Ask HN: How can I crack Windows login screen which bans my password?

I've bought a new Thinkpad with Windows 10 pre-installed. I used Windows for a short time, with no connection to the Internet and set up my Windows login password. This Windows may have had a manufacturer's license, but as I didn't connect it to the Internet, I may have never activated the license. I reformatted the hard disk to install Ubuntu in dual boot, and then used Ubuntu for a prolonged period of time (months) without logging into Windows.

Then there was an occasion when I needed to use Windows, and upon dual booting into Windows on this laptop and entering my password, Windows doesn't let me in i.e. I can't get further than the login screen on the damn Windows. It refuses to accept the password which I used previously for a couple of weeks.

On the Internet there are recommendations to create and use Windows password reset usb stick. But for creating it you must be logged in, as you need to access the Windows Settings. I created the usb stick on a different PC with Windows, but it turned out that this usb stick with the pass reset was associated with that Windows PC user only and didn't work on my laptop (as the usernames are different).

In the 90's I remember using some Windows repair software from torrents on a CD, where you do not need to boot up into Windows, and instead you're booting up from the CD and it enters some virtual Windows OS with various repair software pre-installed and you also can access your Windows files from there.

Is there a way, similar to using such a CD or another one, to bypass the Windows login screen, which doesn't accept the password?