Allows you to turn off specific updates so Windows doesn't install them.

To prevent the automatic installation of a specific Windows Update or an updated driver on Windows 10

http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/2/2/F22D5FDB-59CD-4275-8C95-1BE17BF70B21/wushowhide.diagcab

ref: https://www.repairwin.com/prevent-a-specific-windows-update-or-driver-from-installing-in-windows-10/

 

Windows Deployment

Provisioning Packages (ppkg)

Unattended installation for Windows.

Thorough MDT setup Guide

 

Windows de-bloat, de-crap utilities

Windows 10 (and maybe 11?)

https://github.com/dpeldo/Basic-DeBloat/blob/main/Invoke-RemoveBuiltinApps.ps1

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mdm/policy-csp-experience#experience-allowwindowsconsumerfeatures

https://www.jorgebernhardt.com/turn-off-microsoft-consumer-experiences/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/appx/remove-appxpackage 

Spiceworks Win10 Decrapifier  

1) disable consumer experience via GPO (Computer config > admin temp. > windows comp. > cloud content)

2) turn off recent search entries in file explorer (user config > admin temp. > windows comp. > file explorer

Windows 11 Only

ThisIsWin11 on GitHub

Exotic software and licensing sources

Exotic software and licensing sources

https://www.kinguin.net/. Legit licenses from this one.

https://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/. Similar to Kinguin above.

https://www.teamos.xyz. For research purposes only.

http://www.teamos-hkrg.com Redirects to above link. For research purposes only.

https://www.keyingo.com

https://stacksocial.com/

https://msguides.com     This guy has many guides for using MS software

https://techaid24.com has SQL server resources

Ghange a GPT Partition to MBR (with complete data loss)

Open admin cmd prompt

c:\>diskpart

list disk

select disk <disk number> 

clean

convert mbr

exit

 

 

disk2vhd with UEFI systems

Ref: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2329130-disk2vhd-created-vhdx-won-t-boot-system-is-uefi-and-vm-is-gen-2

Option one: Altaro

Download Altaro Physical Server backup.  Run a Backup.  Then using the same software run a "Restore to VM".  Takes 2x as long as below method but works great, and is free (for 30 days).

Option two: bcdedit

Run DISK2VHD on the source server then configure the VM as a Generation2 VM with the VHD attached and boot to a Windows Server ISO run the recovery console to access the command prompt

• diskpart

• sel disk 0

• list vol

• sel vol (number of the RAW volume should be around 99MB or 100MB)

• format fs=fat32 quick

• assign letter=A

• exit

• bcdboot C:\Windows /s A: /f UEFI

exit and reboot, the server will boot normally.

 

Using DISM offline

Ref: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1399493-how-do-i-use-the-dism-command-with-a-downloaded-iso-of-win10/

This worked when the below one wouldn't even mount the .wim file.  Downloaded a Win2012r2 ISO, mounted it to D: then ran:

dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:D:\sources\install.wim /limitaccess

 

Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/269141/dism-not-finding-source.html

The "/index:2" might vary from 1..4?  But 2 worked for me.

MotoX80 answered • Feb 13 2021 at 5:47 AM

Try this.

 md C:\test\offline 
 DISM.exe /Mount-Wim /WimFile:e:\sources\install.wim /index:2 /MountDir:C:\test\offline /ReadOnly
 Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /restoreHealth /source:C:\test\offline /loglevel:4

When you are done.

 DISM.exe /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\test\offline /discard

Project Naptha - Copy and paste text from images in Chrome

This Chrome plugin allows you to copy and paste text that are inside images.  It is an on-the-fly OCR that works remarkably well.

https://projectnaptha.com/

 

PL2303HXA Phased out since 2012. Please contact your supplier (SOLVED)

I have a USB to serial adapter that started showing "PL2303HXA Phased out since 2012. Please contact your supplier" in Device Manager.  This is because it is a copy of the Prolific chipset.

Reference: https://www.connectix.nl/pl2303hxa-phased-out-since-2012-please-contact-your-supplier-solved/

How to Fix

1. Download and install the driver from link below.
2. Go to device manager > Right click device > Update driver
3. Browse my computer for drivers > Let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer
4. Select "Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port Version 3.3.2.105 [27/10/08]" from the list
5. Voila! A working usb-serial adapter again.
   

 

Download driver installer here

TinyWow: Tools That Solve Your Files Problem

TinyWow is a website for converting between many file formats, or modifying different kinds of files.  All Free.

https://tinywow.com/