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An acquaintance of mine just bought a new laptop today. On Windows 7, he has been used to using the character generated by Ctrl-Backspace(ASCII 127) in his password. In fact, his password was simply 3 times this character, because he figured it would be hard to guess.
So he boots up his new laptop that has Windows 8 on it, and uses the same password when creating a user account. This works fine here. However, when he tries to log on, the Ctrl-Backspace combination does not work. Neither does using alt+numpad to enter the keycode. So now he is simply unable to log on to his brand new computer, and there was no windows 8 disk accompanying it so he would be able to reset/reinstall.
Is there anything he can do? Or does he have to take it back to the retailer?
Thanks in advance.
PS: This is obviously a bug -- where does one file bugs for Windows 8?
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Posted 2013-09-18T17:20:58.363
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6Its tough not to chuckle, :) .No its definitely not a bug, you friend needs to do a password recovery. There are several ways to do it, infact you might find it here on SU. – Shekhar – 2013-09-18T17:27:35.753
Using a boot disk of TRK should provide an account unlocker.
– iamwpj – 2013-09-18T17:30:50.6401Also, in all honesty that's a horrible password, DELDELDEL? or ⌂⌂⌂ is only slightly less guessable then aaa, bbb etc... – Austin T French – 2013-09-18T17:47:08.707
There aren't many computers anymore that even come with the recovery disk; however, the majority have a recovery partition. You may need to google the key combo to enter it, but usually on boot it is one of the
F-keys. – nerdwaller – 2013-09-18T21:38:42.920