Some Notes on the Machines

Windows, Linux, and MacOS:

https://etcher.io/

Previous favorites now come bundled with very unwanted adware. This one comes bundled with just the Google Toolbar, it works very well:

https://www.ccleaner.com/defraggler

Chocolatey is a great way to get the fundamentals into a new install of Windows. First we install it:

@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

And then we get everything we want in:

choco install -y GoogleChrome Firefox jre8 adobereader flashplayerplugin flashplayeractivex adobeair adobereader-update flashplayerppapi adobeshockwaveplayer

Beautiful!

A module called PSWindowsUpdate. Can be installed under that name using Chocolatey and also the PowerShell Gallery. A very good rundown on its use is here. PowerShell 2.0 and above.

AnyBurn seems to be possibly the new best light & powerful CD/DVD toolbox item:

www.anyburn.com/download.php

It’s available in 64-bit and 32-bit versions. ImgBurn was go-to for a long time, but it hasn’t had updates since 2013.

Here’s a great tester:

https://ftptest.net/

Wonderful tool, cross-platform:

http://www.httrack.com

This seems a very nice tool.

https://helgeklein.com/free-tools/delprof2-user-profile-deletion-tool/

Two immediately appear very attractive:

http://www.yworks.com/products/yed

https://www.calligra.org/flow/

This looked interesting:

https://nomacs.org/