Right, So I actually did something similar. On some version of windows I noticed that ctrl-backspace was adding another character to the password, instead of deleting it. So I included it in my password. Then I updated to a new version of windows and got locked out since they updated the password backend to where it would actually delete the password instead of a adding the character, so I had no way of typing out my password. Ended up just nuking the computer.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Could have just researched what character was being inserted by the ctrl backspace and then used the keyboard to insert the character from its ascii or unicode code to login and then changed your password before nuking your computer

[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like it was the ASCII char 127 (delete char). https://superuser.com/questions/33142/ctrlbackspace-inserts-a-small-box-instead-of-erasing

[–] behindthesailboats@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, I tried doing the keystrokes I found online that promised to put the ASCII character in, but it wasn't working for me and gave up eventually.

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