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I don’t know about now, but in the past accessing an account was as easy as resetting the password in safe mode. I have done this numerous times when I worked in IT for people who forgot their passwords. It was such a stupid simple workaround. It wouldn’t surprise me if such workarounds still exist in win 10 and previous.



The thing is, if you enable hard drive encryption (BitLocker in Windows?), resetting the password means that you lose access to the encrypted bits.




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