Some Notes on the Machines

For Windows 10: http://win10se.cwcodes.net/

For Windows 8: http://w8pese.cwcodes.net/

For Windows 7: http://reboot.pro/topic/12427-win7pe-se-release/

First, we have the excellent http://www.audacityteam.org. This is a longstanding project, and has by far the most functionality of any cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, others) project of which I’m aware. It can handle as many tracks as CPU and RAM will permit, and has an excellent array of effects, including the ability to remove tones from a complex whole using its Noise Reduction facility.

Additionally, we have a newcomer, http://www.ocenaudio.com.br. This is a wonderful piece of work, and is much easier when trying to do a simple edit on a single audio file. Its UI is a work of art, both visually and in function.

First, from administrative CMD:

wusa /uninstall /kB:3035583
wusa /uninstall /kB:2952664
wusa /uninstall /kB:2976978
wusa /uninstall /kB:3021917
wusa /uninstall /kB:3044374
wusa /uninstall /kB:2990214

Then you need to prevent the same updates from being reinstalled, from the Windows Installer GUI in the Control Panel.

1. Do these in an administrative CMD:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoAdminLogon /t REG_SZ /d "1" /f

control userpasswords2

2. Uncheck “Users must enter a username and password to use this computer”, click Apply.

3. Type the username and password, click OK. Use DOMAIN\username if this is not a DC.

The password is stored in the computer in encrypted form.

To get QuickBooks to send email via MAPI to the Click-To-Run version of Outlook (2013, 2016, 365), we consult the amazing Jared Dexter, who found the following.

1) In the Win.ini file add the following section:

[MAIL]
MAPI=1
MAPIX=1

2) Open the Registry Editor and add these keys and values. Some or all most likely won’t already be there:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MAIL]
MAPI=1
MAPIX=1

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem]
MAPI=1
MAPIX=1

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MAIL]
MAPI=1
MAPIX=1

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem]
MAPI=1
MAPIX=1

Open QuickBooks, Outlook should now be an option. This has been seen to work in Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit, Office 2013 Home & Business 32-bit and Office 2016 via 365, with QuickBooks Enterprise 14 and 15.

By default, Cox will DHCP to your systems some DNS servers which behave like OpenDNS, i.e., if there is a DNS name miss, the servers will show a hit which is a Cox search page. This can confuse a lot of things. Cox has provided a way around this:

http://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet/article.cox?articleId=e14ee070-6448-11df-ccef-000000000000

for residential at least, it uses these two IPs as static DNS:

68.105.28.13
68.105.29.13

and these do appear to be noticeably faster!

Courtesy of the amazing Jared Dexter:

http://www.synergy-project.org/

A great place to find them:

http://internethelp.centurylink.com/internethelp/dns-ctl.html

A new tool, very good:

http://www.drivethelife.com/

Additionals, not tested yet:

http://drivermax.en.lo4d.com/

http://driver-genius-professional.en.lo4d.com/

http://driver-fusion.en.lo4d.com/

This one appears to work rather well:

http://smadav.en.lo4d.com/