Kon Boot 1.1
We reviewed Kon Boot 1.0 last year HERE which was a great breakthrough program that allowed you to boot into a Windows machine and bypass the logon screen without entering a password. To accomplish this, Kon Boot hooks the bios on the fly subverting the Windows kernel authentication temporarily and allowing you access. Since this is a temporary process the computer is back to normal when you reboot. This allowed you to access the computer without having to take the time to reset the password or crack it, and it left the computer untouched. Now, a year later, Kon Boot v1.1 has been released with new features, such as booting from floppy,CD, or usb, privilege escalation support which allows you to gain SYSTEM privileges from ANY account on the system. For example, you can boot from Kon Boot and log in as Guest and run ‘Net User’ command to add a new user,reset admin passwords etc as SYSTEM
It also has a bunch of new bug fixes/updates.
- – Added 64-bit environment support
- – Added USB support tools (grldr, klmemusb)
- – Added debugging code to make it easier to track down various compatibility problems
- – Fixed bug in Windows 7 support failures
- – Removed Linux support
- – Many performance improvements to source code
- – Improved BIOS support by reducing code size significantly
Unfortunately it is no longer free. But for a meager price of $15.99 for a personal license, it gives you free updates and support for a period of 6 months. You can still use it without restrictions after that period.
They also offer a commercial license, for $75.99 with 1 year of support and updates, allowing you to use on business environment.
To purchase Kon Boot v1. 1,visit their website http://www.kryptoslogic.com
We are also giving away 10 personal licenses this week to some lucky readers!!! More details to come!!!
on May 15th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Can i have a personal account????
for free, PLS….
on May 18th, 2010 at 9:15 am
How can I get a personal license? The week is over and still no information about it.
on May 18th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Could you please provide me with one license. I’ll be so grateful.
on May 20th, 2010 at 8:34 am
May I have a free license? That would be great.
on May 25th, 2010 at 8:49 am
I backtracked to here from Ketarin
Thanks a lot for your work with the TechTools, the autoupdate is a great time saver!
I also would be interested in a license, hope i didn’t miss the bus?
on May 31st, 2010 at 5:46 am
Hope I’m not too late for the license. May I have one, please?
on May 31st, 2010 at 3:23 pm
you can try to win the contest this week Rafal.
on June 6th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Hope I’m not too late for the license. May I have one, please?
on June 12th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
submit an article to win contest
on June 23rd, 2010 at 6:20 pm
When I me in BIOS that that was started by the first a disk and I include the computer it the black screen will simply blink also anything and kon is not started what to do?
on July 15th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Could you please provide me with one license. I’ll be so grateful
on September 27th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
I misplaced my admin password, can this program help me? I am running Windows 7.
on September 28th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
anyone have the 1.1 version everything i get says 1.1 but is 1.0 need it kinda fast please.
on October 22nd, 2010 at 10:53 am
I really hope my sister won’t lay her hands on one of those…
on January 5th, 2011 at 12:43 am
Konboot v1.1 32/64 bit support 2010 updates..
Version 1.1
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– Added 64-bit environment support
– Added USB support tools (grldr, klmemusb)
– Added debugging code to make it easier to track down various compatibility problems
– Added help file
– Fixed bug in Windows 7 support failures
– Removed Linux support
– Many performance improvements to source code
– Improved BIOS support by reducing code size significantly
http://www.mediafire.com/?l9klacnfwlav6gb
on April 6th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Hope I’m not too late for a free license. My computer is all fudged up and none of my three accounts will work. Tried Acer support for a recovery disk but after 4 weeks no response.
on September 6th, 2011 at 7:12 am
srsly, paying for something which u use only once..
on September 20th, 2011 at 7:02 am
I’ve used it over 100 times for work
on January 7th, 2012 at 10:40 am
Sorry,when i run kon-boot on my windows 7 familial edition it shows the kon boot logo then after it shows a black screen with a blinking empty bar and remains like that.Can some help me please?
on January 9th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
what brand computer is it
on February 1st, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Okay so im slightly desperate here, my work has made us a guest on our computers with no admin rights, and i cant for the life of me guess the user password that has all the admin rights, even went as far as standing behind them and recording themn put it in. I tried opcrack but it spat out No partition containing hashes found. I dont want to change the current password, only go into it and give a programme of mine admin rights so i can use it. Im going to try kon-boot next, im on windows 7 and a 32 bit operating system, i dont have kon .1.1 so just going with what i could download. Lets hope this works 🙂
on February 6th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
herm i also get a black screen on windows 7?
on February 13th, 2012 at 4:41 am
bah tried 1.1 download maybe it was broken but all i get is a black screen saying H: ?
Does anyone know how to get past an admin password without breaking it? On windows 7
on March 25th, 2012 at 8:48 am
Konboot 2.0 is out , can we get a link to it plz?
on August 22nd, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Thanks for an interesting post. I’ve been looking around for this type of info for a while now.