Tricks n Tips

Antivirus Tools

• F-Prot Antivirus 3.16b: Very good virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu).
• McAfee Antivirus 4.40: A virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu).

Collection of Dos Utilities

Disk Clone Tools

• Drive Image 2002: Best software to clone hard drive.
• Norton Ghost 8.0: Similar to Drive Image.
• Partition Saver 2.80: A tool to backup/restore partitions.

Dos File Managers

• Dos Command Center 5.1: Classic dos-based file manager.
• FastLynx 2.0: Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability.
• File Maven 3.5: An advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file transfers via serial or parallel cable.
• File Wizard 1.35: A file manager – colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc.
• Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc…
• LapLink 5.0: the smart way to transfer files and directories between PCs.
• Mini Windows 3.11: Back to old days, use it as a file manager.
• Mini Windows 98: Can run from Hard Drive / Ram Drive. Added 7-Zip which supports .7z .zip .cab .rar .arj .gzip .bzip2 .z .tar .cpio .rpm and .deb, Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor.
• Volkov Commander 4.99: Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support (Similar to Norton Commander).

Dos Tools

• Interlnk support at COM1: To access another computer from COM port.
• Interlnk support at LPT1: To access another computer from LPT port.
• NTFS Dos Pro 5.0: To access ntfs partitions from Dos.
• Universal USB Driver 2: Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage.
• USB CD-Rom Driver 1: Standard usb_cd.sys driver for cd drive.

Partition Tools

• eXtended Fdisk: XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition.
• Paragon Partition Manager 6.1.571: Universal tool for partitions.
• Partition Commander 8.01: The safe way to partition your hard drive, with undo feature.
• Partition Magic Pro 8.05: Best software to partition hard drive.
• Ranish Partition Manager 2.44: A boot manager and hard disk partitioner.
• Smart Fdisk 2.05: A simple harddisk partition manager.
• SPecial Fdisk: SPFDISK a partition tool.
• The Partition Resizer v1.3.4: Move and resize your partitions in one step and more.

Recovery Tools

• Active Partition Recovery 3.0: To Recover a Deleted partition.
• Active Password Changer 2.1: To Reset User Password on windows NT/2000/XP/2003 (FAT/NTFS).
• Active Uneraser 3.0: To recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS systems.
• Lost & Found 1.06: A good old data recovery software.
• Offline NT/2K/XP Password Changer: Utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.
• Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.04: To Recover data that has been deleted/virus attack.
• TestDisk 5.8: Tool to check and undelete partition.
• Winternals Disk Commander 1.1: More than just a standard deleted-file recovery utility.

Hard Disk Tools

• Active Kill Disk 1.1: Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive.
• Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 6.30
• Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0
• HDD Regenerator 1.51: to recover a bad hard drive.
• IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.04
• IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.80
• Maxtor (or any Hdd) Low Level Formatter 1.1
• Maxtor amset utility 4.0
• Maxtor PowerMax 4.21
• MHDD 4.4
• Norton Disk Doctor 2002: A tool to repair a damaged disk, or to diagnose your hard drive.
• Norton Disk Editor 2002: A powerful disk editing, manual data recovery tool.
• Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57: Disk Test/Format/Maintenance tool.
• Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.25
• Samsung HDD Utility (HUTIL) 1.25
• Seatools Desktop Edition.
• SmartUDM 2.00: Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer.
• Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools
• Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04c

Other Tools

• Bootmagic 8.0: This tool is for multi boot operating systems.
• DosCDroast beta 2: Dos CD Burning Tools.
• MpxPlay 1.15: A small Music Player for dos.
• Ontrack Data Advisor 5.0: Powerful diagnostic tool for assessing the condition of your computer.
• Picture Viewer 1.94: Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40 filetypes.
• QuickView Pro 2.54: Movie viewer for dos, supports many format including divx.
• Universal TCP/IP Network 5.2: MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based network. The network can either be a peer-to-peer or a server based network, it contains 85 different network card drivers.

System Information Tools

• Aida16 2.12: A system information tool, extracts details of all components of the PC.
• Astra 5.1: Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant.
• HwInfo 4.96: A powerful system information utility.
• Navratil Software System Information 0.58.6: High-end professional system information tool.
• PC-Config 9.33: Complete hardware detection of your computer.
• PCI and AGP info Tool: The PCI System information & Exploration tool.
• SysChk 2.46: Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC.
• System Analyser version 5.3h: View extensive information about your hardware.

Testing Tools

• DocMemory 2.2b: RAM Test utility.
• GoldMemory 6.64: RAM Test utility.
• Memtest86+ 1.55: PC Memory Test.
• PC Doctor 3.0: A benchmarking and information tool.
• PC-Check 5.50: Easy to use hardware tests.
• System Speed Test 4.78: It tests CPU, harddrive, etc.
• Test Cpu/Video/Disk 5.6: A tool to test cpu, video, and disk.
• The Troubleshooter 7.02: All kind of hardware testing tool.

Windows Tools

• Active Undelete 5.0: A tool to recover deleted files.
• Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06: Find and remove spyware, adware, dialers etc. (a must have tool).
• Disk Speed1.0: Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool.
• Drive Temperature 1.0: Hard Disk Drive temperature meter.
• DriveImage Explorer 5.0: To add/remove/extract files from Drive image file.
• Ghost Image Explorer 7.0: To add/remove/extract files from Ghost image file.
• HijackThis 1.99: A general homepage hijackers detector and remover and more.
• IB Process Manager 1.02: A little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll info etc.
• MemTest 1.0: a Memory Testing Tool.
• PageDfrg 2.3: System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP.
• PCI 32 Sniffer 1.1 Device information tool (similar to unknown devices).
• Restoration 2.5.14: A tool to recover deleted files.
• SpaceMonger 1.4: Keeping track of the free space on your computer.
• Split Join 1.3.3: A Small File Split-Join Tool.
• Startup Control Panel 2.8: A tool to edit startup programs.
• Startup Monitor 1.02: a tool that notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup.
• TCPView 2.40: A detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints.
• Unknown Devices 1.2: Helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.