[RESOLVED] What's the oldest utility/program you still regularly use?

fdisk
format
doskey
edit
notepad
calculator
minesweeper (I call it the boredom eliminator "utility")

The oldest non-M$ utility that I still use would be WinZip.

I'm one of those from the old school and there are some utilities I still use from "Back in Da Dayz" and they are:

1) PCTOOLS (DOS)
2) QEDIT (DOS)
3) LIST (DOS)
4) The File Director (DOS) good for removing those really hidden files and directories.
5) File_Diz Extractor (DOS)
6) QEMM (DOS)
7) Qaplus (DOS)
8) Checkit
9) Pkunzip, Pkzip, Lharc, ARJ
10) Pro-Comm Plus (DOS)
11) Desqview
12) Those old Disk copy programs

and a whole lot of others...

Here is the Ztree url. Surprised I couldn't remember it!
http://www.ztree.com

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Originally posted by byd2k:
Oh my god! Who would have thought this would become a subject?

I still on occasion use:
pkzip/pkunzip
deltree
fdisk
format
mscdex
cls
edit

oh and don't forget load*.*,8,1
if I remember right...

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If you're reffering to the commodore 64 it's

LOAD"*",8,1 for the default program
LOAD"$",8,1 then LIST for the directory :)

Thanks for the Ztree link. Looks pretty dead close to the original.

As far as finding a copy of Qedit goes, Jhutto, I may be able to help. Just let me know.

i use PCTools a lot. only on a Tandy 3000 at work, tho. i use it to defrag the harddrive and to do a scandisk type thing. have to make sure all of the "important" data on that 45mb HD doesn't get lost...

Well I just installed OS/2 yesterday on a voice mail server. I spoke with my telephone vendor and he wanted to charge me 12,000 to up grade to Win NT from OS/2...and that was with me supplying the hardware!!

I have a few utilities that I like to use alot
Killcmos.com, it basically overwrites like two bytes of address involved with storing the CMOS data, making it fail its checksum, great for nuking passwords
Ctbios, basically it gives you the BIOS ID string, and even gives you a web address for certain pages
for my dos stuff, I still use a program called Ultra Compressor 2, UC2, it can get 10 percent on most finely packed zip files
I also use the original RAR alot, as well as LHA, but one of the oldest programs that I use has got to be forefront's troubleshooter

C:\MYDOCU~1>
PKZIP C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\DOCS401.ZIP *.*
Is that good enough demonstration?

I'll do you one better, Jason T:

pkzip -&u a:\target.zip c:\download\*.*

My brothers and I used this quite often to span a large file across multiple floppy disks. This was in the days before CD-R's, ZIP drives, or multi-megabyte emails over high speed net connections. Man, do I feel old! If I was a computer, I'd probably be in a dump by now! or maybe a museum

EDIT, FORMAT, FDISK and DIR

notepad.exe
calc.exe (calculator)
sol.exe (solitaire)

Format C:\.exe

Fdisk.exe

Setup.exe

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Originally posted by Jubii:
I've got a buddy who still uses Norton Commander in dos. He claims that it's still as much of a useful program as it was the day he first got it. Oh, by the way... is there any dos left in WinME? Sooner or later it will be a thing of the past...

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i could never understand people liking XTREE GOLD, biggest heap of crap ever made.

format c: /s /u /c /autotest

rconsole.exe

and of course OS/2 but thats only for voice mail...by the way did you know that OS/2 is a piece of crap?