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#How to ruin someone running Win10 at a LAN party 101#

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#I take no responsibility for any damage done#

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#No but really don't be a dick!!#

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Step 1: Restart the system

Press and hold the power button while booting until the system turns off (it won’t cause any damage).

Restart. Windows would launch an Automatic repair

Windows automatic repair

Step 2: Go to Advanced options

If you did it correctly, you should get this screen. Select “Advanced Options”

automatic repair advanced options

Step 3: Select Troubleshoot

troubleshoot

Step 4: Select System Image Recovery / Command Prompt

This will allow us to browse a recovery image on the Hard drive

Click on System Image Recovery and continue to Step #5.

system image recovery

Next

Previous

Step 5: Click Cancel

We do not want to Retry and find the system image. So, click Cancel

cancel

Step 6: Click “Next >”

next

Step 7: Click Install a driver

Option says “Locate and install driver…”. Let’s locate

install a driver

Step 8: Click “Ok”

Yeah, we will SELECT THE DRIVER.

add driver - ok

Step 9: Browse to C:/Windows/System32

By default X:/System32 is selected. In order to make changes, go to System32 of Local Disk(C:) i.e the Windows drive.

Your system drive may vary

browse c drive-system32

Step 10: Clone cmd

Press CTRL-c and CTRL-v to make a copy of cmd

Use Keyboard only

clone cmd

Step 11: Rename sethc

Left click on sethc and press <f2> to rename sethc to sethc1

Right clicking anywhere lead me crashing the browsing window. May be Windows trying to defend, but we are going to get Admin access anyway.

rename sethc to sethc1

Step 12: Rename cmd – Copy.exe

Rename cmd – Copy to sethc

Press <f5> to see the changes made. Interface is kind of Lame.

rename cmd to sethc

Step 13: Continue to Windows 10 boot

Time to boot Windows 10…

continue to Windows 10

Step 14: Open command prompt [Sticky Keys Method]

Press <Shift> 5 times to launch command prompt (sethc.exe).

Note the title bar

open command prompt-sticky keys method

Step15: Reset admin password

Here we can reset password in 2 ways

Using GUI

Using command line