Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sysprep - Description of the Windows XP Corporate Deployment tools and documentation

Sysprep
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321880

The Windows XP Corporate Deployment tools contain the following tools and documentation:
Deploy.chm: This is the "Microsoft Windows Corporate Deployment Tools User's Guide" documentation.
Ref.chm: This is the "Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Reference" documentation.
Factory.exe, Setupcl.exe, and Sysprep.exe: These are the Sysprep components. Sysprep is a tool that prepares the hard disk on a source computer for duplication on other computers with the same hard disks.
Oformat.com: This is a command-line tool to create a volume that uses the FAT32 file system. The tool creates a FAT32 volume with clusters that are aligned in an optimal way for later conversion to the NTFS file system.
Cvtarea.exe: This is a command-line tool to create files and to analyze the placement of those files on a volume that uses the FAT32 or FAT file system. You can use this tool to create a contiguous file in a specific location on the disk. This may be useful if your manufacturing processes requires you to format a hard disk with the FAT or FAT32 file system before you convert the hard disk to the NTFS file system. You can use the Cvtarea tool to create a reserved, contiguous, placeholder file that is to be used for the NTFS metadata files after the conversion. This causes the resulting file system to be less fragmented and more efficient.
Setupmgr.exe: This is the Setup Manager Wizard. You can use this to create or to modify the files that control an unattended Setup.
Readme.txt: This is the Readme documentation for the Windows XP Corporate Deployment tools.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Good AntiMalware

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBAM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes%27_Anti-Malware 
http://malwarebytes.org/ 


Hitman Pro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_Pro 
http://www.surfright.nl/en 

Create ISO from folder

Folder2Iso just creates an iso from any kind of folder (with the subfolders).
Its a GUI of mkisofs
mkisofs, a CD filesystem image creator. Because these tools don't include any GUI, many graphical front-ends have been created

http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareFolder2Iso.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrtools

Cdrtools - Highly portable CD/DVD/BluRay command line recording software

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html 

 

Monday, December 13, 2010

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Clean Up Utility

The utility removes Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 and its components from Windows

Description

Acronis Clean Up Utility is a console application that removes Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 and its components from Windows.
The utility is written using plain commands of command line interpreter (cmd.exe) included in Windows 2000 and higher.




Restore to Dissimilar Hardware

P2V restoration:
V2P restoration:
Dissimilar hardware restoration:
Restore to different hardware:
  • StorageCraft Shadowprotect - "Hardware Independent Restore" (HIR)
  • Acronis Backup & Recovery - "Universal Restore"
  • Symantecs Backup Exec System Recovery - "Restore Anyware"

Troubleshooting tips and tricks for the Restore Anyware Option (RAO)
Using the Hidden Options for Restore Anyware when restoring an image from the Symantec Recovery Disk (SRD)

    Sunday, December 12, 2010

    Hardware Identification Programs / System Profiler Software

    computer diagnostics, system profiling, benchmark, overclocking, troubleshooting, hardware and software installed.

    system profiler software
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_profiler

    Hardware Identification Programs:
    Sandra, Everest/Aida, HWInfo

    http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%2BSandra+%2BEverest+%2BHwinfo&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=


    How to Find Device ID’s to Resolve Unknown Device Problems 
    (http://www.webcitation.org/5uvnKqRwc)

    http://www.pcidatabase.com/ 

    To identify the device by its PCI ID, refer to http://pciids.sourceforge.net

    http://driveragent.com/ 
    http://biosagentplus.com/ 
    http://esupport.com/ 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies 

    eSupport.com Partners With FinalWire Ltd., the Creators of AIDA64 Extreme Edition)
    Newest version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition features DriverAgent & BIOSAgentPlus

    http://www.aida64.com/ 

    Phoenix Technologies(R) Helps Consumers Recover Lost Files With New FileRestorePlus(TM)
    Upgraded FileRestorePlus expands PC tools and Optimization products available through eSupport.com

    http://filerestoreplus.com/ 


     


     

    Friday, December 10, 2010

    Program to manage other computers on the network?

    Alchemy Remote Executor

    EMCO Remote Installer

    SysTracer - Track file and registry changes in your computer

    http://www.blueproject.ro/systracer 

    SysTracer v2.2: trace your system changes

    SysTracer is a system utility tool that can scan and analyze your computer to find changed (added, modified or deleted) data into registry and files.
    SysTracer can scan your system and record information about:
    • changed files and folders
    • modified registry entries
    • system services
    • system drivers
    • applications that are configured to run at computer startup
    • running processes
    • loaded dlls
    Each scan operation performed with SysTracer generates a binary image file representing a snapshot of your system.
    Recording the snapshot usually takes a few minutes depending on your system complexity. You can choose to scan only specific parts from folders or registry, in order to speed up the recording process.
    By comparing snapshots from before and after a new program installation or execution, you can determine which files or registry entries were added, changed, or deleted.
    You can create as many snapshots as you may want or need, and you can compare anytime any pair of them, having the possibility to export differences to HTML list.

    SysTracer Pro

    SysTracer Pro is an enhanced version of SysTracer. SysTracer Pro have advanced functionality like exporting and importing snapshots, useful in order to compare snapshots taken on different computers.
    With SysTracer Pro you can search for files, folders and registry information into recorded snapshots.
    SysTracer Pro have command line support, for automating recording snapshots and exporting snapshots differences.
    Visit SysTracer features section for a detailed comparison matrix between SysTracer and SysTracer Pro.

    Remote scanning - track changes from network computers

    SysTracer have support for remote scanning, providing you an easy way to take snapshots of your network computers.
    In order to allow scanning, each computer from your network will have a SysTracer executable installed as windows service.
    The management of the entire process is done from a single computer (server) with a SysTracer instance running in normal desktop mode. From this server you will be able to control each SysTracer client by selecting scan targets, sending scan commands and receiving resulted snapshots.

    Portable version

    SysTracer can be used with or without installation.
    Using the portable version - without installation - you can take snapshots of your system without making any changes to the current files or Windows registry.
    The application can be used directly from the HDD or from an USB flash drive.

    http://www.blueproject.ro/systracer

    Thursday, December 2, 2010

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