Full Screen Escape

Sometimes you are stuck inside a full screen interface/GUI and you can tell you're just a few clicks away from a shell.

Try to get access to any Explorer functionalities like "Open,Save,Save as,etc"

Bypassing path restrictions

You can access most paths via Explorer and web browser.

• Environment variables: There are a lot of environment variables that are pointing to some path

• Other protocols: about:, data:, ftp:, file:, mailto:, news:, res:, telnet:, view-source:

• Symbolic links

• Shortcuts: CTRL+N (open new session), CTRL+R (Execute Commands), CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (Task Manager), Windows+E (open explorer), CTRL-B, CTRL-I (Favourites), CTRL-H (History), CTRL-L, CTRL-O (File/Open Dialog), CTRL-P (Print Dialog), CTRL-S (Save As)

  • Hidden Administrative menu: CTRL-ALT-F8, CTRL-ESC-F9

• Shell URIs, these do not work in browser:

  • shell:Administrative Tools

  • shell:DocumentsLibrary

  • shell:Libraries

  • shell:UserProfiles

  • shell:Personal

  • shell:SearchHomeFolder

  • shell:NetworkPlacesFolder

  • shell:SendTo

  • shell:UserProfiles

  • shell:Common Administrative Tools

  • shell:MyComputerFolder

  • shell:InternetFolder

  • Shell:Profile

  • Shell:ProgramFiles

  • Shell:System

  • Shell:ControlPanelFolder

  • Shell:Windows

  • shell:::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} --> Control Panel

  • shell:::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} --> My Computer

  • shell:::{{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}} --> My Network Places

  • shell:::{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}->internet explorer

  • https://pastebin.com/raw/DLTeW0HU

• UNC paths: Network paths, you should try to connect to the C$ of the local machine ("\\127.0.0.1\c$\Windows\System32")

UNC	UNC	UNC
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%	%APPDATA%	%CommonProgramFiles%
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)%	%COMPUTERNAME%	%COMSPEC%
%HOMEDRIVE%	%HOMEPATH%	%LOCALAPPDATA%
%LOGONSERVER%	%PATH%	%PATHEXT%
%ProgramData%	%ProgramFiles%	%ProgramFiles(x86)%
%PROMPT%	%PSModulePath%	%Public%
%SYSTEMDRIVE%	%SYSTEMROOT%	%TEMP%
%TMP%	%USERDOMAIN%	%USERNAME%
%USERPROFILE%	%WINDIR%

Shortcut to escape

If it's a touch screen just try all the gestures tbh, swipe up up down down left right left right B A Start Click on all the corners, an infinite number of times or stuff like 2 click top-left, 1 click bottom right, 360 no scope. You get the idea.

• Sticky Keys – Press SHIFT 5 times

• Mouse Keys – SHIFT+ALT+NUMLOCK

• High Contrast – SHIFT+ALT+PRINTSCN

• Toggle Keys – Hold NUMLOCK for 5 seconds

• Filter Keys – Hold right SHIFT for 12 seconds

• WINDOWS+F1 – Windows Search

• WINDOWS+D – Show Desktop

• WINDOWS+E – Launch Windows Explorer

• WINDOWS+R – Run

• WINDOWS+U – Ease of Access Centre

• WINDOWS+F – Search

• SHIFT+F10 – Context Menu

• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC – Task Manager

• CTRL+ALT+DEL – Splash screen on newer Windows versions

• F1 – Help F3 – Search

• F6 – Address Bar

• F11 – Toggle full screen within Internet Explorer

• CTRL+H – Internet Explorer History

• CTRL+T – Internet Explorer – New Tab

• CTRL+N – Internet Explorer – New Page

• CTRL+O – Open File

• CTRL+S – Save CTRL+N – New RDP / Citrix