While we covered bootable logon password bypassing utility KON-BOOT as a security nightmare, there could be genuine uses of the utility in cases where such circumvention is needed for legal uses like forgotten password, corporate usage (login to company computer after an employee leaves or is not available), parental administration or law agencies.

KON-BOOT is now updated to version 2.1, with added support for Windows 8 (non EFI support) logon password bypass with an optional sticky keys feature which allows user to spawn an admin privileged console before logging into the computer. The utility now also have an Mac OS X flavor which allows login into MAC computers with a new “root” account having username and password as "kon-boot".

Demonstration videos of both Windows and Mac OS X admin logging using KON-BOOT with root privileges after the jump.

EASEUS is a well-known brand specializing in easy to use data-recovery and backup software development, few days ago they did an exclusive promo with our blog giving away unlimited free licenses of Partition Table Doctor utility to our readers - now we have another promotional giveaway of unlimited free licenses of EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard V 5.0.1 worth $69.95 for our blog readers.

The newest version EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard V 5.0.1 supports advanced data recovery from Hard-disks, RAID's, USB drives, memory cards etc. allowing users to get back their deleted files or lost data due to partition loss or damage done because of software crash, virus infection, unexpected shutdown or any other unknown reasons.

Imagine the security nightmare if general users are able to bypass your operating system security and logon as Administrator or root account having all privileges by simply inserting an floppy or CD, now this scary situation is possible using a prototype software KON-BOOT which hacks into Windows and linux kernel on the fly while booting, the novice friendly softwares allows users to bypass logon passwords completely by simply booting via the KON-BOOT CD or Floppy disk, in its current incarnation the software has been tested to bypass logon passwords on Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.

Just follow the simple steps ahead to create KON-BOOT bootable CD or Floppy and bypass logon passwords easily.

Reinstalling Windows is an daunting task as you have to re-install drivers, service packs, hotfixes, common software's and perform customization tasks on each install, the whole process takes about 5-6 hours on a decently powered computer requiring active user interaction, but here is a sleek solution for the problem - free utility SysAngel DVD Generator lets you create an all-in-one unattended Windows XP bootable DVD integrated with latest drivers, Service Packs, hotfixes, software's, and customizations for complete install requiring just 15 minutes of your active participation in front of the screen.

The DVD will boot a Linux-based OS asking all the necessary questions at start requiring no user intervention later, user can choose to format the hard-disk or preserve the data in which case only C:\Windows and C:\Program files folders are erased, old "Documents and Settings" folder will get renamed to "Documents and Settings.OLD" preserving customization settings and data for importing later, options for integrating an PXE/RIS server is also provided for network based operations.

I have written about creating bootable USB disk using free software, but it is of no use if the motherboard or BIOS does not support USB booting, if you are stuck in a situation where BIOS does not support booting from USB or CD-ROM, free boot-manager PLoP would be the best solution for the problem, the easy to use boot manager can work with your existing boot-loader and even without the need to install on hard-disk.

PLoP Boot Manager can launch from floppy, CD, network or existing boot manager like LILO, GRUB, Windows boot menu and DOS, once launched you can use PLoP to boot from USB and CD-ROM even if BIOS does not support these options.

BootZilla is a free, simple to use bootable cd for computer technicians and advanced computer users, to perform advance computing tasks like removal of viruses and hardware tests to pinpoint hardware failures without booting into windows.

The toolkit provides common windows troubleshooting softwares into a easy to use package with bootable functionality and can come in handy while your computer is screwed up because of some malware, virus or hardware issue.

AdvanceMame is a free "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" bootable LiveCD/USB based on Linux,this fun filled arcade cd features - a frontend with animated MNG/MP3 snapshots, a rom manager, and a recompression utilities for compressed files.