Program

Description

Date

Dirmagic

A tiny DOS program which can do just about everything that Windows File Manager can do. Still useful today. On at least 3 occasions a year, it is the right tool for the job. The only limitation I've found on modern systems (2005) is it crashes when homed to a directory with more than a 1000 files.

Pingstat

Network diagnostic tool. Continuously pings up to 10 sites and provides statistics on dropped packets, outages and access times. Win9x/NT/2000/XP. This one's still a beta there's a lot more I will add later.

Readtest

Read all files in a folder or disk to confirm there are no read errors. I use it to read every block of every file on a burned CD when I need assurance that the CD is perfect. Quicker than copying all files off the CD and needs 0 disk space.

Sysstat

Very fast very small program to collect hardware specs (OS, Processor, RAM, Available RAM). I use it inside NT logon scripts to keep and up-to-date inventory.