I admit it. I hate Windows 10. Probably 11 too. Maintaining four machines, two of which family related, I'm not able to say how much of a hassle it is to just keep them running, unsupervised and supervised. We are not talking rocket science here: mail and web browsing, some light gaming here and there. No malware, no miners, just plain and simple machines. After 6-12 months, they are not usable anymore.<p>Final straw for my private machine: I was not allowed to save in my own working folder. This was on a fresh out of the box install. I'm still angry. I switched to Linux full time after this.<p>I can not image how it must feel like when you are not having admin privileges. Given it is not a work machine, I would just refuse to go near it. No meditation would be enough to help me stay calm. My heart goes out to everyone who has to deal with this crap, I hope you get good money for it.
I am unable to copy the SAM file out of that shadow copy path without becoming local admin. My regular user account cannot do it. So this might be overblown unless my environment is not standard somehow.