To troubleshoot a problem I used msconfig to set that windows 10 should boot without loading most of the services (safe boot). I rebooted the PC and then noticed that I could not login with the PIN in safe mode. Its my father's laptop and he doesn't remember the original password of his account.
Because I can not login I can not tell windows to start booting in normal mode again. Is there any way to let windows boot in normal mode without requiring me to login?
What I did so far:
- Created a windows 10 installation usb drive
- Booted from the usb drive and followed a trick I found online to rename c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe to c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe (after backing up utilman.exe). This allows me to access a command prompt when logging in from the harddisk again by clicking the accessiblity icon on the login screen.
- I then created a new administrator account using:
net user myusername /add
and
net localgroup administrators myusername /add
I then rebooted and tried to login using that user, but I get an error when logging in saying: "The service User Profile Service prevents logging in. User profile cannot be loaded" (I translated that from dutch).
Does anyone have a solution? Maybe a file I can edit from the command prompt to tell windows to boot normally again?
