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Please follow the instructions to activate the built-in administrator on Windows 10 without signing in
Firstly, Kindly prepare installation media (a DVD or USB flash drive). This Forum Article explains how to create the media.
How to create Windows 10 installation DVD/USB flash drive Step-by-Step Guide
1.After a installation USB is created, attach the USB to the PC. Turn on the PC and you may press F12 key to bootfrom your Windows 10 installation USB. After Windows setup has started, you have to press SHIFT+F10 key to open a command prompt.
2.In the command prompt, type the command below and press Enter.
regedit
3.Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE(or HKEY_USERS- your choose. In this example I've chosen HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) .
4.Go to Filemenu and choose load hiveoption
it will open new window and in that navigate to drive where your OS is installed and go to <boot partition>\Windows\System32\config
in this example it is C:\Windows\System32\config
5.Choose SAMfile and click Open
6.Next appear Key Namebox,type the name whatever you want i.e REM_SAM
7.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\REM_SAM\SAM\Domains\Accounts\Users\000001F4key and double click on string F,
it will open table with hexadicimal numbers
Build-in Administrator is disabled
8.In this table find 11number (8th line,first column in table -images),click to the right of it,press backspace and the 11disappear and insert the 10in this place
Build-in Administrator is enabled
9.Close box,the whole regedit and restart computer.
10.Log on to build-in Administrator account and now you can try to fix problem dependce from situation -fix your account,reset password for your account or create new admin account
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