Hiren's Boot CD is a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems. It is a Bootable CD; thus, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted. Hiren's Boot CD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through UI differences.

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Changes from Hiren's BootCD 9.5 > 9.6
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+ HDTune 2.55
+ SIW 2008-09-03
+ Active NTFS Reader Dos 1.0.2
+ 7-Zip 4.57
- F-Prot Antivirus
CPU/Video/Disk Performance Test 5.7
Ghost 11.5
GhostExp.Exe 11.5
Ghost Walker 11.5
HDD Erase 4.0
CTIA CPU Information 2.7
TestDisk 6.10
PhotoRec 6.10
IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.14
IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 2.11
SeaTools for Dos 1.10
Hard Disk Sentinel 0.02
System Analyser 5.3u
Navratil Software System Information 0.60.32
Astra 5.40
HWiNFO 5.2.2
Drive SnapShot 1.39
Recuva 1.19.350
Restoration 3.2.13
Unstoppable Copier 3.56
HDD Scan 3.1
Express Burn 4.15
JkDefrag 3.36
Process Explorer 11.21
Unlocker 1.8.7
Silent Runners Revision 58
AutoRuns 9.34
CurrPorts 1.50
CPU-Z 1.47
SmitFraudFix 2.354
CCleaner 2.12.651
ProduKey 1.32
WirelessKeyView 1.18
ShellExView 1.23
PC Wizard 2008.1.86
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.6 (2909)
SpywareBlaster 4.1(2909)
PCI 32 Sniffer 1.4 (2909)
McAfee Antivirus 4.4.50 (2909)
Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06 (2909)
PCI and AGP info Tool (2909)
Unknown Devices 1.2 (2909)