Some Notes on the Machines

There are only three methods for Windows, which appear to work reliably for Adobe Reader DC (among many others) at this time:

Ninite Pro – not free

Chocolatey – large community

RuckZuck – very interesting, based in Switzerland

This page is very helpful:

mybusinessservice.surface.com/en-US/CheckWarranty/CheckWarranty

Try this for Windows 10 etc., from the excellent Brigg Bush:

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/67-microsoft-windows-and-office-iso-download-tool

For Server 2022 through 2012R2 (at this writing), and Windows Enterprise 11 and 10, we have this:

www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter

See the menu at the upper left corner to choose.

This appears to be rather good.

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/StressMyPC

Run these in an administrative or SYSTEM-level command prompt.

In Windows 8.1/2012R2/10/2016 and later, we set a scheduled task, we do have to specify the actual full date:

schtasks /create /tn "schtasks_REBOOT" /tr "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -f -r -t 0" /sc once /st 04:00 /sd 01/01/2016 /ru System

In 8/2012R1, we have to have a “/Y on the very end:

schtasks /create /tn "schtasks_REBOOT" /tr "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -f -r -t 0" /sc once /st 04:00 /sd 01/01/2016 /ru System /Y

Under 7/2008R2 and before, it was easier, we could schedule for 4:00 AM tomorrow:

AT 4:00 c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -f -r -t 0

and we could schedule for 4:00 AM next Monday:

AT 4:00 /next:Monday c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -f -r -t 0

UltraDefrag still comes in its free open source version:

sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/

as well as a newer, more developed paid version:

ultradefrag.net

I was shocked recently, when software for excellent photo management was needed. A whole lot of newer options involving web servers, cloud hosts, etc., but very little simple and powerful, and some standards of yore are gone. However. One is not:

XnView MP

XnView has been around for decades, XnView MP is their new thorough revision. I tested a pile of these things, and XnView MP is by far the best, features and speed and design friendly for both new user and the technical.

Here are the others I tested:

• Irfanview (has features, much less friendly)
• nomacs (lacking features)
• digiKam (too slow, crashy)
• jpegview (lacking features)
• FastStone Image Viewer (lacking batch resize)
• ImageGlass Spider (lacking features)
• ACDSee Photo Studio (expensive, overkill, bloatware)
• Various Adobe products (expensive and overkill, or free and lacking features)

If you have better, please do let me know!

Was just shown these, how nice of them!

https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

My favorite by far:

https://app.diagrams.net/

Two more I have used:

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

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

This is a great way:

webinstall.dev/syncthing/