You guys are missing the true point of sticky keys:
Admin console without admin password.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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care to explain a bit more?
It's a well known exploit on Windows:
- delete sethc.exe (sticky keys executable) from the system32 directory.
- replace it with a copy of cmd.exe (name it sethc.exe)
- reboot to login screen.
- shift 5 times, and you get a command prompt with administrator privileges
Now, you can change all the passwords on the system from the login screen.
Last I checked, it still works, and it's been around since xp days.
Don't you need to be admin to muck with system32?
Just access to the hard drive. A bootable Linux USB could do that. I think you can get there through some obscure way with windows installation media as well.
The game is nazi zombies and you are on round 9267
It always annoyed me because every month or so, after getting the pop up and disabling it, it would just show up again
Then you didn't disable it
yup, all of my windows systems have the settings stayed off over the course of their entire lifetime. People are likely to just be turning off the sticky keys but not the shortcut to toggle it.
I disabled Caps Lock. Some games map stuff to it, or I'd hit it instead of Shift and then when I need to type I'm the shouting moron.
Disabled the fuck out of Caps Lock. Not that hard (for me) to just hold shift if I needed that many caps.
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