Windows 10 (and prior) bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon (Zero-day, not fixed)

Bleeping Computer ^ | Jan 14, 2021 | Ax Sharma

[deoetdoctrinae]

Actually, we are two of the remaining seventeen people in the world running Windows 8.1, lol.

Does that present any other alternatives for gaining admin privileges?

[dayglored]

> Actually, we are two of the remaining seventeen people in the world running Windows 8.1, lol.

Oh right, sorry, you said that above. Brain fart on my part.

> Does that present any other alternatives for gaining admin privileges? Well, I'm fairly certain that 8.1 had the Owner (for Home) and Administrator (for Pro) as the defaults. See if you can find evidence for which one is on the laptop. Hopefully you have the passwords for them somewhere.... :-/

[deoetdoctrinae]

Woo Hoo! Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn. I clicked on "file folder" toward the left on the task bar. When it opened, I clicked on the desktop folder. Then clicked on "file" in the upper left hand corner.

Among other things, that brought up "open command prompt". When I hovered the cursor over that, it brought up two choices. "Open command prompt", and "open command prompt as administrator". Clicked on the administrator choice and I was off to the races!

The chkdsk took about an hour and a half. It seemed to be stuck on 10 percent forever, but when I took a two minute break for a glass of water, it was finished when I got back. Wife says so far, so good. Thanks for all your help.

[dayglored]

Hot diggety! That's wonderful news, thanks for letting me know. You've made my day. :-)

God Bless, and have a great rest of the weekend.