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HawkPE-42 - The PC Tech's Swiss Army Knife Live DVD
A fully-functional WinPE (Windows XP SP2) ISO. Comes w/ AdAware SE + McAfee AV + ClamAV updated as of 29-Dec-08, Windows Explorer, SmartDriverBackup, PCITREE, FoxIt PDF Reader, FileZilla FTP Client, Ghost 8, UltraVNC, Partition Magic 8, CHNTPW (now Vista-compatible), WIPECMOS, MEMTEST, the IBM/Seagate/WD hdrive diagnostics, etc. Boots to WinPE by default. What *is* WinPE, you say ?!? WinPE is a limited version of Windows XP, which boots and operates from a CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive. WinPE doesn't work quite as well as normal Windows XP/2K3/Vista, that is, (for example) it doesn't do wireless or multimedia, but WinPE has *all* of the capabilities you'll need prepare and repair your PCs. Let's say your PC has been overwhelmed by malware or the PC has crashed and Windows won't boot any more. Armed with a copy of HawkPE, you *may* be able to: repair issue that causes the boot failure (replace a broken registry with a backup copy), transfer your data to a USB external drive in anticipation of reinstalling Windows, remove a forgotten Windows login password, or clean the malware infestation (among other things.) OTOH, if you have a new PC and want to give it a custom configuration beyond the conventional single hard disk partition (like yours truly !), then you can boot HawkPE to pre-initialize the PC as desired, prior to running the OS installer. From the HawkPE main menu, you will also have direct access to a suite of excellent utilities for identifying hardware problems, recovering data, and initializing your PC in preparation of a new operating system. Starting with HawkPE #41, there are two separate downloads: a CD ISO (without Slax) and a DVD ISO (including Slax.) The split has permitted the addition of a few more diagnostics to the CD image, while eliminating the Linux payload for those who simply never did/will grok Linux. For those who've been asking, there's now a procedure to transfer HAWKPE to a USB thumb drive and make it bootable, along w/ other additions to the HAWKPE-CHANGES & README-HAWKPE text files ! Slax is an excellent example of a portable Linux, which comes w/ Firefox-2+Flash-9, KDE's KOffice suite, multimedia goodies, and the latest K3B CD/DVD burning application. So with a USB thumb drive and your HAWKPE CD/DVD, you can carry a multimedia-enabled computer system, with you at all times. Enjoy.... As a recap, here's the most up-to-date inventory of what's on the disc: A2Hijack AdAware SE Pro AusLogic Defrag Broadcom 44xx-NIC Drivers Broadcom Extreme-NIC Drivers (Portable) CCleaner Change NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista Passwords Clamwin AV CPUZ Darik's Boot and Nuke (Portable) Driver Genius Firefox Filezilla FoxIt PDF Reader Ghost 8 HWPnP IBM/Hitachi Disk Fitness Test Intel-10-100-1000MHz NIC Drivers Intel-810 Display Drivers Intel-Extreme Display Drivers Microscope 2005 McAfee AV Scanner Memtest86 MemtestPlus MHDD Freeware Hard Drive Repair/Analysis Utility NSSI nVidia Display Drivers Partition Magic 8 PCITree PowerDefragmenter PuTTY Python Sala Password Renew-Beta Samsung HUTIL [2.10] Hard Drive Diagnostic SeaTools (Seagate/Maxtor) Drive Diagnostics Smart Driver Backup Spyware Doctor TFTPD32 Treesize Pro UltraVNC ViewCHM Vista Recovery System (New for #42 DVD Edition) WCPUID Western Digital Drive Diagnostics 5 Windows File Explorer WinRAR ** From HAWKPE-CHANGES ************************************************ 4-Jan-09 - Changes to HAWKPE-42 from HAWKPE-41: ** Updated BartPE/WinPE w/ the latest McAfee, AdAware, and ClamWin defs, somewhere around 29-Dec to 4-Jan. Removed Norton Security Scan bec the current one needs some custom programming, before it can be restored to the collection. Hopefully, next time out. ** Added the Vista Recovery System to the DVD edition. ** Replaced Ghost 8 executables w/ Ghost 11 executables. Ghost 11 is probably the last cmd-line based Ghost (from 2007) that can make Vista NTFS partitions. ** Have changed the archiver to 7-Zip from WinRAR, for a free archiver solution that even newbies can obtain. Get the utility from 7-Zip. ******************************** Notes ******************************** It appears that BTS Driver Mass Storage Pack, while part of the system, wasn't working at all. I was trying to add additional BTS drivers when this was encountered. As always, I got feedback from HawkPE users, which made me curious and here we are. Had hoped to add other things to this update, but there was no time to evaluate anything beyond the Vista Recovery System. This is the official Microsoft Vista recovery tool, for doing basic repairs of broken Vista installations. I haven't had the opportunity to use this from the disc, but I have used it directly from Vista systems using [F5] at boot time. When you launch the 'Vista Recovery System' menu pick, you will see a prompt: 'Press any key to boot from CD or DVD'. Press a key to actually launch the system, otherwise just like a Windows boot CD/DVD, it will launch the OS on the hard drive. C'ya next time. :-- The Hawk --: ================================================== ======== 4-Jan-09 == PS: Download *ALL* components in order to use HAWKPE.... 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