Thursday, April 21, 2016

Boot Window or other OS to Flash easy

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer/Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.6.4.exe

Universal USB Installeraka UUI is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install. Upon completion, you should have a ready to run bootable USB Flash Drive with your select operating system installed. Other features include;Persistence (if available) – note that casper persistence will only work with fat16 or fat32 formatted drives.

Bootable USB Flash Drive Creation Requirements:

·   Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.6.4.exe
·   Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 or WINE to create the USB (Win 98/2K WILL NOT Work!)
·   *Fat16, Fat32, or NTFS Formatted Flash Drive. MBR partition only GPT will not work!
·   PC with a BIOS that can boot from USB
·   Your Favorite Linux ISO


Feel free to inform me of unlisted Live Linux distributions or version revisions, and I will do my best to update UUI to support them.
 

Friday, April 8, 2016

Control your Driver


http://double-driver.en.softonic.com/download
Double Driver is an excellent free driver backup app that's seriously easy to use.

Drivers are pretty boring, but backups are really important. If you ever need to reinstall Windows, you'll have to manually find and install all the missing drivers that make your hardware work - unless you use an app like Double Driver to back them up before that happens.

Double Driver is a great app - it's free, portable and, most importantly, efficient. When you open it up, hit Backup. You can then choose to scan your current system or an alternative location. Once you've scanned, Double Driver will have automatically selected non-Microsoft drivers (the ones that will be missing if you need to reinstall your system). You can obviously change this if you want to.

Once you've chosen the drivers, you can then back them up to a standard folder, .ZIP file or .EXE. If you ever need to restore your drivers, open up Double Driver and click Restore. You can then choose the backed up file and load it, restoring your drivers. Just remember that if you do reinstall Windows, keep a copy of the driver backup somewhere safe!

If there is any complaint, it's that Double Driver has no help, but as drivers are a fairly easy area to deal with this shouldn't cause you any problems.

For simple driver back-ups, you can't find any better than Double Driver.

Recent changes

New engine: faster, removed dependencies (7-zip32.dll and msvbvm60.dll)
New Command-Line Interface (CLI) application (support command and switches)
New Graphical User Interface (GUI) in all dialogs
New Device Driver Installation Wizard
Ability to back-up non-live/non-booting Windows