[RESOLVED] What programs do you use

Which programs do you use a lot on the job?
I am trying to make a few CD's with a lot of useful stuff and need to know what to put on them

[AlienDyne]

Here's my list:

Norton Ghost
SiSoft Sandra 2000 Professional
Passmark Burn-in Test
Passmark Performance Test
BCM Diagnostics
TuffTest
Norton System Works 2000
Norton Antivirus
McAfee Antivirus
WinDVD, PowerDVD
Easy CD Creator 4
File Shredder
Winzip
Winrar
WinImage 5
Getright
Gozilla



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[ReBoot]

I see AlienDyne likes lots of commercial software. Not me.
On the job, I use Fdisk, format, and one small commercial tester called "The Troubleshooter". That's it.
Who needs all that expensive BS to set up a system?
If you're a computer builder and tech (repairer), you really don't need all that crap. Sure, some are nice, but you won't find anyone I know using Norton or McAfee anything...

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[ledrichard]

I agree. You need to keep everything down to the basics ie:antivirus(updated),bootdisks(various oses), and of course drivers. Ghost is something that will not always work, but it is good to keep handy. I think all of those diagnostic programs really dont work at all. besides, If your machine does not boot up, how can you install diagnostic sw? oh and of couse ERU! my 2 cents

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[AlienDyne]

Guys, Taqwus asked us what programs we use at job. He didn't specify when building, when repairing, when testing a new machine, or when troubleshooting one!

I have 3 CDs containing drivers, CDs with various utilities (some of them are mentioned above) and 2 CDs containing CAB files from almost all Windows versions.

Yes. I use Ghost. Yes, I use System Works 2K. And yes. I use Sandra 2K, when it's needed. They've helped me a lot in the past and I'm sure they'll help me a lot in the future. That programs, or similar ones.

I do lots of things besides Computer Building. I have to repair and troubleshoot too. Some programs do worth the try!




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[thirdfey]

Hey, this isn't a whose got the bigger dick contest!!!! its what do you use when you work. Reboot- WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?! Sorry we're not a "true tech" like you. These forums are starting to get out of hand, everyone just cuts on each other. ANSWER THE POST, DON'T CRITICIZE THE RESPONSE!!!!!

thats my two cents
Tony

[Jediab]

Well, here is what I like to use,

Everquest
X-Wing vs TIE Fighter,
Quake III
Diablo II
Age of Empires II
X-Wing Alliance
NASCAR 2000
NHL 2000
Rollercoaster Tycooon
You Don't Know Jack series
Microsoft's The Zone


Oh wait, you meant at work. Oh well the only thing that I really use is Ghost. That is the only thing that we are allowed to use. We use NT across the board formated in NTFS, so there goes the good ol DOS utilities. If a pc has trouble, Ghost it. Frickin stupid if you ask me, but I am not "Management". If I was, my place of employment would probably run better. At least in own little world anyway.

Welp lets pull out the old disk case.

95B boot disk packed full including ofdisk and oformat and generic cd driver
Ghost6
Zip drive DOS install with guest.exe
Stuff CD - all kinds of goodies here
95A boot disk
Zap for wiping any drive clean in 2 seconds
98 boot disk
Asus P3B-F cd with PCCILLIN
USR drivers disk includes most winmodems
Norton Commander 5 DOS
NDD (aahhh!!)
98 Preload
Cabs CD
Mcafee boot disk
Recover NT?
Backup CD
Fastlynx (when using zip drive in DOS)
SpinRite 5.0 bootable - MUST HAVE
95B OEM
SBPCI 128 driver cd
DOS 5.0 boot disk
Daytona auto detect vga driver install cd - works with almost any PCI vid card
95 Preload
Various driver cds
Backup Exec
ATI international install cd
MS Y2K resource cd (has SP5)
Office 97
NT WS and Server
SB 16-32-64 install
3Com master cd
Winzip
Disk with MSCONFIG for 95 yes it works


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Paint your old laptop!

Well lesse.. tool I use at work...

First off, my floppies:
Trouble Shooter
SysChk (for getting sys specs)
WD Ez-Drive 9 (the last one that still works on every drive)
Custom 95 boot disk with 10 diff cd-rom drivers(gotta love startup menus)
95b PreInstall
98 Preinstall
OnTrack Data Advisor
OnTrack Y2K Advisor(Up until last Feb.)
Disk with ReBrand & Winzip 7 (Rebrand is soo small why waste a disk?)
Custom F-Prot Disk(Was one 1.7mb bootable but since the latest updates had to make it two disks BooT & a DaTa AcK!)
Norton Ghost (bootable)
MS-DOS 6.2 (orig)
Windows 3.1 (orig)

Hmm.. now the CD's
Windows 95a Upgrade (orig)
Windows 95a Full Companion (orig)
Windows 95a Full (orig)
Windows 95b Full (orig)
Windows 95b/USB Full Companion (orig)
Windows 95b/USB Full (orig)
Windows 98 Upgrade (orig)
Windows 98 Full (orig)
Windows 98SE Upgrade (orig)
Windows 98SE Full (orig)
PC DOS 7/Windows 3.1 (orig)
CD-o-Drivers (most common)
CD-o-Shareware (Proggyz & Utilz)

I think that's all...... for now

[ReBoot]

I wasn't ragging on AllenDyne, I was ragging on McAfee, Norton, et al.
They've got so many people brainwashed into thinking that THEIR stuff is the best and ONLY thing to use. BS.
I use so many different things, the list is huge. I posted only the first/most important 3. As Dog Spot mentions above, all the win CD's and more, but NEVER the Nort/McA crap.
Sorry for the misconception.

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tech net (or current patches/updates for MS products)
ghost
f-prot
at least 1 cd with current viruses
for that troublesum user

[spinning]

Ok my question concerns licensing. I use various programs on many systems for various reasons, along with several others mentioned here. Is anyone concerned about using these commercial programs on computers that aren't licensed to use them?

For instance, I work with about 500 computers in one of my jobs, and my company only has 1 copy of ghost, which I have used on all the computers at one time or another, just not all at once. Now I know this is a serious issue of underlicensing, but I wonder how many others are doing the same thing by carring around "spare" copies of commercial software to use and then deleting from the system.

This is not a "knock" just an observation.

[Shades]

Lemme see...

Most of the OS's inc.
Redhat, FreeBSD (minus MACOS)
boot disks for win9x
DOS - a good ole MUST HAVE with the utils
that covers most things, the rest... well find it on the net - somewhere (hopefully there is a net machine around )))) )