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If you like trying out new stuff, please check out an early beta version of UBCD Live and give us your feedback. This is a Live Rescue CD based on Debian, which we hope will eventually be good enough to replace Parted Magic.

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

  • Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.
  • Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.
  • Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn't you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!
  • Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices. You can access the same tools as you would from the CD version.

New features in UBCD V5.x include:

  • New! The Linux-based distro Parted Magic is now included with UBCD V5.0. This should be the method of choice when you need to resize/rescue partitions, access NTFS filesystems or work with USB storage devices.
  • New! UBCD V5.x now supports both syslinux/isolinux and grub4dos. This helps improve the chances that UBCD will boot on any particular machine.

When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.

Tools currently included with the Ultimate Boot CD are:

Name of ToolVersionLicenseNotes
/BIOS
!BIOS3.20Freeware
BIOS1.35.0Freeware Website says V1.35.1, but program displays V1.35.0.
CMOSPWD5.0GPL
KEYDiskn/aFreeware
PC CMOS Cleaner2.0Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic.
Q&D Vital Data Manager1.4hFreeware
WipeCMOS1.2Freeware
/CPU
CPUstress2.5.4Freeware
CPUburn1.4aGPL Included in CPUstress.
CPU Burn-in1.00Freeware Included in CPUstress. The Linux version which is included in UBCD is at V1.00. V1.01 applies to Windows only.
CPUinfon/aGPL Included in CPUstress.
CPUID2.19GPL
Intel Optimized LINPACK Benchmark11.2.0Freeware Included in CPUstress.
Intel Processor Frequency ID (P3 and below)7.2Freeware
Intel Processor Identification Utility (P4 and above)5.30Freeware
Mersenne Prime Test23.9.2Free software Included in CPUstress.
Mersenne Prime Test28.5Free software Included in CPUstress.
Stress1.04GPL Included in CPUstress.
StressCPU (requires CPU with SSE)2.0GPL Included in CPUstress.
System Stability Tester1.5.1GPL Included in CPUstress.
x86test0.10aGPL
/HDD/Boot Management
BOOTMGR05-AUG-2012Freeware
Boot Partition2.60Freeware
EditBINI1.01.1Freeware
GAG (Graphical Boot Manager)4.10GPL
Gujin2.8.7GPL
MBRtool2.3.200Freeware
MBRWork1.08Freeware
PLoP Boot Manager5.0.15Free for personal use
Smart BootManager3.7.1GPL
SPFDISK (Special FDISK)2000-03vFreeware
Super Grub Disk0.9799GPL
Super Grub2 Disk2.00s8GPL
XFDISK (Extended FDISK)0.9.3 betaFreeware
XOSL (Extended Operating System Loader)1.1.5GPL
XOSL-OW (Extended Operating System Loader)1.1.6GPL
/HDD/Data Recovery
Q&D Unit/Track/Head/Sector1.3jFreeware
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor140201 n/a
PCLoginNow2.0Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic.
PCRegEdit1.0Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic.
PhotoRec7.1GPL Included in Parted Magic.
TestDisk7.1GPL Included in Parted Magic.
/HDD/Device Info and Management
AMSET (Maxtor)4.00Freeware
ATAINF1.3Freeware
ATA Password Tool1.1Freeware
Change Definition Utility (for Fujitsu M16xx/M2915 HDDs)n/aFreeware
DiskCheck4.3.0Freeware
DISKINFO1.02Freeware
ESFeat (ExcelStor)2.30Freeware
Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi)2.15Freeware
GSmartControl0.8.6GPL Included in Parted Magic.
SMARTUDM2.00Freeware
UATA100 (Seagate)3.06Freeware
UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPD/MPE/MPF series HDDs)1.13Freeware
UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPG series HDDs)1.17Freeware
Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital)June, 2003Freeware
WDIDLE3 (Western Digital)1.05Freeware
/HDD/Diagnosis
ATA Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu)7.0Freeware
Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital)5.27Freeware
Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital)5.21Freeware Latest V5.22 has the note in version history 'Removed missing test tracks check'. Since we are uncertain of the impact of this change, older version has been included just in case.
Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital)4.15Freeware V5.x has been reported not to work on some older machines, so V4.15 has been included as a backup.
Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi)4.16Freeware
ES-Tool (Samsung)3.01vFreeware
ESTest (ExcelStor)4.50Freeware
GWSCAN (Gateway)3.15Freeware For IDE hard drives 10GB or smaller.
GWSCAN (Gateway)5.12Freeware For IDE hard drives larger than 10GB.
HDAT25.3Freeware Latest stable release, but with device-level testing disabled.
HUTIL (Samsung)1.21Freeware From soeren: 'HUTIL 2.00 lacks the possibility to view the SMART values and it appears to be a lot slower than 1.21. It's only needed for the newest Samsung drives, the 'older' ones still work with 1.21.'
HUTIL (Samsung)2.10Freeware
MHDD324.5Freeware Older version included because it supports ATA/SCSI Terminal for scripting, which was removed in the new version.
MHDD324.6Freeware
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum)4.09Freeware Older version included because this is an uncripppled version that works with non-Maxtor HDDs.
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum)4.23Freeware
SCSIMax (Maxtor/Quantum)1.21Freeware
SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor)2.22Freeware Version included is 2.22 instead of 2.23 at Kaur Kuut's recommendation. Apparently the only feature introduced in V2.23 was 'Long Test time out failure for drives that take too long to complete the Long Test', but that prevents large capacity HDDs from completing the long generic test because all modern HDDs time out by default. Seagate subsequently removed this feature in SeaTools for Windows V1.4.0.2, but never did for SeaTools for DOS V2.23.
SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor)1.12Freeware
SHDIAG (Samsung)1.25Freeware
TAFT (The ATA Forensics Tool)1.2Freeware
ViVARD0.4Freeware The official website is down. Various third party websites claim to have V1.0, but is actually V0.4.
/HDD/Disk Cloning
Clonezillan/aGPL Included in Parted Magic.
CopyWipe1.14Freeware
EaseUs Disk Copy2.3.1Freeware
g4u2.6BSD
HDClone (Free Edition)7.0.2Freeware
partimage0.6.9GPL Included in Parted Magic.
Partition Saving4.30Freeware
PC INSPECTOR clone-maxx1.0Freeware Actual version is 0.95 Build 769, but is referred to as 1.0 on product website.
Q&D Unit Clone1.1rFreeware
/HDD/Disk Editing
Disk Editor3.0Freeware
DISKMAN44.2A3Freeware
DiskSpy Free Edition (Personal use only)2.0Freeware
PTS DiskEditor1.04Freeware Excellent information about this tool <a href='http://thestarman.pcministry.com/tool/de/PTS-DE.htm'>here</a>.
/HDD/Disk Wiping
Active@ KillDisk Free Edition4.1.2393Freeware Free Edition. Supports 'One Pass Zeros' method only. Note that KillDisk V5.x is Windows only.
CopyWipe1.14Freeware
Darik's Boot and Nuke2.3.0GPL
Fujitsu Erase Utility1.00Freeware
HDDErase4.0Freeware
HDDErase3.3Freeware Older version included because latest version is reportedly not compatible with Intel SSDs.
HDShredder (Free Edition)4.0.1Freeware
MAXLLF (Maxtor)1.1Freeware
PC Disk Eraser5.0Freeware Included in Parted Magic.
PC INSPECTOR e-maxx0.95Freeware Actual version is 0.95 Build 775, but is referred to as 1.0 on product website.
SUTIL (Samsung)1.01Freeware
/HDD/Installation
Data Lifeguard Tools (Western Digital)11.2Freeware
DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate)10.45.06Freeware
DiscWizard (Seagate/Maxtor)11.0.8326Freeware MaxBlast V5.0 is essentially the same thing i.e. OEM version of Acronis TrueImage. Startup Recovery Manager not included. Didn't see much use for it on the bootable CD, plus it can be activated in the Win32 program itself if required, or you can copy over the 'Recovery Manager' folder youself.
Disk Manager (IBM)9.61Freeware
Disk Manager (Samsung)10.42Freeware
MaxBlast (Maxtor)4.0Freeware
/HDD/Partition Management
Cute Partition Manager0.9.8Freeware
Dsrfix3.12Freeware
FIPS2.0GPL
Free FDISK1.3.1GPL
GParted0.13.1-gitGPL Included in Parted Magic.
Partinfo1.14Freeware V1.11 and above are Windows only.
Partition Explorer1.01Freeware
Partition Resizer1.3.4Freeware
Partition Saving4.30Freeware
PTDD Super Fdisk1.0Freeware
Ranish Partition Manager2.40Freeware Using stable version because V2.44 is beta and reported to be buggy.
SPFDISK (Special FDISK)2000-03vFreeware
XFDISK (Extended FDISK)0.9.3 betaFreeware
/Memory
AleGr MEMTEST2.00Free for personal use
DIMM_ID3.57UBCD Only This is a special UBCD-only version authorized by the author.
Memtest864.3.7GPL As of UBCD V5.2.8, V5.0.0 Free Edition extracts to V4.3.7.
Memtest86+5.01GPL
TestMemIVn/aFreeware
Windows Memory Diagnostic0.4Freeware
/Others
boot.kernel.org (BKO)n/aFreeware
ClamScan Antivirus0.97.5GPL Included in Parted Magic.
FileLink3.01Freeware This program is part of Caldera OpenDOS V7.03.
F-PROT Antivirus6.2.3Free for personal use Included as module in Parted Magic.
Kon-Boot1.0Free for personal use
netboot.xyzn/aFreeware
Parted Magic2013_08_10_i586GPL Full list of programs can be found here. Parted Magic is now payware and can no longer be updated to the latest version. Last free version (2013_08_10) was obtained from this website
UBCD FreeDOS (Based on NwDsk V3.40)R1.53 n/a Based on NwDsk V3.40.
/Peripherals
ATAPI CDROM Identification2.22Freeware
CHZ Monitor-Test2.0Freeware
Parallel Port Information System1.45Freeware
Video Memory Stress Test1.7GPL
Enhanced Keyboard Checkern/aFreeware
AT-Keyboard Testern/aFreeware
/System
AIDA162.14 n/a Discontinued
ASTRA (Demo version)6.5014-day Demo
Hardware Detection Tool0.5.2GPL pci.ids.gz: 20/02/2013
HWiNFO5.5.5Freeware
NSSI0.60.45Freeware
PC-Config9.33Freeware Discontinued
PCI1.1Freeware pcidevs.txt: Ver 671 (22-01-2008)
PCISniffer3.0.0Freeware
System Speed Test 324.78Freeware

If you have purchased Kon-Boot for Windows or Kon-Boot 2in1 license this is the right place for you.

What's Kon-Boot for Windows?

Kon-Boot (aka kon boot, konboot) is an application which will silently bypass the authentication process of Windows based operating systems. Without overwriting your old password! In other words you can login to your Windows profile without knowing your password. Easy to use and excellent for tech repairs, data recovery and security audits. Fast, tiny and gets your job done!


Kon-Boot in action:

How to purchase?

Kon-Boot is currently the only solution on the market which can securely bypass Microsoft Windows / Appple macOS passwords.

We are doing our best to still improve Kon-Boot and we need your support to keep doing that. If you haven't purchased Kon-Booot already feel free to do so, thanks for your support!

Official purchase site - https://piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot
Official purchase site - https://kon-boot.com


After the purchase download link will be sent to your paypal associated e-mail.

Changelog

DateVersion
01.06.2021 Version 3.9 released:
  • Added option to automatically bypass and disable Windows 10 Core Isolation / Memory Integrity - this feature when enabled was preventing successful Windows boot (UEFI)

30.03.2021 Version 3.8 released:
  • Fixed issues and blue screen errors with newest Windows 10 updates (20H2)

25.01.2021 Version 3.7 released:
  • Loader updates
  • Stability updates for Windows 10

07.10.2020 Version 3.6 released:
  • Installer updates
  • Windows 10 updates

10.06.2020 Version 3.5 released:
  • Secure Boot bypass added (commercial licenses only, PCs (excluding Apple computers))
  • Multiple installer updates and fixes
  • Added support for large USB pendrives (no longer need to meet the 16GB pendrive capacity requirement)
  • Various optimizations

07.04.2020 Version 3.4 released:
  • Updates for newest Windows 10 builds
  • Added detection for BitLocker (disk encryption) (UEFI)

26.11.2019 Version 3.3 released:
  • Updates for Windows 8, Windows 10 (Builds 18362 and newer)
  • Updates for legacy mode

12.10.2019 Version 3.2 released:
  • Stability improvements for Windows 10
  • Updates for Kon-Boot EFI/UEFI loader

17.06.2019 Version 3.1 update released:
  • Supplemental update for version 3.1 (some small fixes, legacy alternative added).

01.06.2019 Version 3.1 released:
  • Updates for Windows 8 / Windows 10 - May updates.

01.04.2019 Version 3.0 released:
  • Online account password bypass for Windows 10 (commercial licenses, UEFI only) is now STABLE (no longer experimental)
  • Improved stability
  • Installer fixes

17.11.2018 Version 2.9 update released:
  • Installer changes & fixes (improved stability and protocol changes - mandatory update)

06.10.2018 Version 2.9 released:
  • Multiple fixes for Windows 10 October update (1809), UEFI.
  • Installer fixes (added monitoring for USB devices map changes).

12.05.2018 Version 2.8 released:
  • SSL support for Kon-Boot installer
  • Added 'new local admin account' feature for Windows 10 S MODE (although we recommend you to avoid such systems)
  • Added experimental Windows 10 (UEFI Systems) ONLINE PASSWORD BYPASS right now for Commercial licenses only.

03.02.2018 Version 2.7 update released:
  • Multiple Kon-Boot installer fixes

01.01.2018 Version 2.7 released (2.6 version was skipped to match the 2in1 version):
  • Additional features for Commercial version (automatically executed powershell scripts!) (UEFI part only for Windows 8/Windows 10 x64)
  • Multiple fixes for kon-boot stability (UEFI part)
  • Multiple installer fixes (USB installer now requires online activation)
  • CD version is deprecated and will no longer be maintained (last version with CD support is 2.5)
  • UEFI support for x86 bit Windows system is deprecated and will no longer be maintained (there are virtually no x86 UEFI systems out there anyway)
  • Entire documentation updated and moved to online form

07.08.2015 Version 2.5 released
  • Support for Windows 10 (local bypass only + ability to create new system account)
18.01.2014 Version 2.4 released
  • Support for Windows 8/8.1 online password bypass
18.01.2014 Version 2.3 released
  • More stable support for Windows 8/8.1 (local mode)
14.04.2013 Version 2.2 released
  • New loader
  • Fixed UEFI bugs on Lenovo systems
  • New installer
27.08.2012 Version 2.1 released
  • Sticky keys feature
  • Initial Windows 8 support

System Requirements

General requirements:
Pentium III compatible processor, 100MB free space on the hard drive. USB flash drive (prefered USB pendrive size is 16GB), keyboard. Compatibile BIOS version. Windows system is required for installer to run. USB flash drive is required for the UEFI version to work. Internet connection is required for the installer to work. Kon-boot can be only installed by using the original installer. One kon-boot license permits the user to install kon-boot on only one USB device (USB pendrive).

Not supported:Disk encryption, secure boot must be disabled., tablets and tablet hybrids, multiple operating systems installed on target computer, 3rd party loaders are supported, kernel debuggers, virtualization software (VMware, QEMU, VirtualBox) is not supported. CD and Floppy versions are deprecated.


Since version 2.7 kon-boot CD version is no longer available. We have left the old .iso images just for compatibility purposes. All versions starting from kon-boot 2.7 can be installed only on USB media.


Supported operating systems:

How does kon boot work
Operating systemSupported?
Microsoft Windows XP (from SP2)Yes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Vista Business 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit/64BitYes (FULL SUPPORT)
Microsoft Windows 8 and 8.1 all versions (32Bit/64Bit)Yes (FULL SUPPORT (normal BIOS + UEFI BIOS)).
Local and online authorization.
Microsoft Windows 10 all versions (32Bit/64Bit)Yes (FULL SUPPORT (normal BIOS + UEFI BIOS)).
Local and online authorization (depending on license). Local administrator account can be added automatically (USB only).
Online authorization bypass for Windows 10 available in commercial licenses (UEFI).


Important:Since kon-boot 2.7 there is a new feature present called automatic powershell script execution. This feature is present only in COMMERCIAL LICENSES (UEFI mode only (Windows 8 x64 / Windows 10 x64)).

Notable differences between personal and commercial version

Personal versionCommercial version
Cannot be used by organizations, business entities and for any type of commercial work. Can be used for commercial purposes.
No Windows 10 online account bypass support.Yes! Windows 10 (UEFI) online account bypass support.
No Secure Boot bypass option.Yes! Secure Boot bypass available (UEFI / PCs (excluding Apple computers).
No extra features.Yes! Extra feature present: automatic powershell script execution

Installation to USB


Since version 2.7 kon-boot can be installed only by using our GUI installer. Internet connecton is required for installer to work. Please note that all other installation options like CD installation are depracated (older kon-boot version is included in the package for compatibility reasons or in case of temporary lack of Internet connection).

We recommend using USB pendrive with less than 16 GB capactity, although it is not necessary (some older BIOSes have problems with kon-boot loading from larger USB pendrives).

Please use USB pendrive manufactured by reputable company like KINGSTON, SANDISK, SONY. Please don't use USB pendrives from 'NO-NAME' companies - they may cause problems on various BIOSES.


Following video presents installation to USB pendrive media:

Manual installation to USB

Available for kon-boot v2.6 (if you use this feature in kon-boot v2.7 the older version (2.6) will be installed)


Requirements:

  • Your BIOS need to be configured to start from the USB media. If you don't know how to configure your BIOS please check external video tutorials - here
  • USB thumb drive (FAT32 filesystem)

Please note: files located on your USB thumb drive may be overwritten!Installation steps:

  1. Insert your target USB pendrive
  2. If you are using Windows Vista or newer system please right click on 'usb_install_RUNASADMIN.bat' and pick 'Run As Administrator' option. Otherwise just double click on 'usb_install_RUNASADMIN.bat' file (bat files are located in the 'kon-bootUSB' directory, so by default the entire path is 'c:kon-bootkon-bootUSB')
  3. Follow the displayed instructions. USB Tutorial video is available here


Secure Boot Bypass

Starting from 3.5 version (commercial licenses) Kon-Boot is able to bypass Secure Boot protection on PCs (excluding Apple computers). Following tutorial explains how to boot Kon-Boot while the Secure Boot option is enabled in BIOS:

  1. Prepare your Kon-Boot USB pendrive with Secure Boot Bypass option enabled
  2. Boot your target computer with Kon-Boot pendrive
  3. Enroll selected key as presented on the image below:
  4. Reboot, Kon-Boot should be loaded automatically


UEFI and Secure Boot feature

Starting from 3.5 version (commercial licenses) Kon-Boot is able to bypass Secure Boot protection on PCs (excluding Apple computers). See Secure Boot Bypass for details.

In order to use Kon-Boot in UEFI mode you need to make sure that the UEFI BIOS is not configured to use Secure Boot feature. Secure Boot feature is typically disabled however in case of any problems please enter the BIOS setup and disable the Secure Boot option manually (see examples below).

Above: UEFI Secure Boot option on ASRock motherboard


Above: UEFI Secure Boot option on Samsung motherboard


Disabling Secure Boot feature on Lenovo:

  1. Set Secure Boot option to disabled
  2. In the 'Restart' tab, select 'Disabled' for 'OS Optimized Defaults' option and accept potential warnings
  3. In the 'Restart' tab select 'Load Setup Defaults' option and accept the displayed warnings
  4. Exit and save changes

Alternative approach:

  1. Set Secure Boot option to disabled
  2. Set the 'OS Optimized Defaults' to 'Other OS'
  3. Use the 'Reset to setup mode' option in one of the BIOS tabs
  4. Exit and save changes


If you still have problems check out other youtube videos tutorials on this topic.

Kon

Disable virtualization support in BIOS

How

Newer Windows version use Virtualization-based Security (VBS) and/or hypervisor security. This can cause BSODs (Blue Screen Of Death) during loading Windows with Kon-Boot (Kon-Boot does not support virtualization). In order to prevent this from happening go to your BIOS setup and temporarily disable virtualization support (VT/VT-x) as presented on screenshots below.

This step is optional, try it if you experience Blue Screen of Death during booting your target Windows machine with Kon-Boot.

Following screenshots present how to disable virtualization support on various BIOSES (don't forget to SAVE the changed settings).

Automatic Powershell Script Execution Feature

Starting from version 2.7 (commercial edition only) kon-boot allows user to run automatic powershell script just after the boot of target operating system. Powershell script of user choice is being run with full system rights. This gives excellent and very powerful opportunity for the forensics team to gather all the necessary data from the target system. Right now the feature works only in UEFI mode and on Windows 8 / Windows 10 systems (x64).

Following video presents this feature at work:


In order to use this feature just edit the 'auto.ps1' file on your kon-boot USB media.

Will this feature be added to normal (legacy) BIOS mode?

It seems rather unlikely. Legacy BIOS Kon-Boot loader is very hard to maintain, additional unscheduled constant Windows 8 / Windows 10 security updates do not make things easier. Finally UEFI is now recognized as the BIOS replacement. Check our faq for more detailed answer on this topic.

Sticky Keys Feature

What's Sticky Keys Feature?Sticky keys is a new Kon-Boot escalation feature which allows user to spawn a console window with system admin rights before the user is logged in. Kon-Boot allows you to get console window while the Windows login screen is still active.

Requirements:

Boot
  • Windows operating system booted with kon-boot
  • Sticky keys must be enabled in your target Windows system (they are by default)
  • Kon-bootV2.1 and higher

Minitool partition wizard 7.
Usage steps:

  • In order to activate sticky keys feature please tap SHIFT 5 times (FAST). (it should work with default Windows configurations)

Video tutorial available below:


Following commands should be typed manually in the console:


How to change profile password?

Please note: this is only for local accounts:

To change your password you can try the following way (after booting with kon-boot):

  1. Navigate the Start Menu to Control Panel
  2. Select 'User Accounts and Family Safety'
  3. If the User Account Control window appears click 'Yes' and leave the password field empty
  4. Select 'Create a new account'
  5. Create the account (pick a name) and set the permissions (administrator).
  6. Disconnect Kon Boot and restart the computer to restore original Windowsauthentication functionality.

After restart:

  1. Select your new User Account (the account you have created)
  2. Navigate the Start Menu to Control Panel
  3. Select 'User Accounts and Family Safety'
  4. Select the target User Account (the one you want to change)
  5. Select 'Change the password'
  6. Input the new information for the account and click 'Change password'
  7. You are done

How to change profile password using console?


You can change your local account password by using the Sticky Keys Feature and using following commands:

net user username newpassword

where the username is the name of the local account and newpassword is the new password for this local account. Please note this is only for local accounts.

How to remove kon-boot account on Windows


You can delete your local Windows account by using the Sticky Keys Feature and using following commands:

net user username /delete

Kon Boot 2.6

where the username is the name of the local account.

So in case of kon-boot account, type:

net user kon-boot /delete

and press enter.

Password expired

If you experience 'password has expired and needs to be changed' error during your login attempt it simply means that your password has expired. This is caused by custom Windows password policy not a problem of Kon-Boot itself.

Kon Boot 2.6 Crack

To fix this issue (after booting the target Windows OS with Kon-Boot):

  1. Use the Sticky Keys Feature to activate the administrator console
  2. Type: net user username /expires:never (where username is the target user name)
  3. If previous step was not enough, try typing: net user username newpassword (where username is the target user name)
  4. Reboot for changes to take effect

Locked account (account unlock)

It should be possible to unlock a locked Windows account by using the Sticky Keys Feature:

  1. Use the Sticky Keys Feature to activate the administrator console
  2. Type: net user username /active=yes (where username is the target user name)
  3. Reboot for changes to take effect

If this is a domain account please try:

  1. Use the Sticky Keys Feature to activate the administrator console
  2. Type: net user username /DOMAIN /active:YES (where username is the target user name)
  3. Reboot for changes to take effect

Please note Kon-Boot is a tool for bypassing passwords not really designed for unlocking so this information is just 'extra'.

Windows 10 Online Authorization Support

UPDATE 05.2018: Windows 10 online account authorization bypass was added to the 2.8 Kon-Boot Release (commercial licenses only, UEFI systems only).

Following video completely illustrates this entire process:


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As for personal licenses:

Personal licenses does not offer online authorization bypass on Windows 10 systems. However user can still access the system as local administrator. In fact in the kon-boot v2.5 administrator account can be added automatically, as presented in the following scenario:

  1. Boot your machine with kon-boot on USB (usb version is required)
  2. Wait until your Windows 10 machine boots up
  3. You should see following message displayed on the screen
  4. If you want to get your new administrator account added click YES and follow the rest of instructions displayed on the screen

In case of problems (i.e. when message box was not displayed) you can add the administrator account manually using the sticky keys feature. Please see the Sticky Keys Feature for further details.

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Windows HELLO login

If you account is an online (live) Windows 10 account and you have a commercial Kon-Boot license (commercial kon-boot licenses allow to bypass Windows 10 online/live passwords (UEFI)) you can bypass the Windows HELLO authorization as well.

Please notice: for online/live password bypass option to work it is necessary to wait approximetely ~5minutes after Windows login screen appears (Kon-Boot message box should be displayed on the screen when things are ready).

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  1. After selecting your target account, please pick Sign-in options
  2. Pick Microsoft account password option (or PIN alternatively)
  3. Put any password / pin (not blank) and press enter


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