DOS Utility programs

Here is the list of DOS utility programs.

Utilities

• Cute Mouse Driver v2.1 beta 4 Mouse driver with wheel support for both AT and PS/2 mice; uses only 3K (!) of memory
• BenQ (Acer) CDROM driver v2.14 Uses only 5K and works with many IDE CDROM drives
• SHSUCDX v3.03E MSCDEX replacement ; uses only 11K resident ; can be unloaded. Now part of SHSUCD, a suite of programs dealing with the CD-ROM. Older versions here
• UMBPCI V3.80 Free hardware UMB driver (only 240 bytes) for DOS/Win9x - replaces EMM386.EXE
• Srdisk v2.09c dynamically ReSizeable RAMDisk for FreeDOS (and other DOSes) able to use over 32M of XMS and EMS memory. GPL
• XMSDSK.EXE v1.9i Freeware resizable ramdisk;can be installed/uninstalled from the command line.

• Partition Resizer v1.34 Resize your FAT16/FAT32 partitions safely. Freeware
• Free FDISK v1.3.1 GNU hard disk partitioning utility. Supports FAT16/FAT32 and non DOS partitions
• Active @ KillDisk Destroy all data on hard and removable drives without possibility of future recovery
• XOSL 1.1.5 Free graphical boot manager to select what OS to run on startup

• TestDisk v6.11.3 Tool to check and undelete hard disk partitions. Supports FAT16/FAT32, ext2FS, NTFS and more
• PhotoRec v6.11.3 file data recovery software designed to recover lost files from Hard Disks and CDRom
• Savepart v3.80 save entire or occupied portion of a hard drive partition (FAT16/32,ext2,ext3,NTFS) into a file for easy backup and restoration
• Image v2.41 Disk image backup and restore program. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Shareware
• Ranish Partition Manager v2.44 powerful hard disk partitioning tool and can create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions.
• NTFS Reader for DOS freeware tool to read NTFS partitions from DOS

• Palmsys v1.21 3K Driver for parallel port Iomega ZIP drive; works on XTs and on 286 CPUs as well
• SDWRGMPD v1.1 DOS driver for MS "Win9x only" SideWinder digital GamePad
• Duse v4.9 From Pocketec, are USB DOS drivers for USB hard disks, CDROM drives and other USB storage devices like Zip drives
• SPEEDZTER 2.5 From DAT Optic, are Firewire/IEEE 1394 DOS drivers for their external Speedzter 2.5" Firewire hard drives

• BLACKOUT Gives DOS a graphic startup screen like Win9x. Can use your own GIF file
• Real DOS mode patch for Win Me v1.3 A patch to enable WinMe users to boot to plain DOS
• 98lite 4.5 Removes Internet Explorer from Win9x/Me ; can install the faster Win95 GUI in Win98/Me
• Bootdisk v1.0a my batch file to create a better Win95/98 boot disk using third-party utilities. Check the README.HTM

• LFN Tools v1.79 DOS commands that can handle long filenames in plain DOS. Supports FAT32
• DOSLFN 0.40e TSR to provide long filename API in plain DOS. Only 12K resident. Older versions here
• LTOOLS v6.12 set of DOS command line tools to read and write to Linux ext2/3 and ReiserFS filesystems (the DOS opposite of Linux MTOOLS)

• Scitech Univbe 6.7 and Display Doctor 6.53 enchanced VESA drivers for a variety of video cards. Now freeware.
• VBEHz v2.23 Sets user-defined refresh rates on video cards with VBE 3.0+ for DOS progs using VESA video modes
• UniRefresh v1.42 universal dos refresh rate utility for VESA 3.0+ video cards
• Vmode 1.1 switch between various text modes (and even graphics modes) from DOS prompt

• CD Recording Utilities v4.0g These programs are a set of CD-R/CD-RW applications for DOS.
• DOSCDROAST beta3 suite of programs allows you to use IDE (and now USB and Firewire) CD-RW burners to burn CDROMS in plain DOS.
• Cdrtools v2.01 DOS port of CDrTools (formerly cdrecord) allows you to burn CD with your CD-RW drive.
• DVD4DOS Beta 1 test release software to play DVD with Dolby AC3 sound. Currently restricted to 1 minute (non-realtime) playback

• PC-CONFIG 9.33 Detailed system information/benchmark tool. Freeware, but no further development
• NSSI v0.60.32 freeware system information tool
• HWiNFO v5.30 system information utility designed for detection of hardware. shareware
• ClamAV 0.95.2 Port of ClamAV for DOS, antivirus software (look for clamavx.zip and clamavs (source))

• ATXOff v1.3 Turn off your ATX computer system (similar to Win9x shutdown).
• Shutdown v1.2 From Blacklight, a small utility to either reboot your computer, or turn off the power (ATX systems only)

• 4DOS v8.00 updated opensource version of the powerful command line interpreter (COMMAND.COM replacement) for DOS by JP Software
• DOSED v5.2 Freeware DOSKEY-like program but with filename completion like Linux's Bash shell
• FileC v2.0 Autocompletes filenames at command prompt ; support Win9x LFN in DOS box
• ACD v3.05 Change to another directory on any drive quickly. Has Win9x LFN support

• TDel v2.68 Powerful freeware replacement for the DEL (delete) command
• XXCOPY 2.93.1 powerful replacement XCOPY with many features. Free for personal use
• Powercopy v1.3 Shareware parallel-port transfer program between two PCs with either DOS,Win3.x,Win9x or WinNT/2000/XP installed

• TextTools R6 Freeware programs for processing text tables and general text filtering
• TSFLTC R2.2 A set of additional text file filters from Prof. Timo Salmi.
• Slowdown v3.1 Slows down a fast computer so you can run older programs, or as a troubleshooting aid.

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