• Tutorial on how to get admin on a school windows computer

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What you need:

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  12. Home wifi (unblocked)

      • a windows computer

        • a blank 4GB (at least) USB

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• AT HOME

  12. Download a few things :

      • Rufus portable

      • Linux Mint Live Image

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  14. Open Rufus portable

  15. Set these options:

      • Device: {your usb drive}

      • Boot selection: {the linux mint image you downloaded}

      • Target system: BIOS or UEFI

  16. For all the other settings, rufus should automatically detect the appropriate settings

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  12. Click start. Linux should start flashing to the USB drive

  13. When finished, open the file explorer, and check that all the files and directories have been copied (e.g. vmlinuz, boot/). Eject the USB drive.

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• ON THE SCHOOL COMPUTER
  Get access to an admin terminal at login

  12. Turn off the computer.

  13. Press the power button, and spam the ESC key until a BIOS screen shows. If a password is asked, press ESC until it goes away, and a menu shows.

NOTE: For different brands/models of computers, the steps to access the boot menu may be different. Make sure to google how to access the boot menu on the computer's brand

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  12. Select Boot Menu or similar. The option may read different for different brands.

  13. Select your USB drive. After a couple of seconds, some info should scroll down the screen, to be replaced by the Linux Mint logo.

  14. When Linux is loaded, click the file manager icon in the shelf/taskbar

  15. Mount the windows disk by clicking Local Disk or OS (C:)

  16. Open the system directory (C:/Windows/System32/)

  17. Copy and paste cmd.exe. A copy should be made.

  18. Delete either sethc.exe or osk.exe

  19. Rename the copy of cmd.exe to the file you deleted

  20. Restart the computer. Its done pretty much the same way as windows. Remove the USB when asked

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• Gaining Admin rights

When Windows starts up and the login screen shows, depending on the file you replaced:

For sethc.exe: Press shift 5 times

• 12. For osk.exe: Go to the signin screen by pressing CTRL+ALT+Delete or whatever, click the Ease of Access options (a 3/4 circle thing) next to the power options button, and click On-Screen Keyboard

  13. Type this command: net localgroup Administrators <your username> /add. It should print The command completed successfully. If it doesnt, l bozo

  14. Close cmd, and sign in as usual. You're now an admin.

NOTE: You need to repeat from step 12 every time the computer restarts (refreshes active directory user policies)

• NOTE: If you use a different computer, you have to boot linux and replace the file again