Booting

AnyhwhereTS is a completely free thin client solution for Windows. It converts PCs to thin clients and will allow you to customize and deploy these thin clients completely from within a Windows environment. In less than 5 minutes you will be able to setup a complete thin clients solution on your...

DiskCryptor is the only truly free solution, provided under GNU General Public License (GPLv3), which offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition. The main criteria for open-source software is the availability of its source code under one of the open source licenses....

Many developers provide ISO images of their release for free download, especially in the antivirus and security niche but also in utility and Linux. An antivirus ISO image can for instance be used to scan a PC by booting from that burned disk which may be the only possible way depending on the...


Platforms: Windows

The AWIECO WakeOnLAN add-in for Windows Home Server 2011 and Small Business Server 2011 Essentials is a free and useful add-in, which has the ability to remotely turn on a computer. It enables the Server to start up every computer attached to your network. You can also power off a computer out of...


Platforms: Windows

BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector on the hard disk. Suite of three utilities BootSave, BootRest and BootChk. Protects against damage to the partition table or boot sector done by rogue programs, viruses or accidents with tools like Norton NU. The BootSave suite will work under DOS,...


Platforms: Windows, MS-DOS

The power to speed up your computer's startup process! Can you learn another language in the time it takes for your machine to boot? Do you turn on your PC when you go to bed, so it's finished booting by the time you get home from work the next day? When Windows loads it's Startup file, it...


Platforms: Windows

AppleJack is a tool to make it easy to troubleshoot your Mac when no other startup disk is available to you. The script gives you an interactive menu-driven environment for basic disk check/repair, permissions repair, .plist validation, cache cleanup, and swap file removal. You can do basic...


Platforms: Mac

Did you know that there's a quasi-hidden feature in Snow Leopard that will make your Macintosh run faster across the board at the expense of some backward compatibility? Or are you an Xserve or Mac OS X Server user that has to revert to the older kernel in order to use older software?...


Platforms: Mac

UFFS is an ultra low cost flash file system for embedded system. UFFS is a NAND flash file system designed for embedded system, it performs some unique and advanced features: Low cost: For NAND flash with 512 page size: NAND flash | Total Blocks | Buffers/Caches | Total RAM cost 128M | 8192 |...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, C/C++, BSD Solaris

ARAnyM is a software virtual machine (similar to VirtualBox or Bochs) designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and Linux-m68k) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix...


Platforms: *nix

Clever Startup Manager Free - lightweight Windows startup accelerator, disables any startup programs that run automatically when your operating system loads and fully controls startup by selecting the programs to be launched. It lists all the startup items so that you can choose to permanently...


Platforms: Windows

Calculate Linux is a Russian Gentoo-based Linux distribution and Live DVD designed to be easy to use, install and update on any number of computers. Two editions are available: Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD) and Calculate Directory Server (CDS). Calculate Directory Server is the free operating...


Platforms: *nix

LessLinux is a distribution that is aimed to be light, embeddable, simple, stupid. It is not based on any existing distribution and is currently solely intended to be used as a live distribution, started from CD, USB or via PXE. Why? I use LessLinux as a test field for concepts and ideas that I...


Platforms: *nix

Curious as to what we're developing for Tritech Service System 2.1? Here's a brief explanation of what we're looking at doing for the next minor release. TSS has been using a huge initramfs package to boot ever since its inception, and that's fine for a relatively small system, but the TSS...


Platforms: *nix

LEAF Bering-uClibc is available for download as a single-floppy-based firewall or as an ISO-image. Additionally booting from HD, CF or an USB device is supported. The floppy image supports dhcp, ppp and pppoe connections out of the box and fits for a SOHO network demanding a stable and secure...


Platforms: *nix

ARAnyM is a software virtual machine (similar to VirtualBox or Bochs) designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and Linux-m68k) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix...


Platforms: *nix

Injector is a one floppy Linux system which supports a -wide- range of filesystems. That means, you can access 25 filesystems with full write support, just by booting this floppy linux. Injector is able to read/write/backup files from an IDE or SCSI drive with the common partition types, like:...


Platforms: *nix

Alcolix is a minimal linux distribution built on a custom linux 2.4-kernel and sporting a hybrid of the most minimalistic yet usable versions of common unix-environment commandline tools. The goal is to make it easily usable for people able to use linux yet have it boot off only a minimal number...


Platforms: *nix

Many programs will load up automatically when you boot your PC, which could be a burden to your system. PCBooster Free Startup Manager will help you permanently prevent the autorun of TSR (Terminate-and-Stay-Resident) programs and other background programs. It brings you great convenience using...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7

AOMEI Backupper Standard is a free and easy-to-use backup software for Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP (all editions, both 32/64bit). It supports system/hard disk/partition/files/folders backup, restore and clone as well as provides schedule, incremental,...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 7, Other