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System Commander (SC for short) is a graphical boot manager/loader
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application developed by ''VCOM''. The software allowed for multiple
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to be installed onto a machine at once, providing a menu from which the user selected the operating system they wished to boot from. Other software with similar functionality includes NTLDR,
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, and Graphical Boot Manager. One of its components was named '' Partition Commander''.


Overview

''System Commander'' was introduced in 1993 by V Communications, sometimes referred to as VCOM.


Description

A major feature of System Commander is its ability to hide partitions. An operating system could be configured to not recognize other partitions, preventing the data of other installed operating systems from being accessed or tampered with. ''System Commander'' requires either 32-bit DOS or
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/ Vista) to install. The software can run in screen resolutions up to 1600x1200.


Partition Commander

The package also included a partition manager ( VCOM's Partition Commander) for creating, resizing and deleting partitions. Partition Commander was not the only software in this market;
PartitionMagic PartitionMagic is a utility software program for hard disk drive partitioning originally made by PowerQuest, but subsequently owned by Symantec. As of December 8, 2009, the Symantec website stated that they no longer offer PartitionMagic. Th ...
was a recognized alternative. A 2005 review noted that some of the conveniences of Partition Magic, such as walk away and let a series of operations take place; with Partition Commander "you have to wait until each task is complete before initiating the next."


See also

* Glossary of operating systems terms *
Hypervisor A hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monitor, VMM, or virtualizer) is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called ...
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List of disk partitioning software This is a list of utilities for performing disk partitioning Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. It ...
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System image In computing, a system image is a serialized copy of the entire state of a computer system stored in some non-volatile form such as a file. A system is said to be capable of using system images if it can be shut down and later restored to exactl ...


References


External links


Partition Commander
on VCOM's website * {{official website, https:www.vcom.com Boot loaders Disk partitioning software Proprietary software Discontinued software Utilities for Windows