Windows 10: Win 10 Laptop Access when you can't access MS account

Trying to help a friend out whose son passed away. His laptop is set up to use a MS account, but his Mom cannot change the p/w as she does not know the correct response to security questions. There does not seem to be any local account created on the device.

I'd like to her them regain access to his files locally, but she has stated that if this is not possible she would like to at least be able to use the laptop by resetting the device. I do not have a Win 10 disk, but tried unsuccessfully to access device by creating a Win10 utility disk, booting off of it and entering following commands at command prompt in order to create a new local user:


move d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe.bak

copy d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe


wpeutil reboot


After this tried to use NET USER to create a new user, unsuccessful.


Any thoughts would be most welcome. Thank you.

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Access to MS account

An employee was recently dismissed and we now do not have the passwords to either the laptop, or the MS account. Being a local party Association, it is imperative that we gain access to ensure that any data cannot be accessed by the now ex employee.
Any suggestions?

 

User accounts in VB2005 from MS Access

Access has a list of words not to use as column names, but if you must, you'll need to use brackets in your sql statement. I'm unsure of the list of words, but the line of code appears valid. Try using this:

Dim sqlString As String = "INSERT INTO USERS ([USERNAME], [PASSWORD]) VALUES ('" & usernameString & "', '" & passwordString & "')"

Perhaps its password that's causing the issue.

You could also try renaming the columns within the access database. I ran into this issue when I used the word time as a column name.

 

User accounts in VB2005 from MS Access

I wasn't suggesting moving the result of the replace back to the textbox.

More like Dim sqlString As String = "INSERT INTO USERS ([USERNAME], [PASSWORD]) VALUES ('" & replace(textbox1.text, "'", "''") & "', '" & replace(textbox2.text, "'", "''") & "')".

And I think the whole issue was the closing bracket I forgot *Smile At least with Accdb (2007) files you don't have to use those [Access brackets] when accessing data from .NET. Not sure if that's forced with mdb files though.