{"id":474,"date":"2013-05-30T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=474"},"modified":"2024-11-07T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:21:16","slug":"recoverying-w7-admin-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/recoverying-w7-admin-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Recoverying W7 admin user"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across these links when trying to recover a Windows 7 system which had been &#8220;upgraded&#8221;. This was made in 2013 and marked as <em><strong>deprecated<\/strong> <\/em>in 2023.\u00a0 We had lost the one admin user password and a shell had been installed in the Admin user.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I logged into the BIOS and added the DVD as a legacy device.<\/p>\n<p>I used the install disk to open up a command window.\u00a0 I then used trick No 4. &#8220;Use the Sticky Keys trick to reset the Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP password&#8221; from this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231203142412\/https:\/\/4sysops.com\/archives\/three-ways-to-reset-a-windows-vista-admin-password\/\" rel=\"dofollow\">12 ways how to reset the Windows administrator password \u2013 Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP<\/a>\u00a0 which takes you to this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240517215211\/https:\/\/4sysops.com\/archives\/forgot-the-administrator-password-the-sticky-keys-trick\/\">The Sticky Keys Trick<\/a>. This allowed me to reset the password.<\/p>\n<p>I then <a title=\"autorunsc at technet\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/sysinternals\/bb963902.aspx\">downloaded autorunsc<\/a> which can be run from my emergency cmd shell. ( I downloaded it using a non admin user and copied the files to my emergency directory and run the program from my emergency shell.) It opens as a windows program. I was then able to delete the startup link for the crapware.<\/p>\n<p>I was then able to use the admin user to remove the crapware.<\/p>\n<p>I reset the sticky key program and then deleted the DVD as legacy device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across these links when trying to recover a Windows 7 system which had been &#8220;upgraded&#8221;. This was made in 2013 and marked as deprecated in 2023.\u00a0 We had lost the one admin user password and a shell had been installed in the Admin user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1184,911,913,107],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-deprecated","tag-technology","tag-w7","tag-windows"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/W7-internetmatters_org-w1024.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11699,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/11699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}