PC Tools
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PC Tools is a collection of software utilities from Central Point. The package was first developed as a suite of utilities for DOS, but by version 7.0 of the package in 1991 several Windows programs had been added to it.
Utilities in the package included:
- PC Shell — a file manager, capable amongst other things of displaying the contents of data files used by various popular database, wordprocessor, and spreadsheet packages
- PC-Cache — a licensed disk cache of HyperCache from the HyperDisk Speed Kit
- Central Point AntiVirus — a antivirus program.
- Central Point Backup — a backup utility for archiving and restoring data to and from disc or tape.
- DiskFix — a utility for repairing on-disc filesystem data structures of a disc volume
- Unformat — a utility that attempts to reverse the effects of a high-level format of a disc volume
- Undelete — a utility that attempts to recover a deleted file
- Mirror — a tool for storing the File Allocation Table to permit recovery of high-level formatted disks in combination with Unformat
- Compress — a disc volume defragmentation utility
- FileFix — a utility for repairing corruption to the data files used by various popular database, wordprocessor, and spreadsheet packages
- Commute — a remote control utility
- VDefend — a computer virus detection utility
- SysInfo — a system information utility, incorporating diagnostics from 1993 onwards. The diagnostics were licensed from the Eurosoft product Pc-Check.
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