Free Kon-Boot Alternatives

The best free alternative to Kon-Boot is Lazesoft Recovery Suite. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try John the Ripper or ophcrack. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Kon-Boot and six of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Kon-Boot are Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Trinity Rescue Kit and PC Login Now.

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Kon-Boot is an application which will silently bypass the authentication process of Windows based operating systems....

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Kon-Boot alternatives page was last updated Sep 6, 2022
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    Lazesoft Recovery Suite is a very easy to use ALL-IN-ONE boot disk that repair your crashed Windows, recover data from deleted, formatted, damaged partition, clone or backup disk, reset your forgotten Windows password.

    157 Lazesoft Recovery Suite alternatives

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • HK flagHong Kong SAR China

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Lazesoft Recovery Suite Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Password Recovery
    3.  Windows password recovery
    4.  Windows repair
    5.  Rescue cd

    Lazesoft Recovery Suite VS Kon-Boot

     
    • Lazesoft Recovery Suite is the most popular Windows alternative to Kon-Boot.

    • Lazesoft Recovery Suite is the most popular free alternative to Kon-Boot.

    • Lazesoft Recovery Suite is Free Personal and ProprietaryKon-Boot is Paid and Proprietary
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    John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported...

    15 John the Ripper alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku

    John the Ripper Features

    1.  Password Recovery

    John the Ripper VS Kon-Boot

     
    Comments about John the Ripper as an Alternative to Kon-Boot
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    Negative May 21, 2018
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    John the Ripper is a password cracker where Kon-Boot bypasses the login password all together.

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    Negative Sep 4, 2018
    8

    Password bypass function isn't there, which is present in KonBoot

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    • Some users think John the Ripper is a great Kon-Boot alternative, some don't.

    • John the Ripper is the most popular Linux alternative to Kon-Boot.

    • John the Ripper is the most popular Open Source alternative to Kon-Boot.

    • John the Ripper is Free and Open SourceKon-Boot is Paid and Proprietary
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    Ophcrack is a Windows Password cracker based on Rainbow Tables.

    Features

    Cracks LM and NTLM Windows hashes Free tables available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 Brute-force module for simple passwords Audit mode and CSV export Real-time graphs to analyze the pas.

    9 ophcrack alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • CH flagSwitzerland

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    ophcrack Features

    1.  Password Recovery

    ophcrack VS Kon-Boot

     
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    Windows stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible.

    12 Offline NT Password & Registry Editor alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • NO flagNorway

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    The last update was in 2014.

    Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Password Recovery

    Offline NT Password & Registry Editor VS Kon-Boot

     
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    Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. Since version 3.

    27 Trinity Rescue Kit alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • BE flagBelgium
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Trinity Rescue Kit Features

    1.  Password Recovery
    2.  Windows repair

    Trinity Rescue Kit VS Kon-Boot

     
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    Forgot the Administrator's Password? PCLoginNow will help with forgot passwords in Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003. You can Reset or Recover Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista Administrator Password with PCLoginNow.

    12 PC Login Now alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    Official site on sale now.

    PC Login Now Features

    1.  Password Recovery
    2.  Windows password recovery

    PC Login Now VS Kon-Boot

     
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