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Keith Dsouza June 10, 2008 at 8:41 am

Quite a scary trick and rightly said that administrators will surely benefit by being aware of this trick

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jay June 10, 2008 at 2:12 pm

nice post.But the main thing is that you still need admin for creating a admin account.

“First, let me make it clear that this post is only meant to be informative. Please do not misuse it. On the other hand, if you are an administrator, then this post could be useful to you in being wary of how your system could be compromised with a very simple trick.”

Well a usual guest can either use it in two ways.either he shows this trick to others for showing his technical skills or he can misuse it.I do not think any usefull use of this trick rather than misusing it for guest only.

and for admin this can be a alarm.

overall nice post.

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Doug Shaffer June 10, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Almost, but the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder security should never be opened to Guest. Unless FAT or the permissions have been modified, the default NTFS security denies wrie acces to the folder. Power Users is another story, however, since those users have write access.

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Ravi June 13, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Good tip ! I like this post.
Thanks.

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roda monroe October 19, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Roda thanks you! I’d somehow lost all administrator rights and this is the only way to get it back. I tried everything else. Thank you so much for posting this …

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Kelly November 6, 2008 at 10:58 pm

Due to a System32 error, I was essentially stuck with only a working guest account, and this helped a lot. The only problem was that it created a limited access account, and I cannot change this because I can’t access user accounts in admin. Cool trick, though.

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Mandinga March 5, 2009 at 9:58 pm

When i gonna copy the file ADMIN.BAT says CAN’T COPY HERE, NO PRIVILEGIES

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arjun June 28, 2009 at 10:17 pm

bull shit this is not working in guest account. guest have no priviliges to copy the batch file into startup folders this not a nice trick

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ben July 20, 2009 at 3:25 am

this is not usefull to the guest because he cant access the startup folder. how the hell does the guest copy the file to the designate folder.

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bombermanneo October 8, 2009 at 2:48 am

Err…Just use some tools like “Windows Password Recovery Tool”

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Anthony October 12, 2009 at 8:05 am

If you have another computer on the network with an admin account then it’s easy enough, you just hack the C$ share

net use \\hacked\C$\docume~1\alluse~1\startme~1\progra~1\startup
start \\hacked\C$\docume~1\alluse~1\startme~1\progra~1\startup
Wollah!!

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RAB October 28, 2009 at 8:44 am

I ONLY HAVE 1 ACCOUNT LEFT AND IT IS NOT AN ADMIN ACCT. THERE IS NO GUEST ACCT. THE ONLY CHOICES IN USERS IS ADD PASSWORD AND CHG PICTURE. I AM SCREWED!

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cameron k November 14, 2009 at 2:23 pm

it comes up system error 5 has occured

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Michel December 8, 2009 at 3:38 pm

How do you diable this when i delete the account it keeps coming back

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Davi December 14, 2009 at 2:57 am

If you don’t want to reformat your system, I think you have to make a rest disk or use some tool to do all the job for you. Such as Windows Password Recovery Tool 3.0. Burn a boot CD with the program, and insert it into the problem computer and your password will be reset to “Blank”.

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HOW December 16, 2009 at 8:07 am

zzz..
I cannot copy it to start up
It say..Denied Access help me!!

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DEEPESH January 6, 2010 at 12:35 pm

Hiii
nice trick but,
i cannot copy that file to startup
it shows access denied message

plz tel me a way to copy tht file

plz tel me tht farst plzzzzz

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