miniPE²-XT v2k5.09.03

This CD is meant to "autoboot" meaning that when the CD is placed in the tray, and your computer is rebooted or turned off/on, the system will boot to the OS located on the CD. You may have to change some BIOS settings if your computer does not look to the CD before the HD for system booting. You may also have to press a key during boot to bring up a menu to choose your boot device.

Note: My philosophy is that this is mainly a Rescue CD, and not a replacement Operating System. As such, some apps will almost certainly not be updated as they perform well in this environment, and updating will only serve to add bloat and therefore decrease CD space for additional apps. Examples include, but are not limited to Nero & WinZIP. Additionally, the menu system is purposefully not alphabetized - it is highly customized, and in the order I want it.

Here are some general guidelines regarding miniPE²-XT
More to come as I think of them...

• requires a minimum of 128MB to run a minimal amount of apps. The more RAM you have, the greater likelihood that all apps will work correctly. I have 512MB on an old Dell PIII 500mHz and all apps work. If an app doesn't work, there's a good chance you don't have a enough memory.
  
• Some apps will simply not work exactly as they do in regular Windows. Just accept it - it is a consequence of PE, which is NOT a replacement operating system.
  
• Colors look bad on screen? - this is usually due to onboard graphics, often Intel Extreme Onboard Graphics. There is no fix Crying or Very sad.
  
• One of these days, I'll get around to writing a tutorial on how to update the AV definitions. It's not that difficult for "power" users, but may be a little daunting for those with limited experience.

Coming soon...

• "'Such-and-such' app comes up as unregistered" - my guess is you are running miniPE from within Windows and not as a bootCD. To fully appreciate miniPE's power, you should boot FROM the CD - you may have to change a BIOS setting to have your computer's first boot device to be the CD drive. Alternately, some newer Dells require you to press F12 during boot to have an option menu appear that will allow you to boot from the CD.
  
• Winternals apps "greyed out" - you must select the first menu option and define where your Windows installation resides - then return to the Winternals menu and the apps will be available.

miniPE is a suite of apps that fit on a CD:

Accessories
• Hash Calculator 2.0
• Calculator
• Free-Cal 1.3
• Dead Pixel Buddy
• keyboard layout (change foreign language layout on--the-fly)

Document Viewers
• PDF Reader
• Atlantis Word Processor
• Spread32
• Editor² Text Editor
• Wordpad
• notepad

System Tools
• Avast! ScanDisk
• Dependency Walker 2.1
• Resource Hacker 3.4.0.79
• PE Resource Explorer
• Everest 2.20 Corp & Ultimate
• AIDA32 3.93
• Password Renew 1.0 RC2
• SAMInside v2.3.0.0
• Keyfinder PE
• EzPcFix
• CPU Clock
• Trout 2.0 (Trace Route)
• DiskWipe
• Unstoppable Copier
• Check Disk
• WinImage 6.10
• Disk Copy (floppy)
• ServiceView
• Unknown Devices

Registry Editors
• Avast! RegEdit
• X-setup Pro 6.6
• RegEditPE 0.2b
• RegEditPE 0.9c
• Registry File Viewer
• Registry Restore Wizard

Avast! Tools
• Avast! AntiVirus 2.0
• Avast! Registry Editor
• Avast! Registry Cleaner
• Avast! Scan Disk
• Avast! Junk File Remover
• Avast! Data Shredder
• Avast! Event Viewer
• Avast! Services/Drivers

Hard Drive Tools
• Partition Magic 8
• Treesize Pro
• DiskData
• DiskTective
• DirectorySnoopFAT32
• DirectorySnoopNTFS
• Drive Investigator
• Fix MBR
• WD Diagnostic
• DriveLook 1.0
• SectorSpyXP
• DiskScann
• PartitionInfo
• PartitonEdit
• HD Tune
• HardDriveSpeed
• PE Mount
• RAID Recontructor 2.31
• DiskExplorer-FAT 2.31
• DiskExplorer-NTFS 2.31
• GetDataBack-FAT 2.31
• GetDataBack-NTFS 2.31

Paragon HD Tools
• Paragon Hard Disk Mgr 6 (tech-RAMDrive)
• Paragon HD Manager (Pro-CD)

Winternals
• Winternals ERD Commander 2003
• Winternals Disk Commander

File Management
• PowerDesk Pro 5
• AB Commander 6.6
• ExplorerXP 1.06
• Total Commander 6.03a
• a43 File Management 2.45
• freeCommander 2004.10
• xplorer²-lite
• Windows Explorer
• ERD Explorer
• PowerDesk File Finder
• Disk Recon 1.0
• Effective File Search 3.3
• Agent Ransack
• DupFinder
• PackIt duplicate file finder
• UltraCompare 1.10

Data Recovery
• O&O Unerase 2.0
• R-Studio 2.0
• Easy Recovery Pro 6.03
• CIA UnErase 1.1
• Active@ Undelete 5.0.015
• GetDataBack-FAT 2.31
• GetDataBack-NTFS 2.31
• RecoverMyFiles 2.29
• Handy Recovery 1.0
• Winternals FileRestore
• RecoverItAllPro 3.2.3264
• FileRecovery 3.0
• FinalData Enterprise
• Restoration 2.5.14
• EnCase 4.20 Forensics
• WinHex 12.5 SR-5 Forensic Edition

Data Removal
• X-Ways Security
• Eraser 5.7
• Avast! Data Shredder
• DiskWipe
• File Shredder 1.41

File Compression
• WinRAR 3.50
• WinZIP 8.1

AntiVirus & Spyware
• Avast!BARTCD
• AntiVir Personal AntiVirus
• TrendMicro SysClean
• NOD32 VirusCleaner
• Norton AntiVirus
• McAfee AntiVirus
• Avast! VirusCleaner
• McAfee Stinger
• Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4
• Ad-Aware Pro SE 1.06r1
• a² AntiTrojan 1.5

System Backup
• Symantec Ghost 8
• Acronis True Image 8
• Drive Image 2002
• Paragon Drive Backup
• Drive SnapShot 1.35
• Fab's AutoBackup 2

ISO Apps
• Ultra ISO 7.6.2.1180 ME
• WinISO 5.3

Hex Editors
• Hex Workshop 4.23
• 010 HexEditor 2.0
• WinHex 12.5 SR-5 Forensic Edition
• UltraEdit 11.00
• XVI32 Hex Editor 2.5.1.0
• Tiny Hexer 1.0.1.18

Image Viewers
• XnView v1.74
• IrfanView 3.97
• 11View

Defraggers
• Perfect Disk 7
• VoptXP 7.21
• DefragNT 1.9
• Winternals Power Defragger
• DIRMS defragger

Internet
• Opera 8.02
• Firefox 1.06
• Flashget 1.71
• FileZilla FTP
• WS_FTP LE
• Trillian IM
• eMule
• eMule+ 1.1f
• IP-Tools
• Trace Route 2.0
• Angry IP Scanner 2.21
• PuTTY 0.54 (Telnet-SSH)
• Remote Desktop Connection
• Tight VNC Viewer
• ServiWin 1.1

CD Burning
• Nero 5.5.10.56
• Small CD Writer 1.12
• Deepburner
• Easy DVD Burner
• Sateira CD Burner

Additional Apps
• WinImage 6.10

Network
• Angry IP Scanner 2.21
• Remote Desktop Connection
• Tight VNC Viewer
• PE Network Configurator
• IP Config GUI version

Storage
• Auto RAMdisk sizer
• Adaptec ASPI verification

Additional Features
• SATA drive support for many controllers
• NIC support for many cards
• Clear RAM Drive
• Change display resolution & color bit-depth
• Change mouse characteristics
• Change date & time
• Accessibility Options
• Task Manager
• GeoShell Taskbar
• WindowBlinds 4.5

Changelog for v2k5.09.03:
fixed Intel NIC support
fixed 010 HexEditor
added AudioGrabber
added CD Info
added CD Speed
added CPU Bench
added CPU-Z
added DiskCheck
added DupFinder
added eMule+ 1.1f
added Explore2fs
added Memory Analyzer
added MemTest
added Partition Table Doctor v3
added Passmark BurnInTest
added Quick Bench
added R-Linux
added Shutdown/Reboot
added Trillian
added Visual File Info
added Win IP Config
added Windows Explorer
updated 010 HexEditor
updated A43 file mgr
updated Everest Ultimate & Corp
updated FileZilla
updated Firefox
updated Flashget
updated Opera
updated UltraISO
updated WinHex
updated WinRAR
updated X-Ways Security
removed ISOBuster
removed MicroWorld AV