It is possible to reset user passwords in Windows using both official methods and unofficial hackish methods. Needless to say, the official methods work only if you have taken some precautions in advance, or if you can prove some way or other that you are authorized to use the account in question. Obviously, Microsoft will not provide an official tool which allows absolutely anyone to bypass Windows user account protection.

Windows allows you to create a password reset disk, in case you forget your password later. Using this disk you can easily reset your password. Limitations Password reset disks can be created only for local accounts and not for Microsoft accounts. A password reset disk can be used to reset the password of only the account which was used to create the disk. Creating a password reset disk is a precautionary measure; it cannot be done after you have forgotten your password.

Newer versions of Windows Defender moves files it considers suspicious to the quarantine without user confirmation. That is currently the default behavior. At first, I thought of this only as a minor inconvenience. But the feedback I received from many users is that once a file is quarantined there is no guarantee of getting it back. The user interface of Windows Defender is a little unreliable; it sometimes fails to show the recovery options for quarantined files.

Have Windows Defender moved your safe, trusted files to the quarantine thinking that it is a virus? Here is how to get them back. Newer versions of Windows Defender moves files it considers suspicious to the quarantine without user confirmation. In my case, it sent some macro files which I wrote many years ago to the quarantine. If you are convinced that the files in question are safe, you can restore them from the quarantine.

If you are facing false positive issues in Windows Defender, you can add the file or folder in question to Windows Defender’s exclusion list. Windows Defender exclusions can also be useful in fixing some performance issues. Windows Defender does not play nicely with certain processes and slows them down significantly, process exclusions can help in unshackling these processes. Ensure that the files are safe Before adding a file to the exclusion list, you need to make sure that it is safe.

The default priority of processes run using Task Scheduler in Windows is below-normal. To be more precise, the default task-priority is 7 which comes under the below-normal process-priority category. Task Priority Priority Category 0 Real-time 1 High 2-3 Above Normal 4-6 Normal 7-8 Below Normal 9-10 Idle Priority categories in Windows Below-normal priority works fine in most cases since Task Scheduler is primarily meant for running background tasks. But there may be cases where you want to run a normal task or even a task that you want to finish as soon as possible.

In the newer version of Windows 10, the open in cmd option has been removed from Windows Explorer. Here is a quick way to get at least part of that functionality back. Press ALT+D to select the address bar of the explorer window Type cmd Press ENTER This method should work with console-alternatives like Conemu or ConsoleZ as well. It is a general technique which can be used to launch any executable.