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Bereavement access to PC

Q

Is there a way to access a PC for a widow locked out either by a local or Microsoft account from her late husband other than pulling the hard drive?

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A

If you're looking to gain access to the information stored online in the Microsoft account, read here about next of kin access.
If you're looking simply to gain access to the files on the user account, have another administrator account on the PC take ownership of the deceased's user folder, change the permissions so that admin has access, and get into the files that way.

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