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Why does the Utilman.exe trick to break into windows not fixed? Why does the Utilman.exe trick to break into windows not fixed?
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I just discovered and sucessfully used the trick where one can rename Utilman exe to something else and cmd.exe to utilman.exe and use this to bypass the windows password. Which means I can break into anybody's windows system without knowing their password, and steal their data. This is a very well known work around to bypass windows password, So my question is WHY doesn't windows simply fix this if its so vulnerable and well known?

Also for my curious mind, Could someone ELI 5 how this trick works and what's actually being done here ?


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