View Full Version : A swiss army knife for Windows repair?
reprobus
January 3rd, 2009, 05:27 PM
If you where going to put an assortment of tools for windows repair on a thumb drive then what would you include?
chamber
January 3rd, 2009, 10:00 PM
Hijackthis, spybot, ComboFix, CCleaner, PAVARK, OTMoveIt.
Lets face it, most of windows problems are more than likely going to be virus related.
These should take care of most things. I would also bring a Live CD to show them what they're missing out on.
EDIT///
I wouldn't recommend using any of these without knowing exactly what they do though, ComboFix especially can severely mess up a computer if you do the wrong thing.
Battie
January 3rd, 2009, 10:52 PM
-Autoruns to survey the damage.
-Malwarebyte's AntiMalware to perform initial cleanup.
-Autoruns again, with Process Explorer and maybe Procmon to find sneakier nasties.
-Killbox if something refuses to delete.
-CCleaner to do a more general cleanup.
cabbiinc
January 3rd, 2009, 11:43 PM
Something to recover user passwords in Vista.
Skripka
January 3rd, 2009, 11:50 PM
Installers for ALL your drivers that you need.
cabbiinc
January 4th, 2009, 01:44 AM
Possibly something from here http://www.bootdisk.com/
EnGorDiaz
January 4th, 2009, 10:48 AM
Hijackthis, spybot, ComboFix, CCleaner, PAVARK, OTMoveIt.
Lets face it, most of windows problems are more than likely going to be virus related.
These should take care of most things. I would also bring a Live CD to show them what they're missing out on.
EDIT///
I wouldn't recommend using any of these without knowing exactly what they do though, ComboFix especially can severely mess up a computer if you do the wrong thing.
no most windows problems are caused by incorect dependancy structuring in system works when programs write exceptions and use the same thing
example you run photoshop
and you run some other photo app
they might use the same file photoshop will use one and the other will and access the same file then causing a has error output
then microsoft will blame the company themselves for the faulty software as they decided the price for both suits
cabbiinc
January 4th, 2009, 03:54 PM
I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, http://portableapps.com/
If you can get yourself onto the net, everything else you can get from there.
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