This appears to be rather good.
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Excellent stress test for Windows
article #1489, updated 553 days ago
Quick Way to Schedule Reboot in Windows
article #467, updated 657 days ago
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
General Defrag for Windows
article #480, updated 699 days ago
UltraDefrag still comes in its free open source version:
sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/
as well as a newer, more developed paid version:
Topnotch photo management
article #1466, updated 771 days ago
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 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!
Command-Line Binaries for speedtest.net!
article #1465, updated 772 days ago
Was just shown these, how nice of them!
Install Syncthing on Linux
article #1448, updated 917 days ago
This is a great way:
To Get HPE Product Number: The HPE PartSurfer!
article #1434, updated 939 days ago
HPE must be growing a sense of humor. This thing really works well:
JEB's Diagnostic Sites for DNS, Internet email, and related
article #164, updated 939 days ago
Here are web sites for diagnosing DNS, Internet email, and other issues.
A very good place to test Internet email servers and servers in general exposed to the Internet at large.
DNSstuff is excellent for diagnosing DNS issues of all kinds. Most of its tools require a small subscription fee.
whatismyipaddress.com is very good for obtaining geographical and ISP information for an IP address.
https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/
is very good for testing Exchange WAN services, e.g., smartphone access, Outlook Anywhere.
Run CMD as SYSTEM
article #1428, updated 960 days ago
For certain tasks, it can be helpful to run CMD as SYSTEM. This can be done with paexec:
paexec -s -i -d cmd.exe
or psexec:
psexec -sid %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\cmd.exe
Good & simple app to burn CDs in Windows and create ISOs from disks
article #357, updated 1292 days ago
AnyBurn seems to be possibly the current best light & powerful CD/DVD toolbox item:
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: