[RESOLVED] Most Useful Program

[iateyourcat]

Originally posted by iateyourcat:
Tha's cracked me up man.

My fav is Hynena followed very closely by ERD Commander Pro. I deal with NT more than 9x..

[Viperz2000]

Originally posted by ctrl@ltd3l:
Get a floppy on a 98SE machine and SYS a: then you take WIPE or ZAP and manually copy FDISK , FORMAT , SYS , MSCDEX and whatever else you ususally use. Has worked on every machine i've worked on. WIPE even wipes out linux or NT partitions!!! when a newbie mucks his machine up. There is another dos file i found to even work with SCSIs but i cant remember what it was.........hope this helps.

I agree...although I carry a regular 98SE boot disk and ghost.

MicroScope is pretty good for quick diagnosing and LL formatting a drive.

[General_Maximus]

For those stubborn HDD's
i have this on a boot disk

debug <fu.txt
the contents of fu.txt are
a cs:100
mov ax,301
mov bx,200
mov cx,1
mov dx,80
int 13
int 20

g
q


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Whose yer daddy?
How come I'm yer daddy
Cause I did this to your Momma, yeah your Momma!!
"SuperFly II"
by JoeCartoon

[u8drtsox]

JGold Hit it right on the Nose.
OutLook is the best "PROGRAM" as the original question stated. It is incorporated into everything you use. It manages your life completly. Get a Palm and your need to drag a franklin planner around with you is null and void. How could you argue with that. Sure I have a ton of tech UTILITIES that have saved my *** at a clients place but as far as I'm concerned the best all around PROGRAM is definately MS Outlook 2000.

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Sometimes I fill my tub up with milk and blow bubbles

[Obley_Wan]

You said it procrastination
but I feel nothing, Nothing can take care of a bad day like a little Counter Strike!

other than that, GHOST and GDISK!

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hey, its me

[the^0rion]

WOOHOO Outlook is probably one of the only really useful programs MS makes. And besides that...I rarely ever have a problem with it!

(As for Outlook express on the other hand...lets not go there.)


the^0rion

[Trong @ PCS]

Ghost gets my vote for increasing productivity, but WinZip should get an honorable mention too!

[Gumby]

As far as programs go, I like Winamp. As far as utillities go I have a custom made win95b boot disk with a cd-rom driver that never fails, msconfig, scanreg, xcopy, xcopy32, sys, fdisk, format, and a slew of other stuff I simply call the "Holy Disk". I also have a bootable CD I made that has every version of windows on it, Ghost, a ton of common drivers, and a load of stuff too long to mention.

Gumby

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The problem with your machine sir is that the nut behind the wheel has a screw loose.

[Orion]

Windows 98 disk and cd two words formnat reinstall
no i use ghost drive image microsoft recorce kit and plenty of others on 4 cd's wow

[DDDWarp]

Ghost and Part Magic hands down. It is also helpful to carry my W95 boot disk. I created with every dos command I could think of and has cdrom support.

[Interex]

format.com

format c: /s

[stevet]

Originally posted by Interex:
format.com

format c: /s

Don't forget '/q' on that format. That way you don't have to watch the hard drive slowly formatting while you sit and think about all the stuff that you should have saved before formatting.

BTW - my vote also goes for Ghost and Gdisk. Fdisk is great, but Gdisk does a lot more and does it all from a command line without user interaction, if you want it to. It works great if you want to do partitioning from a batch file.

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Steve Taylor - Instructional Computing Tech
North Idaho College
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

[Sckott]

My ghost + Win95b custom boot disk rocks harder than Zeppelin.

-Sckott

[behemoth1]

Ez drive, old copy of norton av (3disk set) about 3 driver cd's 2-3 boot disks and ghost!
i always make sure my boot disks have debug and other often skipped dos tools like edit and sysver.......never thouht of toting around a bootable cd....good idea.


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hear that sound? thats me shakin the pillars of heaven baby.

[JimSykora]

Spinrite5.0, Xcopy32, OSR2 Win95boot disk, Ghost, fdisk, and oformat.