Recent content by smencik

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    Question Stuck in Safe mode - no local account password

    Problem solved. I downloaded and burned to CD Hiren’s BootCD PE x64. I was able to get into BIOS to allow the system to boot from CD, which I did. One of the utilities on that CD is an account/password manager. I was able to connect that to the boot drive SAM, and unlock the hidden Administrator...
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    Question Stuck in Safe mode - no local account password

    You obviously missed the part where I cannot login. Therefore I can't simply re-run msconfig. If I could I wouldn;t have wasted the last 8 hours trying to fix this.
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    Question Stuck in Safe mode - no local account password

    I was debugging another issue and decided to use msconfig to set safe mode boot. Normally I login with my fingerprint. Well safe mode is trying to get my local account, which I have no clue what the password is. If it is trying to use the Windows login, that isn't working because safe mode puts...