Q-Dir - program everyone should have

[Modelworks]

Recently I was away from home working on a relatives pc where no internet access was available. I only had my flash drive with me with some portable apps and the pc I was repairing would only boot to the windows recovery console but would crash if you tried to recover. I planned to copy off all their data and re-install the OS but I needed to be able to see where all their data was to start with and I didn't have enough storage for an entire disk image. The windows explorer will not work from this command prompt so that was out. I could use copy and dir commands to locate everything but that would be awfully tedious.

In recovery console I opened a command prompt , connected the flash drive and thought I would be able to open one of the explorer alternatives I had on the drive. I started with total commander, failed with errors. Free commander, failed with errors. xyplorer failed, directory opus, failed. Saw the dir for qdir and having never taken much more than a glance at it in the past typed q-dir in the prompt and expected it would fail too. Nope, q-dir loaded right up and worked flawlessly.

It takes a well written program to run from this command prompt and the program can't rely on a lot of the windows API, or .net stuff because it isn't implemented at this stage of windows loading. Q-Dir saved me a bunch of work . I recommend everyone put it on their pc and flash drives.

http://www.q-dir.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir

 

[GrumpyMan]

I have been using this program at work for a couple of years, love it. They update it at least once a month though.