Factory Reset Windows 10 without user intervention

Hi.

You are trying to run the script with not enough privileges. The needed WMI methods can only be invoked with SYSTEM privileges. Membership in "Administrators" is not enough.

To execute a PowerShell script manually with SYSTEM privileges, you can, for example, use psexec.exe from Microsoft Sysinternals:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec

Place the .exe file and the .ps1 file in the same directory and execute psexec.exe with administrative privileges the following way (replace the paths as necessary):

C:\Scripts\psexec.exe -accepteula -S powershell.exe -command C:\Scripts\wipe.ps1

Another way, which you can do remotely and without psexec (group policy for example), would be to create a scheduled task running as SYSTEM and executing the script. You can then execute the task on demand or with a time/date schedule.

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