Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

[JR2ALTA]

Hey guys, help me build a robust, professional-grade everyday carry thumb drive.

So far I have

- Firefox.exe

- Angry IP Scanner

- a lightweight FTP Utility

- CCleaner.exe

- a few how-to notes and pdfs

- working on a voluminous print driver collection


What do YOU carry.

Thanks in advance!

[KenB]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

Wouldn't be without:

- Wireshark (packet captures)

- Ghostscript / Ghostview (PostScript viewer)

- PCL Reader (PCL viewer)

- Downloader 2006 (a conglomeration of printer tools)

- Irfanview (all around graphic file tool; also an excellent scanning application)

All of these tools are free for the downloading.

[JustManuals]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

Something else to carry around is a blank thumb drive for when you have to download firmware on the fly or out in the field.

Paul

[slimslob]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

Don't forget the drivers for the models that you service most often. You never know when the customer asks you to install the driver on a new computer.

[ZOOTECH]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

Something else to carry around is a blank thumb drive for when you have to download firmware on the fly or out in the field.

Paul

We know you really mean Frimwar, right?

[gpsorell]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

Check out www.portableapps.com.

I don't really know how many apps I have on my main thumb drive. All of these apps run directly from the thumb drive and don't leave files behind on the host computer. I also have this installed on a USB hard drive that has all of my manuals, drivers & firmware files.

[Tonerbomb]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

I also carry Fing and netstumbler. I've had to upgrade my thumb drive to 128gig recently............

[JustManuals]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

We know you really mean Frimwar, right?

Yes, my mistake, Frimwar or even Frimware. (hiding head in shame)
Paul

[KenB]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

Wouldn't be without:

- Wireshark (packet captures)

- Ghostscript / Ghostview (PostScript viewer)

- PCL Reader (PCL viewer)

- Downloader 2006 (a conglomeration of printer tools)

- Irfanview (all around graphic file tool; also an excellent scanning application)

All of these tools are free for the downloading.

A few additions:

- Wireshark is available as a U3 version, and can run from a U3 jump drive, not requiring any installation.

- Miniraw and Minilpd are my favorite tools to directly capture print jobs (your PC takes on the IP of the printer). These tools require far less finagling than Wireshark does. They are free, as well.

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[blackcat4866]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

for Kyocera PreScribe commands: LPR Jar

http://gccprinters.com/support/doc/lprutil.html

=^..^=

[MattL]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

Firmware and drivers mainly although I tend to download drivers from the Sharp site when I am at customers.

I have a few files used for demoing print from USB and a use it for USB scanning when on site and then plug into laptop and email over to where ever needed.

[CompyTech]

These are some good suggestions, I need to check some of them out. I mainly carry blanks for farmware most drivers and firmware I keep on my lap top and just copy to USB when I need them.

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[Tonerbomb]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

These are some good suggestions, I mainly carry blanks for farmware

farmware???????? go to tractor supply. It's frimwar or Frimware !!!!!!!!!!!! a CTN standard !!!!!!!!!!!

[Hansoon]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

It's frimwar or Frimware !!!!!!!!!!!!

Exactly! We don't want to upset Zaza......

Hans

[JustManuals]

Re: Must have Thumb Drive Utilities

for Kyocera PreScribe commands: LPR Jar

http://gccprinters.com/support/doc/lprutil.html

=^..^=

That GCC printer site hasn't been updated since 2004. I've got 25 GCC printer manuals on my site. Haven't sold any of them yet.

Paul