Trinity Rescue Kit 3.4

[iTpHo3NiX]

Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. Since version 3.4 it has an easy to use scrollable text menu that allows anyone who masters a keyboard and some English to perform maintenance and repair on a computer, ranging from password resetting over disk cleanup to virus scanning

Here 's a sumup of some of the most important features, new and old:

-easily reset windows passwords with the improved winpass tool
-simple and easy menu interface
-5 different virusscan products integrated in a single uniform commandline with online update capability
-full ntfs write support thanks to ntfs-3g
-winclean, a utility that cleans up all sorts of unnecessary temporary files on your computer.
-clone computers over the network via multicast.
-wide range of hardware support (kernel 2.6.35 )
-contributed backup utility called "pi", to automate local machine backups
-easy script to find and mount all local filesystems
-self update capability to include and update all virusscanners + local changes you made to TRK.
-full proxyserver support.
-run a samba fileserver (windows like filesharing)
-run a ssh server
-recovery and undeletion of files with utilities and procedures
-recovery of lost partitions
-evacuation of dying disks
-full read/write and rpm support
-UTF-8 international character support (select keyboard language from the scrollable textmenu at startup)
-2 rootkit detection uitilities
-most software updated to recent versions
-literally thousands of changes and bugfixes since version 3.3
-elaborated documentation, including manpages for all commands (also TRK 's own)

Documentation (use left navi to go into detail, also has man pages and help on the disk):
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?content=GETTING_STARTED_WITH_TRK&front_id=12&lang=en&locale=en

Download:
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?content=TRINITY_RESCUE_KIT_DOWNLOAD&front_id=12&lang=en&locale=en

Hope you enjoy! As the go to tech guy with family, friends, co-workers, thus really is an essential tool

[frog]

Definitely an essential toolset.

Two other good toolsets like this are:
Hiren's BootCD
Ultimate bootcd

I work at a small computer repair shop three days a week and these three toolsets I use almost everyday at work. When hiren's offline password changer won't work, TRK will do it. So that's really the only reason I use TRK. Windows password removal; 20 bucks a pop all day, erry day.

[iTpHo3NiX]

Definitely an essential toolset.

Two other good toolsets like this are:
Hiren's BootCD
Ultimate bootcd

I work at a small computer repair shop three days a week and these three toolsets I use almost everyday at work. When hiren's offline password changer won't work, TRK will do it. So that's really the only reason I use TRK. Windows password removal; 20 bucks a pop all day, erry day.

Yeah TRK's winpass tool is great. Also if you work as a network admin TRK is a great free replacement for proprietary software such as ghost or acronis when it comes to imaging, and to be able to network boot TRK in that kind of an environment is great. I also use GeekSquads MRI disk for hard drive and memory testing. There was a long time ago when I tried making my own WinPE/Linux bootdisk but I gave up a long time ago when disks such as TRK, hirens and UBCD are around. I think I have versions of hirens and UBCD with the proprietary software cracked, May have to see if I can locate them to upload. But I had seen a post of a proprietary password remover which prompted me to post this. Has been such an invaluable tool

[frog]

Hell yea, I like MRI too but I only use it when I'm second guessing the health of the motherboard's chipset. Gives some insight when dealing with weird/in-consistent problems. If MRI says something funny about cpu, sata/usb controller, you can sometimes update bios firmware and it'll fix the issue. This is a rare scenario though, as most hardware problems are pretty straight forward and easily diagnosed. My point is that MRI seems to serve that purpose well.