Autoadminlogon !link! -

His computer booted. The BIOS POSTed. The Windows boot loader spun. And then, the local winlogon.exe process read the registry.

A local shadow account. One with no password. One with no MFA. One that, three years ago, when he first set AutoAdminLogon , he had accidentally created and then forgotten. autoadminlogon

It was .\DefaultAccount0 .

He called the Helix help desk. "My workstation is rejecting my credentials," he said, keeping his voice calm. "I need the local admin override." His computer booted