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I have a loaner Microsoft Surface RT to evaluate. When I turn it on and it boots to the login screen there is the previous user's name and prompt for their password. I don't seem to be able to do anything to switch users. I can only sleep, shut down or restart. How can I change users without the previous user loging in? What would be done in the case of the previous user no longer being available to login? It seems the device would no longer be usable. I am sure I am missing something.
How would a user be created if you can't exit from the login screen? Is there a way to get to the preconfigured administrator account? – DaveB – 2013-03-25T16:24:12.393
You would need to be able to login (and typically the admin account isn't enabled by default when the main user is an admin), so again - you'd need to talk with the owner of the tablet. It would probably be frowned upon for me to tell you how or link to guides to tell you how to hack into Windows. – nerdwaller – 2013-03-25T16:46:25.407
I asked because there is a possibility that the person with the login could not longer be available and I wondered if the device would then be rendered unusable. – DaveB – 2013-03-25T18:01:11.530
1If that's the case you could find guides online to reset the password (though you'd need to make adjustments for ARM hardware), otherwise a recovery image is available locally (if the owner didn't remove it yet). I think to access that you would hold Vol+ during power on (at least on my pro). If they removed it, then there should be a way to obtain the image from Microsoft or possibly floating around online. – nerdwaller – 2013-03-25T18:24:42.620