Windows 10: Looking for Win 10 workaround help

All,

Computer shop here! Customer brought in a Win 10 gaming box. We have a 20 page book on howto work around issues that block you from fixing a PC. This box is so infected, external peek into the drive gave "Unsafe Windows drive". Login to the box gives total freeze-up without even a cursor.

Login from flash, we normally can bypass the user at bootup with:

rename c:\windows\system32\osk.exe to osk.old ,
then copy cmd.exe to osk.exe,
then reboot and hit the osk icon getting cmd window,
The issue the net user command to create a new admin user and login from there.
but all on this machine produce "access not granted" errors. Tried all the other processes in our "Book of Tricks" no success!

I'm aware, I used to own it back in floppy/CD days, of a hack (would be bootable flash now) that basically does the same thing from flash that the osk rename process does, but allows you to boot as admin and create the new admin user directly.

I'm not finding that in searches, so would appreciate links to where I can download it.

Only other option is a new install, but that will destroy all games and user data. Customer bringing this in does not want a fresh install. Cannot backup as I told you the error I'm getting mounting this drive externally.

All help advise appreciated!

Cheers!

TBNK

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Clean Install Workaround for Vista

You may remember this news story on techPowerUp! a couple of days ago relating to the lack of clean installs when using the Upgrade Editions of Vista, which required an old OS to be installed. However, Paul Thurrott has managed to find a workaround for this issue, which ironically lets users do a clean install Vista without any previous version of Windows, albeit a little tedious. Here are the steps:

• Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD as normal
• When prompted for a product code, leave this blank
• Select the version of Vista you have purchased and let Vista install
• When you boot to your desktop for the first time, run the Vista setup from Windows
• This time enter your product key
• When asked whether you want to do an Upgrade of Custom install, select custom and choose a clean install
• Windows will now install for a second time and you should be able to activate it

Remember, these steps are only advised for use in order to achieve a clean install of Vista, it is only legal to use the upgrade editions if you have previously purchased the appropriate version of Windows.

Source: DailyTech

 

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