FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD v2 0

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F A L C O N F O U R P R O U D L Y P R E S E N T S |
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T I T L E | FalconFour\'s Ultimate Boot CD v2.0 | D A T E | Aug 14, 2009 |
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D E S C R I P T I O N |
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In this boot CD are the most popular and useful tools anyone would ever need. The
best of the free software, the best of the commercial software, and it all fits on
one CD-R that\'s readable by any computer worth booting on. Not everything can read
a DVD, and USB booting is hit and miss at best.

This is the Ultimate Boot CD that I\'ve used myself, and all the combined tools I
use for PC diagnostics at the shop I work at. It\'s been part of my toolbox for
years.With the release of Hiren\'s BootCD 9.7, the entire playing field has been
shifted, with the new MiniXP boot functionality. It\'s a 30mb image that loads and
decompresses into RAM, then boots Windows off RAM at lightning speed - including
reading to RAM, it appears to boot even faster than off a hard drive... and still
gives you network (and internet) functionality on many PCs. Many drivers for net
and SATA are built right in, but you can load anything with the F6 driver prompt
during startup.

Hiren\'s XP BootCD is an extremely useful diagnostic tool, and is at the heart of
this BootCD. However, several techs (myself included) have found issues with the
lack of easy access to the multitude of tools on the disc, so I modified the disk
image to add shortcuts to many popular applications right on the desktop, and
added a shiny wallpaper :P . More applications can be found by browsing the CD\'s
\"PROGRAMS\" folder.

Many techs use ERD Commander, which (after the Microsoft acquisition) is now
known as Microsoft DaRT - the Diagnostic and Recovery Toolkit. It\'s a considerably
smaller (than Hiren/UBCD4Win) set of extremely useful and specialized tools to
repair Windows. I\'ve repackaged the XP version into a lightning-fast-booting
compressed RAM disk, and added DaRT 6.0 for Windows Vista. Both versions include
tools like Offline System Restore, System File Checker, and Crash Analyzer.

If you work in a tech shop, you know the pain of user passwords. The typical order
of business would be to use NTPWEdit to erase the login passwords (replaces Active
Password Changer). However, Kon-Boot actually patches the Windows kernel in RAM
during startup, causing it to ignore an incorrect password at login! You can log in
without entering the user\'s password, perform your tech duties, shut the system off,
and their password stays intact. It\'s still an experimental tool, and often fails to
start on many computers, but it\'s a great new tool that makes a valuable addition to
a tech toolkit.

Once you dive into this disc, you\'ll never need another boot CD.