Hi.

Some background info. A friend of a friend recently died rather unexpectedly, at a fairly young age. His wife needs to get access to his paypal and ebay accounts for the business he ran. Unfortunately he doesn't seem to have left the details for them anywhere easily accessable.There is a decent chance that his accounts are logged in on his windows box, or the passwords are stored there, but of course, THAT also has a password on it that she doesn't know...

Now, presuming he didn't use disk encryption, the obvious solution is to plug the drive from the computer into another system, or in fact boot it from a USB stick into linux. Either approach should allow access to the filesystem. But if things are not quite that easy, is there any viable method to bypass the password on a modern windows system?

I'm not certain which flavor of windows it is running, but knowing the man it would almost certainly be either windows 7 or windows 10. Nothing earlier, certainly, and he didn't like Win 8

Any suggestions?

pca