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[wasbit]

Thought I might start a new topic on freeware.

WSCC (Windows System Control Center)

Portable & free for personal use. Windows 7 – 11.

Contains the combined suites of programmes from SysInternals (Mark Russovitch), Nirsoft (Nir Sofer), Mitek (Michal Mutl) & some from Steve Gibson of Gibson Research.

Too many to list but they are all bundled into one suite with it’s own console for the command line programmes, though most seem to be GUI & all can be updated from the main window.

– http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/index.php

It’s one of those programmes that you don’t know you need until you’ve got it then you don’t know what you would do without it.

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wasbit

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[wasbit]

Mark Russinovich not Russovich

URLs for the individual websites:

SysInternals – https://live.sysinternals.com/
Mitec – http://mitec.cz/
Nirsoft – https://www.nirsoft.net/
Gibson Research – https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm

 

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wasbit

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[keith with the teef]

I gotta take a look at that.

[wasbit]

In a previous post I mentioned Snappy Driver Installer Origin which is great for finding those obscure chipset drivers that normally come with the motherboard CD but are difficult, if not impossible, to find online

– https://www.glenn.delahoy.com/snappy-driver-installer-origin/

In a similar vein is DriverPack Solution by Artur Kuzyakov (& originally posted by Dave)

– http://drp.su/

At the click of a button it will install all missing drivers on any Windows 7 /8/10 & presumably Windows 11.

Major Geeks write up (& download) – https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/driverpack_solution.html

“DriverPack Solution is a utility for the automatic installation of drivers & software.

This utility is entirely suitable for all models of computers and laptops, including Asus, Acer, Sony, Samsung, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu-Siemens, DELL, eMachines, MSI, and much more.

DriverPack Solution contains the drivers for all devices including Motherboard, Sound Card, Video Card, Network Card, Wi-Fi, Chipset, Controller, Bluetooth, Modem, Web-camera, Card Reader, CPU, Input Device, Monitor, Printer, Scanner, USB, to name a few.”

Lots of Youtube videos on how to use online & offline.

 

 

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[Ed P]

Sysinternals is a great package, but it helps to use one of the many tutorials such as the one on using Process Explorer to find malware: link

[wasbit]

Having another PC to find the motherboard drivers for, I thought that as I hadn’t used it for some years, I would try out DriverPack Solution & I wish I hadn’t.

Mine is version 17.4.5 run from a USB thumb drive along with all the drivers so that it can be used off line. It wants to run & install everything automatically. It took ages to sort itself out then installed Opera, a Facebook link & something else that I can’t remember before I cancelled the programme & removed the unwanted wares. Shame because it used to be a good programme but perhaps it’s the price that has to be paid when a programme is free & requires further resources.

Happy to report that Snappy Driver Installer Origin did the job. Had to use the online option as I hadn’t downloaded any driver packs. These are delivered to the programme by torrent (found accidentally by hovering the cursor, or right clicking, the downloading line in the GUI).

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[wasbit]

Warpinator: Easy Network File Transfer between Windows, Linux, Android & iOS

Warpinator – https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator
Winpinator – https://winpinator.swisz.cz/
Winpinator is an unofficial Windows port of a Linux file transfer tool called Warpinator.

Other platforms (unofficial):

Android: https://github.com/slowscript/warpinator-android
iOS: https://github.com/williamMillington/warpinator-iOS (beta)
Windows: https://github.com/slowscript/warpinator-windows

 

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[wasbit]

Winamp 5.9

Following on from the beta of Winamp 5.8 in 2018 version 5.9 is now available to download which includes support for Windows 11.

Versions 2 & 5 can be updated by installing over the top but version 3 needs to be uninstalled before installing 5.9.

– http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=458120

 

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[wasbit]

Ventoy – https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Ventoy is an open source tool to create a multi boot USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. Load as many ISOs etc as there is space for.
Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen
Supports MBR and GPT, x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, MIPS64EL UEFI, IA32/x86_64 UEFI Secure Boot
Supports persistance

Other free multi boot USB drives

Easy2boot – http://www.easy2boot.com/
MultiBootUSB – https://sourceforge.net/projects/multibootusb/
Sardu – https://www.sarducd.it/downloads.html
WinSetupFromUSB – http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/
Xboot – https://sites.google.com/site/shamurxboot/
YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer) – http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

 

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Hi Ed.

I actually brought the Windows Sysinternals Reference book from Microsoft press.

The book goes into great detail about every Sysinternals utility that was avaliable  at the time it was published.

The book also starts out with an explination of how Windows Virtual Memory and processes work, if you don’t want to buy Windows Internals Vol’s 1&2, it’s worth it just for that.

[Ed P]

Good choice. Sysinternals is a great set of tools but far from intuitive.

I see that M$ have produced another similar book ‘Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools‘. Scanning the index for this, it looks like it covers a lot of topics in one place, and saves hunting through the Internet – better in fact as one problem with on-line searches is that you either have to know roughly what you want, or need to use the correct terminology. I might treat myself to a Kindle version. ( I have too many out of date computer reference books in hardback.)

[wasbit]

Rufus 3.2 now allows all restrictions of Windows 11 to be bypassed.

After the ISO,  Partition scheme & Target system requirements (eg GPT/UEFI MBR/BIOS) have been selected
Start – Rufus gives a popup window
Customise Windows Installation with tick boxes for
• Remove requirement for 4GB+ RAM, Secure Boot & TPM 2.0
• Remove Rrequirement for online Microsoft account
• Disable data collection (skip privacy questions)
• Set local account using same name as this user’s
• Set regional options using the same value as this user’s

– https://rufus.ie/en/

 

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[keith with the teef]

I found this site that seems to do everything M$ real cheap. Well for now they do. You can even get a W7 key. Make sure you are on the UK site £

Software (gamers-outlet.net)

[wasbit]

Seeing Dave’s diagram in the Wifi Issues thread reminded me of Network Notepad, a freeware for creating network diagrams

– http://www.networknotepad.com/

 

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[wasbit]

Patch My PC Home Updater (portable)

Updates over 300 common apps check ✔ including portable apps
Ability to cache updates for use on multiple machines
No bloatware during installations
Applications install/update silently by default no install wizard needed
Optionally, disable silent install to perform a manual custom install
Easy to use user interface
Installs 64-bit apps by default on 64-bit windows
Optionally choose to install 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows
Change updated and outdated apps color for color blindness
Option to automatically kill programs before updating it
Portable and only about 1.5MB
Create a baseline of applications if installing on new PC’s
Quickly uninstall multiple programs
Scan time is usually less than 1 second
Set updates to happen on a schedule
Skip updates for any application you don’t want to update
Suppresses restarts when performing application updates

– https://patchmypc.com/home-updater

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wasbit

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Rig 2: Asus ROG G20CB (rebuilt wreck)
Rig 3: HP Elitebook 8440P

Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[keith with the teef]

Super skinny W10 for gamers and giving old hardware: single/dual-core systems new life.
It’s so skinny it comes without W defender. So need a third-party AV.
https://atlasos.net

[wasbit]

<p>Discmaster – http://discmaster.textfiles.com/<br />
Vast collection of free items taken from magazine CDs (& floppies).<br />
11.4TB<br />
7000 discs<br />
113,084,317 files</p>

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[JayCeeDee]

<p>Hi wasbit – the link in the post returns a 404 error. That’s because a bit of coding – the <br part – has found it’s way into your link. 👍👍</p>

[wasbit]

<p>Thanks. Can’t edit it out.<br />
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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[Ed P]

<p><p>The BBCodes seems to be a default  since early December when Lee did a ‘cleanup’.</p><br />
<p>This post is a bit of a test as I ‘cleared formatting’ before beginning the post.</p><br />
<p> </p></p>
<p>Well that did not help!</p>

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