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Kon-boot does not allow you to bypass the authentication on an Active Directory domain.

An вЂњaccess deniedвЂќ message is displayed by the system.

EFS (Encrypted File System) encrypted files can not be accessed because they are encrypted with the real password.

These certificates are used to decrypt encrypted email, websites and other connections.

You can not use the private keys stored in the Windows certificates store.

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However, changing the password of other local accounts is possible.

Kon Boot does not allow you to change the password of the account used to log in.

Now because Kon Boot doesnвЂ™t actually know the password to the account, it is unavoidably inhibited in performing certain actions.

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If you do decide to pay for this awesome piece of software, youвЂ™ll get a version that adds Windows 7 and 64-bit support. Kon Boot has a free version that handles virtually all 32-bit versions of Windows except Windows 7.

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Just burn the ISO to a blank DVD or put it on a USB drive following the clear instructions. Some popular BootCDs (like HirenвЂ™s BootCD) even include the free version of Kon Boot saving you from having to create your own bootable disk image. You boot into Kon Boot, Kon Boot will boot into Windows and thatвЂ™s it. Kon Boot can be run from a CD, USB drive or even a good old floppy disk. Guess again, itвЂ™s probably even easier than you imagine it to be right now. Now I can hear you thinking, вЂњIt canвЂ™t possibly be thatВ easy?вЂќ. (No really, I tried вЂњWindows sucks, Linux FTW!вЂќ as a password - it didnвЂ™t seem to upset Windows at all.) Windows will accept anything you input as the correct password, even insults. Doing this, it allows you to log into any local user account using any (or even a blank) password you enter into the password field. Where ntpasswd and Ophcrack help you login with a legitimate password, Kon Boot simply hooks onto WindowsвЂ™ kernel and tells it to disregardВ the authentication of the password entered, correct or not.

Until recently this meant having to wait and wait and wait, having the clientвЂ™s machine just taking up space in the room. This clientвЂ™s really hard to get a hold of, wonвЂ™t answer his phone and wonвЂ™t reply to texts or email. Enter Kon BootД«ack to our password problem. If you would like to know more about cryptography, then I invite you to watch the entire YouTube video. Now this works well with passwords that are easy to guess but if the passwords are more complicated, Ophcrack will take way too long at guessing the password - or it wonвЂ™t find it at all (at least not within our lifespan). These colours and their end products are stored in a table, a rainbow table. Ophcrack basically knows (in some cases, not all) which original colours (passwords) are mixed into the end colour (the hash). The part youвЂ™ll want to take a look at to understand hashing is from 0:40 to 1:05. Just substitute вЂњThe original coloursвЂќ with вЂњThe user passwordвЂќ and youвЂ™re good to go. The below YouTube clip does an excellent job explaining how encrypted communication works and in the process it also shows how hashing works. Hashing is a way of storing passwords without having access to the plain password, which is much more secure than just storing the unencrypted password.

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Ophcrack does a fine job cracking Windows password hashes using so-called rainbow tables.В Basically, Windows stores your user password in a hash, a seemingly arbitrary series of numbers and letters. Although this is very useful, it leaves traces my client has to reset his or her password and actual changes are made to the Windows setup. ntpasswd allows a user to reset the password of a user account by booting from a special boot disk. While they do their job brilliantly and have both saved me on numerous occasions, they have drawbacks. But for multiple reasons, those tools just donвЂ™t seem to cut it for me.

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Now of course I could use fairly established tools such as Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor (also known as ntpasswd for you geeks out there) or Ophcrack.

Now for me, repairs would usually pause here while IвЂ™m waiting for the moment I can get a hold of my client and ask him or her for the correct password. Okay, first obstacle logging into the clientвЂ™s user account. So, letвЂ™s boot this thing and see whatвЂ™s wrong with it this time. Another computer from another (self-proclaimed) client for you to fix.

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