Some Notes on the Machines

HPE must be growing a sense of humor. This thing really works well:

https://partsurfer.hpe.com/Search.aspx

For certain tasks, it can be helpful to run CMD as SYSTEM. This can be done with paexec:

paexec -i -s cmd.exe

or psexec:

psexec -i -s cmd.exe

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 { "$_"; wevtutil cl "$_" }