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Nullabillity on Nov 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows 10 in-place upgrades are a severe security...

This is a privilege escalation bug that lets you reset the admin password, but it doesn't give you the old password.

cmdrfred on Nov 29, 2016 | [–]

You might be able to get the hash via mimikatz.

sammydavis on Nov 30, 2016 | [–]

I want to block my young teen-aged son from hacking into his time-locked win 7 (soon win 10). He already searched the web and found some kind of system restore scheme to reset his password. Next step was to encrypt the hard drive to block rebooting without password.

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