Utilities for DOS and Windows 
 
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  DOS Mouse drivers and tools
 
CTMOUSE19.ZIP
an extra small mouse driver from the FreeDOS project;
Homepage: http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net,


LOGI600.ZIP
Logitech mouse driver V6.00 for DOS from 1991


LOGI650.ZIP
Logitech mouse driver V6.50 for DOS from 1995


LOGI730.ZIP
Logitech mouse driver V7.30 for DOS from 1997 with CLOAKING.EXE to load it high


MOUSE602.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V6.02 for DOS from 1987 (the oldest I have found - who has an older one from Microsoft?), needs fewer than 10K


MOUSE610.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V6.10 for DOS from 1987, needs fewer than 10K


MOUSE624.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V6.24 for DOS from 1988, needs about 10K


MOUSE704.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V7.04 for DOS, needs 17K, supports mouse pointer acceleration 


MOUSE820.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V8.20 for DOS, needs >20K, supports Mouse within the DOS window of Win31


PP111.ZIP
Mouse driver extension for soft mousepointer instead mouse-rectangle in DOS-Textmode (Shareware) 


MRESET.ZIP
Mouse Reset; can help when the mousepointer hangs

 

 
  DOS Disk- and File Tools, CD-ROM-Drivers
 
BOOTANY.ZIP
Old boot-manager from 1984, makes a primary partition valid, the remaining invalid; it's completely whithin the MBR; only for users who know what they do... 


CDROM.ZIP
Universal ATAPI CD ROM driver from Benq; needs only 5K


ODD CDROM Driver
SATA CD ROM driver


CHANGE.ZIP
Search + replace of strings in any files; useful to modify e.g. a drive letter or a path within a lot of batch-files


BIGFILE.ZIP
Creates a large file with desired size; useful to force other files to the end of the disk, e.g. container files of compressed drives and temporary fill of drives >2GB to fix problems with install-software on very large drives with more than 2GB free space

DATEFILE.ZIP (10K)
Renames files give per pipe to the current date; e.g.
echo TODAY.ZIP | datefile
gives on 1st Feb. 1999 a 19990201.ZIP
DOSLFN.ZIP (118K)
TSR with INT 21h LFN Extensions; The best LFN tools for DOS; works with FAT32; write access on floppies only;
Using PKZIP for DOS V2.50 you you can put files with their LFNs to ZIP files in pure DOS


DSKIMG11.ZIP
Creates a selfextracting image of a floppy disk


FINDER.ZIP
Advanced search + replace tool; a bit hard to use but powerful


FIRM.ZIP
reads and writes 1:1 floppy images; great for creating bootable CDs using floppy emulation


HTMS0208.ZIP
Perfect HTML to ASC conversion


KillDisk (HTML)
Deletes a drive completely from sector zero to the end


PRESZ134.ZIP
Partitions-Resizer, works fine with drives >8GB too; Freeware!


RANISH (HTML)
Ranish Partition Manager; Great replacement for FDISK


TOSHV218.ZIP
Toshiba CD-ROM dirver, needs 6K, supports spindown-timing 


TPPATCH.ZIP
Fixes the Runtime Error 200 by patching the EXE file. If the EXE is compressed with PKLITE, LZEXE or whatever it must be expanded before, e.g. with COMPBUST, an universal EXE expander (works in pure DOS only, crashes in DOS-Box)


VC400SW.ZIP
Volkov-Commander V4.00; NC-Clone, very small and fast, perfect NC-look


VC401SW.ZIP
Volkov-Commander V4.01


VCPATCH.ZIP
Patch for Volkov-Commander V4.00 to disable the second confirmations on delete


Volkov Commander
Latest Version the VC; LFN in Win95's DOS-Box, archives as directory 
Here are good fonts for the DOS-Box to give the VC a perfect DOS-Look: https://www.uwe-sieber.de/dosfon_e.html


VIEW.ZIP
Great  Viewer for a lot of text formats, incl. Word97


WIPEFILE.ZIP
Overwrites files; works in the DOS-Box of Win95 too - other tools doens't really overwrite anything because of too much optimazion of the Windows filecache


WIPEFREE.ZIP
Wipes the free areas of a logical drive; works with drive of each size; overwrites up to 2000 Gigabytes (should be enough for the next years...)

 

 
  DOS Memory, Video, Misc
 
430HX.ZIP
Info-tool for Intel's 430HX chipset


5IN1.ZIP
5in1 is a small TSR program with 5 functions: Screensaver, Hotkey for ' *. * ', repeat function for the ' Insert' key, prevents that the keyboard buffer fills with PgUp/PgDn, hard aborting of the current application with Ctrl+Alt+Ins; German Freeware


67HZCT.ZIP
Gives you 67Hz refreshrate in the standard VGA mode 12h (640x480x16 colours) on all VGA cards; German Freeware


CFG_ECHO.ZIP
ECHO command for CONFIG.SYS with support of ANSI Escape sequeces


CONFIGX.ZIP
device driver that lets you issue commands such as PAUSE or CLS early in the boot process


EMM286.ZIP
EMS emulator without V86 mode but it doesn't support DMA transfers

FIX8x14.ZIP
Installs an 8x14 font because many graphics cards vendors removed this font from their products for some time and a lot of software relies an that font. Current cards usally have a larger BIOS that contain the 8x14 font again.


GETXMS.ZIP
Allocates an XMS block temporarely


HIRAM.ZIP
Hardware UMBs for 386 and 486 computers


umm03.zip
Use existing RAM in upper memory as UMB


INFORMER.ZIP
An excellent system information tool; Freeware;


MAXLLF.ZIP
Low Level formatter from Maxtor; Old version that works with foreign drives too


MEMPATCH.ZIP
Memory and file editor (German)
Sources are available too: MEMP_SRC.ZIP


MEMTEST.HTML
Very good RAM-test; I found that this one is the most reliable RAM-tester (hint: let it run overnight! I had a bad SDRAM module with errors in 17th and 18th pass...) New since August 2002: V2.00 runs under Windows!


MEMTEST86 (HTML)
Another great memory tester; writes a bootable disk that has no filesystem, so don't wonder if the disk appears unreadable...

NSSI (HTML)
Navrátil Software System Information; Good system information tool; Freeware

PCISET.ZIP
Small tools to change PCI registers


RDOSUMB.ZIP
Hardware UMBs for 386 and 486 computers


SYNCTIME.ZIP
Sets the DOS-clock to the time of the CMOS-clock; some programs stops the DOS-clock while they are running, after you end such a program you should start SYNCTIME . 


UMBOPTI.ZIP
UMB-driver from the c't magazine for Opti-492 und Opti-495 


UMBSIS.ZIP
UMB-driver from the c't magazine for SIS-460, 461 and 471 


UNIRFRSH.ZIP or  VBEHZ.ZIP
Set the refreshrates for VESA graphicmodes on cards with VESA 3.0 BIOS


URAM.ZIP
Hardware UMBs for 386 and 486 computers


WAIT.ZIP
WAIT.COM waits n seconds - thats all


WINTEST.ZIP
Gives an ERRORLEVEL 1 if started under Windows


XMSDSK.ZIP
Perfect replacement for RAMDRIVE.SYS; no 32MB limit;

 

 
  For Windows 9x
 
BinHexDez.ZIP
Small calculator for decimal / hexadecimal / binary conversion


BLA.ZIP
Bootlog-Analyzer; gives a better view of the BOOTLOG.TXT


DISKSPED.ZIP
Small but good benchmark for HD speed and CPU load; program for textmode


HidRun.ZIP
Starts a program hidden

MB Probe (HTML)
Small and good motherboard monitor - no updates since 2002


NetDrive.ZIP
Shows the Windows-Dialog 'Connect Networkdrive' or 'Disconnect Networkdrive', when it's started with the commandline /disconnect. Needs VB4-32 Runtimes


PowerOff.ZIP
A small program to schedule a shutdown/reboot/logoff/poweroff at a certain time.


PS2RATE.ZIP
PS/2 mouse sampling rate changer for windows 95/98 (v0.4); makes the mousepointer move smoother;
I found a NT4 version too: PS2R_NT.ZIP; works with one special version of I8042PRT.SYS only


UPX (HTML)
Ultimate Packer for eXecutables; Freeware-EXE-Packer incl. DOS- and Windows EXE files


VB40032.EXE
Visual Basic 4.0 32bit Runtimes


ZE11.ZIP
ZIP Eject; ejects ZIP disks and other removable media by a click on a systray icon

 


last change: 14th Sept. 2005

Uwe Sieber

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