Log in prompts me to change password about every two weeks, completed that yesterday and was good. This morning password didn't work, old password neither. It was entered in correctly. Tried MS account on phone, changed password but didn't link to PC. Called my AVG troubleshooting on retainer but they can't access w/o my log in. I asked AVG tech to refer MS tech number which I called. They said may have been suspicious activity but no reason to update password every two weeks. Refer to uplevel tech and CC#, called back twenty minutes. They did same password reset I did to no effect, they said PC account wasn't linked because local access. WTF, MS can't make that happen? Suspicious now... spoof site? Tech says can't reinstall Win 10 w/o losing all files, data etc. Buy new Win 10 disc install or put computer in repair shop to keep my files. Nothing else they can do. I know I'm berkeleyed, how bad tho? What to do next?
Brian
UltraDork
1/25/18 5:50 p.m.
try a linux based password bypass USB drive. that may get you in.
My work desktop and laptop have both had a Win 10 password issue lately.
On the laptop, I was able to get in by turning the wifi off. It logged in normally. Then I turned the wifi on and was able to get to the network files.
That got me by until the IT guys did their thing on both machines.
Might try unplugging the network connection.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Burn ISO to Disk or USB.
Boot and reset local admin password
I had this happen. It was a corrupted sector in the registry file for the user account.
I had a corrupt registry six months ago but it was partitioned off and been working ok. That may very well be the problem but no tech thought so.
Might as well just buy new and have the files transferred rather than fix this one and transfer to new later.
PC repair shops don't answer and don't return calls evidently. Down for the count it looks.
berkeleying E36 M3 sandwich.
Brian said:
try a linux based password bypass USB drive. that may get you in.
Specifically this one:
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
Edit: Ultimate Boot CD could also work.
