System Commander (SC for short) is a graphical
boot manager/loader software
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application developed by ''VCOM''. The software allowed for multiple
operating systems
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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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,
LILO,
GRUB, 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
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or
Windows
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Vista) to install.
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The software can run in screen resolutions up to 1600x1200.
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Partition Commander
The package also included a partition manager ( VCOM's Partition Commander) for creating, resizing and deleting partitions.
See also
* Glossary of operating systems terms
* Hypervisor
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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 i ...
* System image
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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 binary executable file.
If a system has all its state written to a disk (i ...
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