Once enabled, Sticky Keys (Wikipedia info) serializes those keystrokes so users can press keys one by one, in succession. Some people have trouble with keystroke combinations - take for example, simultaneously pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL to bring up Task Manager or to reboot.

Sticky Keys, introduced way back in Windows 95, is an accessibility feature. It uses Windows’ Sticky Keys function as a back door to spoof the OS. This method is an updated version of an ancient, very well-known hack that dates back to the early days of Windows. In all these and similar cases, the following hack can usually get you in. Or you acquire a PC of unknown provenance, and you don’t want to access the existing accounts because they might contain malware or other problematic content. Or, let’s say a co-worker/friend/family member asks for help with accessing, repairing, or recovering a PC, but they’ve lost the needed account information. Here are some examples: Say you’re faced with accessing a PC that boots, but whose badly scrambled sign ins make it impossible to access all local user accounts.

(Any competent hacker already knows about this trick.) Yes, this hack has the potential for misuse - I’ll come back to this later - but it’s also a powerful, last-ditch method that can be used legitimately to repair, recover, or restore systems that are beyond the reach of normal rescue methods. It involves a new way to take advantage of an ancient security vulnerability (dating to Windows 95!) that lets you trick the OS into opening a system-level command environment. This unofficial hack can give you full administrator access to Windows, even if a PC’s accounts and passwords are mangled, unknown, or blocked.

The original, verbatim, un-updated text follows: How to hack a ‘back door’ into Win10, 8, and 7īy Fred Langa on Augin Insider Tricks, Top Story (I’m reprinting selected Windows Secrets columns here to help ensure readers can find and access information I’m referencing in new columns until older Windows Secrets/LangaList columns are moved to their new home at .)

Today, it supplements a new column, scheduled for the MaAskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. The column below was originally published in the August 18, 2016, Windows Secrets newsletter.

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