jemson said:As a partition magic alternative, I like the Gparted live CD. Gpartedgparted is also on SystemRescueCD. This also has test-disk (for partition recovery) and other useful tools.IZarc as an easy to use Winzip / Winrar replacement (it has a big button mode that looks just like Winzip)Some people complain about the interface to 7-Zip, but PeaZip is another free/open alternative that supports the same formats (and has "big buttons").Xnview and/or Irfanview to replace Acdsee or CompupicI love using GQview on Linux. I found out there's a windows port, but haven't yet tried it. imgSeek and Imgv are other cross-platform F/OSS apps in this category.

MWAV is a nice, free, AV scanner (based on Kaspersky). It doesn't install, just decompresses and runs. You have to pay if you want it to clean stuff, but if you aren't sure if a system is clean after using other tools it's a nice way to double check yourself. Or prove to someone that their AV software isn't working.

CounterSpy is a great Spyware removal tool. It runs resident so stops most stuff before it even gets in. It's got a 15 day trial, after that it's $20 for one year of updates. If you have customers who can't keep their systems clean, this may be what you want (it's faster, cheaper and rated higher than SpySweeper)

CopyWipe is freeware. Great for drive duplicating and secure wiping. The copy process will offer to skip errors too, so if you have a drive with some bad sectors this may be able to copy it for you.

sc0rpio said:I replaced Windows Defender with Spyware Terminator.

I was looking at the reviews on download.com - a lot of people are complaining that this installs a toolbar in IE that is hard to get rid of. I've never heard of this program so have no idea how true this may be.

minidrag said:sc0rpio said:I replaced Windows Defender with Spyware Terminator.

I was looking at the reviews on download.com - a lot of people are complaining that this installs a toolbar in IE that is hard to get rid of. I've never heard of this program so have no idea how true this may be.
I was able to uninstall the Crawler Toolbar.

Drive Snaphot. Free drive images for 30 days and unlimited viewing of backed up images. Does a shadow copy so you can image your drive from within windows. Great tool when added to UBCD.

I started to categorize things in the Quick Summary by license and application. It currently only has the anti-spyware & anti-virus on UBCD4win & lacks descriptions, but this can help organize our efforts.

I had forgotten to list App Killer. It can be useful at times.

Some soft of app killer would be handy to have though.

Forgot to add an online virus scanner. Eset now has an online version of NOD32 to scan and remove problems.

Windows Updates and Patching Systems: AutoPatcher - Donationware. allows techs to download and install all Windows security updates on target systems without needing an Internet connection, plus it's much more automated, require maybe one or two reboots at most.
Killed by MS today. AP is no more

Just wanted to add that Comodo.com now has free** Firewall, Antivirus, and Antimalware products available...some are XP only now, with Vista support to be added soon

Firewall
Antivirus
Anti-Malware

**for personal use - make sure your client installs these after you leave the building!

Also wanted to add a few more websites that I've learned a lot from: Unattended Windows XP Introduction, and AppDeploy.com - for learning how to do silent/automatic program installations., and Switchless Installer Releases - (useful repackaged installers).