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Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95


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It was a hack of an unspecified version of Windows 95, which showed how to bypass the login screen with the help of the menu and printing dialog. To crack the setup of Windows NT 5.31 Domain Controller is beyond scope of this OS hack, but a user who has accessed the machine might just have enough tools to get in the network as well. We don't actually need to create new a Windows NT 3.51 server VM, because we can simulate its presence by registry edit.

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