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I normally use it as its integrated in the Ultimate boot CD (UBCD, just google it) since this has many more useful utilities such as this, including diagnostic tools, HDD password unlocker and so much more. Of course this is just in case you ever find yourself with physical access and don't know the root or local Administrator password. You will need physical access to the machine, since you boot from usb or dvd. I believe theres also a mac and a linux version, someone correct me if Im wrong. You can find either the free version or the paid verion on the internet, of course the paid has more features.
In this way you could easilly log on as Local Admin. Kon boot is a small utility that modifies the kernel while booting, and allows you to bypass the Windows Logon screen by entering any password or leaving it blank. I just decided to throw this out here for anyone who might not be familiar with the utility or would like to do some reading on it. Now boot into kon-boot and you can logging in windows without entering any password. Keep in mind that the device you want to boot from is the USB.ħ.
Now you're done to test it restart your computer and enter your BIOS or Bootload selecter (on my Dell desktop I just simply hit F12 as soon as my PC turns on and I can select which device I want to boot from). It will be installed automatically on you thumb drive.Ħ. A command prompt will be prompted and ask you to enter your USB drive latter in my case it is H: enter you USB drive later and press enter. Now double click on "KonBootInstall.exe".ĥ.
Open the download RAR file and extract it and go to the folder named "KonBoot V1.1 32 & 64 bit".Ĥ. Plug-In you USB into your computer and format it to FAT32.ģ. Great thing about Kon-Boot is it leaves no traces and doesn't edit or remove the password on the computer you can reboot the computer after you have logged into it and the owner of the computer will have no ideal anyone was on it.Ģ. If your using it off a CD put the CD into the computer with the password protected Windows Login make sure the computer is set to boot from CD in the BIOS a screen like the picture above will display and then get to the Windows login screen simply press 'ENTER' and bypass the Windows login screen and go straight to the desktop. Kon boot can either be burned on a CD or put on a USB stick or put on a Floppy disk Kon-Boot is less then 100kb in file size so don't panic about the size. So far following systems were tested to work correctly with Kon-Boot: This tool changes the contents of Windows kernel while booting, everything is done virtually – without any interferences with physical system changes. Kon-Boot for Windows enables logging in to any password protected machine profile without without any knowledge of the password.