Is there a way to add a new windows user from a linux live usb?
Specifically how would one create a new windows user inside a linux environment with the windows partition mounted from linux, and not swapping cmd.exe for sethc.exe to add a user with the sticky keys method on booting windows?
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Creating a new Windows user is much more complicated than modifying an existing account.
The new user account needs many new registry entries and folders, and they all must be created with the right permissions. In addition, while not all of them are known or documented, they also change with every major new release of Windows.
The complexities are simply too much for Linux people to bother. You need a Windows utility to be launched via boot.
One such utility isHiren’s BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment). You will find more details in the articleUsing Hiren's Boot CD to Create Admin User Accounts.
I think the inescapable conclusion is that there is nothing one can do to protect a computer against an intruder with physical access to it.
