A collection of things that I’ve found useful for one reason or another during my time troubleshooting windows workstations and helping end users. Hopefully you will find them as helpful as I have.
The links to these tools contain the MD5 as the downloads are hosted by myself from a Backblaze bucket you should check the MD5 of what you download before you run any of it, checking the MD5 does not make the software safe but it does make sure that at least you got what you attempted to download check your MD5 elsewhere to confirm. None of this software is mine this is just a collection of links to acquire it use at your own risk.
TFC MD5: 788fcddd88240a85039f7f561093b118
The temp file cleaner by old-timer is a classic utility designed to clean all the old temp files off of windows systems, works with Windows xp - Windows 10
Take Ownership MD5: 38a8674b9bb64a27ec999fcc9e3df662
An old registry hack that enables a take ownership right click option, useful for when you’re stuck with a file you can’t seem to change the permissions of even though you have admin access.
hpflash1 MD5: e30ffd26b45c78303085dc4f35a24a80
The HP flash utility, great for making DOS boot drives.
DoubleDriver MD5: 98f948a5806cf6d84bfb2dabc8c48a95
Double Driver, the unsung hero of printer migrations and new system builds. This utility can suck the drivers right out of an existing windows install and throw them directly at a new one.
Putty! For all your SSH, Serial and Telnetting needs, no direct download provided go get it from the source.
for when you really need to check and see if you can configure something with Group Policy.
Windows CLI things Get the service tag of dell PC’s from Command Prompt or PowerShell
wmic bios get serialnumber
Expire a computers kerberos ticket thus forcing the computer to get a new one this helps windows detect a change in AD OU’s without rebooting so that you can run gpupdate /force without needing to reboot. Useful for systems that cant be shut down but do need to be moved in AD.
klist -li 0x3e7 purge
The links to these tools contain the MD5 as the downloads are hosted by myself from a Backblaze bucket you should check the MD5 of what you download before you run any of it, checking the MD5 does not make the software safe but it does make sure that at least you got what you attempted to download check your MD5 elsewhere to confirm. None of this software is mine this is just a collection of links to acquire it use at your own risk.
The temp file cleaner by old-timer is a classic utility designed to clean all the old temp files off of windows systems, works with Windows xp - Windows 10
An old registry hack that enables a take ownership right click option, useful for when you’re stuck with a file you can’t seem to change the permissions of even though you have admin access.
The HP flash utility, great for making DOS boot drives.
Double Driver, the unsung hero of printer migrations and new system builds. This utility can suck the drivers right out of an existing windows install and throw them directly at a new one.
for when you really need to check and see if you can configure something with Group Policy.
wmic bios get serialnumber
klist -li 0x3e7 purge