Some Notes on the Machines

“just-install”:

https://just-install.github.io/

Looks very good, e.g. for Java (!), testing.

AnyBurn seems to be possibly the current 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. Quite a few others are gone too. But the old reliable CDBurnerXP is still being kept up to Windows 10 as well:

cdburnerxp.se/

Test if UDP ports are open to the Internet.

https://www.ipvoid.com/udp-port-scan/

These may come in handy:

https://bit.ly/2Uc3Add
https://bit.ly/3dAnMgK

Many old friends, e.g. Hiren’s and UBCD4Win, are no longer in development, and do not boot on quite a lot of newer hardware; for a while there was no clear replacement. The only one known to this writer that works well on current made-for-10 hardware, is Medicat:

gbatemp.net/threads/medicat-dvd-a-multiboot-linux-dvd.361577/

I have just moved to this one:

https://www.notefly.org/

Bugs showing up in the others I’ve used, some of them only showing up at the end of the day when lots of notes exist.

Here’s a great place to do so:

https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

And another:

https://www.ultratools.com/tools/spamDBLookup

And another:

http://www.dnsbl-check.info/

And a third, realtime:

http://www.uceprotect.net/en/rblcheck.php

This seems to be quite the tool. Haven’t tested it yet.

https://github.com/oneget/oneget

Can be installed or updated in 10 with: Install-Module -Name PackageManagement -Force

Try this, in administrative Powershell:

wevtutil el | ForEach-Object { "$_"; wevtutil cl "$_" }

Currently I am looking at these:

www.hwinfo.com/

www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

SpeedFan used to be my go-to tool, but it has not had updates since 2016, and I have seen it crash two Windows 10s during its driver install, though it worked after reboot. It will still give you S.M.A.R.T. hard drive info for any individual drives, and it does this better than anything else I know of.