Winternals Wins Readers' Choice Awards from Two IT Publications at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2004; Readers Vote ERD Commander 2003, FileRestore Best in Category.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Microsoft TechED 2004

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004

Winternals, a leading provider of Microsoft systems infrastructure availability and performance solutions, today announced that its products have won Windows Server System Magazine's 2004 Readers' Choice Awards and W2Knews' Target Awards. Both awards were presented last week at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2004 in San Diego, Calif.

Windows Server System Magazine readers voted ERD Commander 2003 the Best Disaster Recovery Tool, and voted FileRestore the Best File Recovery Tool in the publication's second annual Readers' Choice Awards. The awards will be announced in the July, 2004 issue of the magazine. Readers of W2Knews awarded ERD Commander 2003 the top Emergency Disk Management product for 2004.

"We are pleased that the readers of these publications place such a high value on our products," said Edwin Brasch, president and CEO of Winternals. "These awards are especially encouraging considering that the voters are the very people who can benefit the most from our Windows system repair and recovery tools."

Windows Server System Magazine, published by Fawcette Technical Publications, is circulated to 83,000 qualified IT professionals, whom the publication describes as technical experts. Voting for the Readers' Choice Awards was conducted via an e-mail survey to the publication's subscriber base.

"Readers' Choice Awards are significant because they offer Windows Server System Magazine subscribers an opportunity to voice their opinions about the products they find most useful in their work," said Executive Editor Mark Cappel. "Subscribers are technical experts with strong opinions. These Readers' Choice Awards provide them with an opportunity to express those opinions and share their expertise."

W2Knews, published by Sunbelt Software, is an online newsletter dedicated to Windows NT/2000/2003 systems administrators charged with keeping Windows networks running. Voting for the Target Awards was implemented via an online poll among the newsletter's 350,000 subscribers. Categories and finalists for the Target Awards were created by the W2Knews editorial staff to reflect real-world solutions.

"The Target Awards represent our attempt to highlight the ultimate shortlist of the best tools that system administrators look for in a number of categories," said Stu Sjouwerman, Editor-in-Chief of W2Knews.

ERD Commander 2003 boots a dead system into a Windows-like environment to diagnose and repair the damaged computer directly from the product CD. It bypasses the operating system of the damaged machine, letting users make repairs from a familiar windowing environment with a taskbar and desktop shortcuts.

FileRestore restores lost files to operational use. It provides access to all deleted files on Windows systems -- across FAT, FAT32, and NTFS volumes -- including files emptied from the Recycle Bin, deleted by application programs and remote processes, lost with removed directories, or deleted via the Command Prompt. FileRestore works without modifying the Windows environment, and leaves the Recycle Bin intact.

Both of these products are bundled in the Administrator's Pak, a suite of Winternals' most popular repair, recovery, and diagnostics tools, which also includes NTFSDOS Professional, Disk Commander, Remote Recover, Monitoring Tools, and TCPView Professional. The Administrator's Pak provides repair and recovery functionality that can minimize downtime and data loss by avoiding reinstallation on an unbootable machine.

About Winternals

Founded in 1996, Winternals is a leading provider of systems infrastructure availability and performance solutions for Microsoft-based enterprises worldwide. Winternals solutions empower IT professionals to rapidly resolve the daily emergencies that arise when administering Windows systems and maintain high availability of mission critical systems. By accelerating recovery, improving data integrity, increasing productivity, and optimizing performance, Winternals reduces the total cost of ownership for the Microsoft-based enterprise. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Winternals counts among its customers forty-eight of the Fortune 50 and ninety-five of the Fortune 100. For more information on Winternals visit www.winternals.com.