UBCD Creator

UBCD Creator is a lightweight application designed in Java, which gives you the possibility to put together UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) images from files and folders. It also has features for extracting files from UBCD images as well as for patching UBCD folders. The tool contains options that are approachable enough to be tackled by all types of users.

If you already have Java Runtime Environment installed on your computer as well as 7-ZIP or another extraction tool, you don't need to set up anything else. UBCD Creator is wrapped in a single .exe that can be saved anywhere on he disk and just double-clicked to fire up the tool.

The main app window has a simple look and keeps the three components structured in a menu. The last entry is dedicated for creating UBCD ISO images, where you just have to select the UBCD folder and ISO image file to create.

To extract files from a UBCD image, it's necessary to point it out on the computer, then choose an empty directory to put them in. If there's no empty one, you can create a new one via the built-in file browser.

As far as patches are concerned, you need to select the patch file and the UBCD directory. As you can see, it's not possible to integrate patches into existing images. To make this happen, you first have to extract all content from the images, add the patch files, and then create a new UBCD image.

The project can be saved to file so you can exit the tool and later pick up where you left off. Another aspect worth mentioning is that, by default, UBCD Creator uses 7-Zip to extract files from images.

If the extraction operation doesn't work although you have 7-Zip, check its file path set by default by UBCD Creator in the options panel, and change it if it's different. Otherwise, you can just pick another image extraction program by indicating the full path to its .exe.

To sum it up, UBCD Creator delivers a straightforward solution for creating Ultimate Boot CD images, extracting files from these images, as well as applying patches. It carried out tasks fast and had minimal impact on the machine's performance in our evaluation. Too bad that it hasn't received updates for a very long time. Nevertheless, it worked smoothly on Windows 10 in our tests.