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ForumsThe Computer Repair Utility Kit is a combination of all of Technibbles Repair Tools of the Week up to date in one easy pack. The Computer Repair Utility Kit allows you to run all of the repair tools from your portable drive (eg. USB Flash Drive, External Hard Drive, IPod etc.) and comes with an easy to use, right-click menu. A must in any technicians kit.
You can also add your own utilities to the menu and make it so it autoruns when you insert your portable media into the system.
If you are just starting out as a techie and combine this free tool with our Computer Business Kit. You’ll have everything you need to get started.
The Computer Repair Utility Kit Comes with the following applications:
- Dial-a-fix - Fixes many common issues with Internet Explorer and Windows itself
- Autoruns - Shows everything that is set to autorun on a system
- Process Explorer - Shows current running processes in great detail
- Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder - Finds the CDKey/Serial for commonly known software (XP, Office etc..)
- RawCopy - Copy’s contents of one drive to another. Useful when there are corruptions
- Tweak UI - Tweak Windows XPs settings
- SoftPerfect Network Scanner - Network Scanner
- Unlocker - Unlocks files that are locked (eg. files that cannot be moved, deleted, copied etc.)
- Unstoppable Copier - Copy’s files from one location to another, if it hits a locked/corrupt file it will keep on going
- Pocket Killbox - Kill and delete files which are locked. Has a “delete on reboot” option. Useful for removing viruses and malware
- CalmWin Portable Antivirus - A very good, portable antivirus
- Norton Removal Tool - Removes Norton products
- NetStumbler - Searches for Wireless networks with some advanced options
- Double Driver - Backs up your drivers. Handy to use before a format
- CPU-Z - Provides information about your hardware such as CPU speed and voltages
- WirelessKeyView - Shows the current wireless network passwords on the system in plain text
- TreeSize Free - Shows you how much space each folder on a system is taking up
- DriveImage XML - Hard drive imaging program
- PC-Decrapifier - Removes the junk files that mainstream computer manufacturers install on new computers
- Belarc Advisor - Creates a detailed report on a system
- Restoration - Recover accidentally deleted files
- Ethereal - Network packet analyzer
- VistaTweaker - Tweaks Windows Vistas settings
- JkDefrag GUI - An advanced defragging tool
- Unknown Device Identifier - Identifies entries in Device Manager that come up as “Unknown Device”
- GSpot - Provides information about a file such as what codec it was encoded in. Handy for when you cant play a video or audio file because you don’t have the right codec
- Revo Uninstaller - A powerful uninstaller tool
- Runscanner - Malware scanner and removal tool
- PageDefrag - Allows you to defragment the Windows Pagefile (which is typically locked)
- DBXtract - Extracts single emails out of Outlook Expresses .dbx databases
- Hijack This - Malware scanner and removal tool
- ATF Cleaner - Cleans out Windows temp files and browser temp files (IE, Firefox and Opera)
- LSP Fix - Winsock repair utility. Useful for when malware damage is preventing a computer from going online
- AppSnap - Downloads, installs and updates freeware software
- MozBackup - Backs up Firefox and Thunderbird settings and files
- System Information - Displays very details information about the system
To start the toolkit. Extract the zip file to your portable media and run “Launcher.exe”.
Download:
Computer Repair Utility Kit.zip -44mb
[notice]Due to the “hacking” nature of many of these programs (eg. editing registries, showing passwords, viewing serials etc..) certain antivirus software will report some tools included in this kit as “potentially unsafe” or as viruses. The kit has been scanned with a variety of antiviruses by our members and is reported as clean from any real viruses.[/notice]
Nice tool, added to my kit
I wonder where you got this idea Bryce?
Special Love goes out to gunslinger for recommending the menu program PStart which we are using in this kit.
@gunslinger…here perhaps?
http://dailycupoftech.com/usb-drive-systems/3/
Hey Bryce, I tried to download the zip file and my Sonicwall Firewall said this file was a virus “Name: Autoit.AX (Trojan)”
I’m sure you didn’t do this, but is it somewhere it could have one piggybacked on it?
Jason, which file did it say it was attached to? Or was the zip itself? AVG isn’t reporting anything.
This is what my sonicwall reports when when I try to click “Download: Computer Repair Utility Kit.zip 44mb”
“This request is blocked by the SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus Service. Name: Autoit.AX (Trojan)”
This is the address it sends me too.. “http://www.anime-forums.com/misc/Computer%20Repair%20Utility%20Kit.zip”
Actually Steve I introduced Bryce and many others to this idea. Its not my own idea but I have been running my apps kit this way for almost 3 years now. Thanks for the ” Special Love” Bryce, its just nice to have a little credit now and then. I always recommend your site to my tech friends.
I am behind a SonicWall firewall and we do have AV setup and I got nothing here. I am going to run a scan on it here and then some other checks I suggest everyone else do so as well so we can get a varity of results. I think that it is one of the tools as I believe mentioned in one of the tools it is sometimes recognized as a virus even though it is not. I think we should all check our copies to verify anyhow besides this hang up for Jason it is a great little kit.
I checked with AVG again. Im not getting anything. I assuming Jason got a false negative. Since many of these tools have the ability to edit registries, processes and are almost hacking tools. Perhaps thats what set off his AV?
Is anyone able to host a mirror?
I downloaded from another network and it went fine. I’ll look into it later, but it does seem to be clean. BTW, This looks like something I’ll use alot. Thanks for all the work you guys do on here, it us techie’s lives alot easier.
Jason
Hi guys,
http://www.mcdonalds.net.au/ComputerRepairUtilityKit.zip
I am uploading this file right now you will be able to download from this link and not wait for 2 hours
Graeme, may I post that link next to the other link?
I can’t download the file from either mirror :\ It gets to 99% and then bombs out.
On another note - do you run anime-forums then bryce?
Simon, I just test downloaded it from Graemes mirror and extracted it without any problems. Perhaps a firewall or AV?
And yes, I also own Anime-forums.com
Yeah nevermind, I realised NOD32 was silently blocking viruses. It seems it found one in “keyfinder.exe”, but I guess it’s only triggered by the nature of the file rather than it being a virus.
Bryce You can post the link beside the other one thats no issue at all
I use nod32 and have had no viruses detected in the zip file .
I have selected the option to “detect potentially unsafe applications” from within NOD32, which is usually disabled by default.
Wow, what a great idea! Thanks Bryce!
Magic Jellybean Keyfinder will be identified as a virus in MANY anti-virus programs… It’s not a real virus, it’s just considered malware by these companies as it could lead to mischievious use.
And, this is an awesome compilation of tools! I was beginning to start my own pocket toolbox and presto! the good people at Technibble have made one for me!
Everest Free edition.
All the information you ever want to know about your machine.
SIW (included in the kit) is far superior to Everest and thus Everest wasnt included.
http://www.gtopala.com/
Yeah right. Awesome. I better look harder at all the toys
Instead of Magic Jellybean Keyfinder, what about this: http://www.jalapenosoftware.com/Demo.htm
Ecio, although I do support paid software if its good, only free things are going to included in this kit.
Bryce.. ¡¡te felicito, muchas gracias!!
Thanks for putting this together, I’ve been thinking of doing a project like this for years, glad somebody else took the initiative.
FYI - there’s a typo in your list of apps - it says “Calm” rather than “Clam.”
Thanks again for building this.
Sorry guys mirror 2 Has gone down some time in the morning due to a hard drive that failed in the web server. This server was not using raid either
The system is being rebuilt and data will be restored from back ups. It should be back online some time tonight.
No need to apologise Graeme. You know we love you for hosting it at all
haha thanks Bryce. Web server is back online, mirror 2 will now work
Greetings. I’m running Vista Home Premium and cannot download the repair utility kit. Any recommenedations ? Stalled ouit after about 17%. Help
Thanks for the download a great little set up.
P.S. I’ve also downloaded the Computer Business kit and the 2 together are worth the price
keep up all the good work quality honest free advice is hard to come by
There is a virus on this comp repair kit, its a windows validation trojan, AND IM PISSED OFF THAT NOW I HAVE TO GET THE TROGAN OFF THE COMPUTER! There needs to be more discussion on this program!
Can anyone confirm jake’s finding? is it a real virus?
Pete, its a double negative. These applications are DESIGNED to edit registries, view serial numbers, make changes to the system etc..
Some antivirus products detect some of these tools as viruses because certain viruses do similar things.
Many of these tools are now outdated or will not work with Vista. I am really excited to see a collection such as this but would love to se an updated edition.