OWTAS sets a number of additional critical and delayed worker threads, plus service work items. The changes are autocalculated according to a combination of RAM and OS bit-width (32 vs. 64). Performance will increase, more so with more RAM. Available as VBS and as PowerShell 3 and up. Future development will be in PowerShell, as part of the windows-tools project.
The tool is designed for Windows 10 down through XP. As of 2017-10-10, it is self-elevating if run non-administratively.
Lately I (Jonathan) have been taking old laptops no longer worthwhile for Microsoft Windows, and setting them up for some friends of mine who travel to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea and other places. They go bearing gifts, digging freshwater wells for people suffering the lack quite a lot; and they go bearing the joy of the Lord.
So far Linux Lite has been the best of several distros for the purpose. It is extremely reliable and hardware agnostic, installs quite rapidly, and has the available breadth of Ubuntu, including helpful language support, while being a very nicely lightweight OS.
Here is my install outline at this writing.
This one reinstalls, repairs, and refreshes a wide variety of bits which QuickBooks uses. Helps with both installs and malfunctions.
Connectwise bought Labtech, and renamed it Automate. The documentation tree has been moved here:
docs.connectwise.com/ConnectWise_Automate
and documentation for scripting now starts here:
docs.connectwise.com/ConnectWise_Automate/ConnectWise_Automate_Documentation/070/240
There are several tools fitting this general description, but this writer has only found one turnkey installable. This is Yacy:
Very fast, quite straightforward to set up and configure (though you’ll learn a thing or two if you’ve never thought about search very much!), almost not at all counterintuitive. It can be easily set up as either a LAN-local search server or part of its distributed WWW network.
There is a runner up, Open Search Server:
If its documentation were remotely adequate, it might be comparable, but sadly, not.
If you place a tilde (~) before the command you enter, no space after, your command will be run within Powershell. For instance:
~dir
Archiving and retention deletions, are only executed once every seven days in Exchange Online, unless a manual execute is performed. This is done thusly:
Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity usernamewhere username is appropriate for the mailbox in study.
If Windows Updates says it’s controlled by system administration and not you, check all three of these:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
You’ll probably see a DWORD preventing access. Delete it and try again.
Lots and lots of interesting apps can be installed easily, and across distros, with Snapcraft: