What they had written for getting the Recovery Manager was not correct.Īfter the initial boot screen (with ' for boot menu' at the bottem) disappeared I pressed Alt-F10 and after a minute got a 'Gateway Recovery Management' screen with a 'Restore from factory default' option. This tip was not in my Gateway starter guide. I had tried a lot of different things F8 and Repair your computer, Repair Startup problems, downloaded a Rocovery CD, etc., and nothing seemed to work until this method. My compurter started to reset in the middle of the boot processs. A lot of useless searching (much of it a Gateway) and finally came up with that useful tip. This should allow you to strip the password off of the other account, from the control panel.'Hurray! Shouts out to Frys Guy!!!!! I got my Gateway back running after using his Alt-F10 tip. On next boot, the administrator account will be gone Remove the administrator account by opening a Command Prompt window as administrator, and typing the command “net user administrator /active:no” then press enterĪ.Shutdown the PC, and remove the USB drive.Undo the changes to the System32 folder by renaming magnify1 to magnify, and magnify to cmd.Boot back into the recovery window using the USB drive.Select the user account you need to access.Press the Windows key+R to bring up the Run window.Press enter, the prompt should tell you the command completed successfully Type the command “net user administrator /active:yesĪ.This will bring up a command prompt with admin access On the sign in screen, select ease of access icon.Navigate to the cmd file, and rename it Magnify.Navigate to the Magnify file, and rename it Magnify1.Select the System Drive, then This PC, then Windows, then System32.When the Re-Image your Computer screen comes up, select next.On the bottom left, select repair computer.On the first Windows install screen, select next.Press the key for the boot menu, usually f8 To access the boot menu, boot into BIOS by mashing f2 or delete immediately after pushing the power button.ī. The first thing you need to do is create a Windows install USB or Disc.

I should start by saying that this does not work with Bitlocker protected boot drives. It will allow you to open a command prompt from the login screen, and that can let you into the computer. There is a way to change the passwords of Windows 10 PCs by messing with System32 files.

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