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TFGWin
the F@t Guy's Utilities
for Windows

Coming SOON! TFGWin is in late alpha stage production and works perfectly well. It's not yet widely distributable, as it still awaits TFGPkg's redevelopment for updating capabilities, and the ability to download the initial packages automatically. I am greatly interested in beta testers who are familiar with the TFGWin and TFGCmd suites for feedback. Write to me if you would like to participate.

The F@t Guy's Utilities for Windows known coloquially as TFGWin, began life somewhere back in the early fog of Win3x - In the primordial ooze of digital creation. At the time, there was a distinct difference between my utility suites, and TFGWin was a lame sidekick to my main suite at the time, TFGDOS, and the original F@t Guy Utilities (for DOS).

It has always been the same thing - a group of portable applications for Windows which were centered around the computer tech. The

applications were not my own - TFGWin can be thought of as a framework for such applications - but rather the standard fare apps that most techs would recognize.

As time rolled on, TFGWin became quite robust, to the point of being a mini98SE creator, with a whole raft of applications that could be reduced and stored in a complicated zip-file system... As it ran from a ram drive once booted, and since there was such a pitiful bit of room on a cd, this complicated system would unzip the stored ap into the ramdrive, blow in registry entries, start the app, and then on close, would reverse the process, so that the whole shooting match ran in under 20mgs of pure ram.

Eventually, the product was separated into different aspects, and finally different products, as the applications were moved to a thumb drive orientation, the bootable mini became TFGBoot., and the zip storage system eventually morphed into TFGPkg.

Now they are almost coming back together: TFGDOS's inheritor, TFGCmd, is now capapable of being a module; TFGTools (a particular fork of PKGMgr), is another module; both being readily plugged into the same old TFGWin (well, 'same ol' looking, anyway), and all very portably residing on a 2-4g thumb. And if it is a 4g thumb or better, TFGBoot can reside there too.

But starting as far back as XP SP2, TFGWin started having problems coping with changes in the Windows OS (mainly because it relied upon the failing TFGDOS), and the html viewer I was using was showing it's age. So when I began this current round of updates with the rewrite of TFGCmd, one of the central applications was a new html viewer. TFGThing takes the features I was used to having and improves upon them greatly - And since TFGThing is, at it's heart, a glorified CDMenu, it works extraordinarily well as the front end for TFGWin (and TFGTools).

It still uses a prepackaged set of aftermarket utilities, all of which are free, ranging from diagnostics and maintenance utilities, to offline tools for use when booted to a rescue platform. But even with the prepackaged offerings, it is still wholly configurable, easily adding which ever utilities you would prefer. And there are many, many portable applications that can be explored nowadays.... in fact most utilitiy apps are offering reliable portable versions by their original authors, so expanding this suite is quite endless.

For posterity's sake, here's a cap of the old version 6: