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Question

Unable to use CMD

Jul 15, 2017 9:15AM PDT

So recently i forgot my password to the computer. So I installed Ubuntu and renamed CMD and Onscreen keyboard as each others. I went to the login screen, opened Onscreen keyboard and typed commands to unlock the computer. Now there's a problem. I can't rename CMD again because of trusted installer. And Ubuntu won't let me rename CMD. I can't use CMD properly. What do I do?
Please help

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That's not the method I read about.
Jul 15, 2017 9:27AM PDT

The rename is the onscreen keyboard and copying the cmd exe. If you renamed cmd.exe you either found bad instructions or blew up your installed OS by not following the instructions.

-> YOU WROTE TWICE ABOUT RENAMING CMD. That's not what the articles I read advised.

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Here
Jul 15, 2017 10:46AM PDT

I renamed cmd.exe to osk.rxe and vice versa.
Now I can't revert it back in Ubuntu for some reason

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Sadly this is a bad thing thing to do.
Jul 15, 2017 11:02AM PDT

I guess I was unclear here. Not one of the articles about this say to rename the cmd.exe.

They write to rename osk and then COPY cmd.exe to the osk file. Also Linux was not used in most articles.

I fear you didn't follow directions or found bad directions and hope you can avoid a wipe out now.

Post was last edited on July 15, 2017 11:03 AM PDT

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I understand now
Jul 16, 2017 2:32AM PDT

I understood what you are trying to say. I'll try to see if I can do something. Thank you