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).

BIOS / CMOS Tools

• CMOS 0.93: CMOS Save / Restore Tool.
• BIOS Cracker 4.6: BIOS password remover (cmospwd).
• BIOS Cracker 1.4: BIOS password remover (cmospwc).
• BIOS Utility 1.35.0: BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more.
• !BIOS 3.20: a powerfull utility for bios and cmos.
• DISKMAN4: a powerful all in one utility.
• UniFlash 1.40: bios flash utility.
• Kill CMOS: a tiny utility to wipe cmos.

Collection of Dos Utilities

Disk Clone Tools

• ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002): Best software to clone hard drive.
• Norton Ghost 8.2: Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support).
• Acronis True Image 8.0: Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning.
• Partition Saver 2.80: A tool to backup/restore partitions.

Dos File Managers

• Volkov Commander 4.99: Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support (Similar to Norton Commander).
• Dos Command Center 5.1: Classic dos-based file manager.
• File Wizard 1.35: a file manager – colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc.
• File Maven 3.5: an advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file transfers via serial or parallel cable.
• FastLynx 2.0: Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability.
• 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 Ram Drive, with ntfs support, Added 7-Zip which supports .7z .zip .cab .rar .arj .gzip .bzip2 .z .tar .cpio .rpm and .deb, Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor, Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc…

Dos Tools

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

Partition Tools

• Partition Magic Pro 8.05: Best software to partition hard drive.
• Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0: Popular disk management functions in a single suite.
• Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1057: Universal tool for partitions.
• Partition Commander 9.01: The safe way to partition your hard drive,with undo feature.
• Ranish Partition Manager 2.44: a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.
• The Partition Resizer v1.3.4: move and resize your partitions in one step and more.
• Smart Fdisk 2.05: a simple harddisk partition manager.
• SPecial Fdisk 2000: SPFDISK a partition tool.
• eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3: XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition.
• GDisk 1.1.1: Complete replacement for the DOS FDISK utility and more.

RAM (Memory) Testing Tools

• DocMemory 2.2b: RAM Test utility.
• GoldMemory 5.07: RAM Test utility.
• Memtest86+ 1.60: PC Memory Test.

Recovery Tools

• Active Partition Recovery 3.0: To Recover a Deleted partition.
• Active Uneraser 3.0: To recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS systems.
• Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.10: To Recover data that has been deleted/virus attack.
• Winternals Disk Commander 1.1: more than just a standard deleted-file recovery utility.
• TestDisk 5.8: Tool to check and undelete partition.
• Lost & Found 1.06: a good old data recovery software.
• DiyDataRecovery Diskpatch 2.1.100: An excellent data recovery software.
• Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 v1.1.2.64: Another excellent data recovery software with many other options.

System Information Tools

• Aida16 2.12: a system information tool, extracts details of all components of the PC.
• PCI and AGP info Tool: The PCI System information & Exploration tool.
• System Analyser version 5.3j: View extensive information about your hardware.
• Navratil Software System Information 0.58.6: High-end professional system information tool.
• Astra 5.10: Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant.
• HwInfo 4.9.7: a powerful system information utility.
• PC-Config 9.33: Complete hardware detection of your computer.
• SysChk 2.46: Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC.
• CPU Identification utility v1.8: Detailed information on CPU.
• CTIA CPU Information: another CPU information tool.

Testing Tools

• System Speed Test 4.78: it tests CPU, harddrive, etc.
• PC-Check 5.50: Easy to use hardware tests.
• Ontrack Data Advisor 5.0: Powerful diagnostic tool for assessing the condition of your computer.
• The Troubleshooter 7.02: all kind of hardware testing tool.
• PC Doctor 3.0: a benchmarking and information tool.
• Test Cpu/Video/Disk 5.6: a tool to test cpu, video, and disk.
• Test Hard Disk Drive 1.0: a tool to test Hard Disk Drive.

Hard Disk Tools

• Seagate Seatools Desktop Edition 3.02
• Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools: Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04c
• Maxtor PowerMax 4.21
• Maxtor amset utility 4.0
• Maxtor(or any Hdd) Low Level Formatter 1.1
• Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 6.30
• Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0
• Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 1.28
• Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28
• IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.04
• IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.80
• Gateway GwScan 3.15
• MHDD 4.5
• HDD Regenerator 1.51: to recover a bad hard drive.
• Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57: Disk Test/Format/Maintenance tool.
• 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.
• Active Kill Disk 1.1: Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive.
• SmartUDM 2.00: Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer.

MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools

• MBR Work 1.07b: a utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR functions.
• MBR Tool 2.1.100: backup, verify, restore, edit, refresh, remove, display, re-write…
• DiskMan4: all in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more.
• BootFix Utility: Run this utility if you get ‘Invalid system disk’.
• MBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1: BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore MBR.
• Boot Partition 2.50: add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader.
• Partition Table Doctor 3.0: a tool to repair/modify mbr, bootsector, partition table.
• Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1: a multi boot manager.
• Bootmagic 8.0: This tool is for multi boot operating systems.

MultiMedia Tools

• 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.
• MpxPlay 1.15: a small Music Player for dos.

NTFS Tools

• NTFS Dos Pro 5.0: To access ntfs partitions from Dos.
• NTFS 4 Dos 1.4: To access ntfs partitions from Dos.
• NTFS Dos 3.02: To access ntfs partitions from Dos.
• EditBINI 1.01: to Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition.

Other Tools

• Ghost Walker 2003.793: utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP.
• DosCDroast beta 2: Dos CD Burning Tools.
• Universal TCP/IP Network 5.4: 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.

Password Tools

• Active Password Changer 3.0: To Reset User Password on windows NT/2000/XP/2003 (FAT/NTFS).
• Offline NT/2K/XP Password Changer: utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.
• NTPWD: utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.

Windows Tools

• SpaceMonger 1.4: keeping track of the free space on your computer.
• Drive Temperature 1.0: Hard Disk Drive temperature meter.
• Disk Speed1.0: Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool.
• MemTest 1.0: a Memory Testing Tool.
• PageDfrg 2.3: System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP.
• Split Join 1.3.3: a Small File Split-Join Tool.
• Ghost Image Explorer 7.0: to add/remove/extract files from Ghost image file.
• DriveImage Explorer 5.0: to add/remove/extract files from Drive image file.
• Drive SnapShot 1.36: creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running.
• Active Undelete 5.0: a tool to recover deleted files.
• Restoration 2.5.14: a tool to recover deleted files.
• Startup Control Panel 2.8: a tool to edit startup programs.
• Startup Monitor 1.02: it notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup.
• IB Process Manager 1.02: a little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll info etc.
• HijackThis 1.99: a general homepage hijackers detector and remover and more.
• CurrPort 1.07: displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your computer.
• Unknown Devices 1.2: helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.
• PCI 32 Sniffer 1.1: device information tool (similar to unknown devices).
• NewSID 4.10: utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP.
• Double Driver 1.0: Driver Backup and Restore tool.
• Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06: find and remove spyware, adware, dialers etc. (a must have tool).