# How To Sign Into Any Windows Machine When You Have Physical Access

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/how-to-sign-into-any-windows-machine-when-you-have-physical-access/82328>\
**Category:** Tutorials & Methods\
**Tags:** hacking, windows\
**Created:** [April 26, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-sign-into-any-windows-machine-when-you-have-physical-access/82328 "2020-04-26T06:05:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ze380y](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/ze380y/32/48760_2.png) [@Ze380y](https://onehack.st/u/Ze380y)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-sign-into-any-windows-machine-when-you-have-physical-access/82328/1 "2020-04-26T06:05:23Z")

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In this guide, I will demonstrate how easy it is to break into a Windows machine when you have physical access, even if you have a strong password securing the account. We will go from being completely locked out, to having full Administrator access in less than 5 minutes.

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This is a **Beginner** level attack that anybody can do. Let’s dive in!

**Table of Contents**  
– Explaining the Attack  
– What You Will Need  
– Performing the Attack  
– Post Exploitation  
– Mitigation

Full tutorial link

> **[Gaining Admin Access to Windows via UtilMan.exe](https://infinitelogins.com/2020/01/13/how-to-sign-into-any-windows-machine-when-you-have-physical-access/)**
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> In this guide, I will demonstrate how easy it is to break into a Windows machine when you have physical access, even if you have a strong password securing the account. We will go from being comple…