Windows utilities that can be used to bypass restrictions

Credit: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/breaking-out-of-citrix-and-other-restricted-desktop-environments/

Notepad

We can try and create a file a new text file and save at as file.bat with the content of cmd.exe , double click on the file and a cmd will open.

Cortana

McAfee uncovered and documented the security flaws in a lengthy blog post, with one simple issue being the fact that you could trigger the voice assistant from the lock screen (assuming Cortana is enabled in this respect, on default settings), and bring up a contextual Windows 10 menu simply by typing while Cortana is listening to a query.

simply typing while Cortana starts to listen to a query on a locked device will bring up a Windows contextual menu, as shown below