SYSTEM user with Vista
Do you have physical access to a Vista box and need to become SYSTEM user? Try this one:
- boot the Vista box with BackTrack or some other Live CD
- mount the NTFS partition
- rename c:\Windows\System32\Utilman.exe
- copy c:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe to c:\Windows\System32\Utilman.exe
- reboot
- at the login screen: start Utilman with “Windows key + U”
- start CMD.EXe
- start EXPLORER.EXE
- done!
There is a nice screen cam video of this available.
May 28th, 2008 at 19:44
[...] Original post by Alexander Geschonneck [...]