGE: March patching madness begins

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Fred Langa

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