{"id":44,"date":"2006-07-24T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/meta-windows-utilities\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T02:40:18","slug":"meta-windows-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/meta-windows-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-Windows utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/\">SysInternals<\/a> utilities?  You can download them all yourself, or there's a really useful <a href=\"http:\/\/smithii.com\/?q=node\/view\/67\">SysInternals installer<\/a> built by <a href=\"http:\/\/smithii.com\/\">Ross Smith II<\/a> that downloads them all (or the ones you select) and creates shortcuts for them for you.<\/p>\n<p>He also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/smithii.com\/?q=node\/view\/76\">similar utility<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/nirsoft.net\/\">NirSoft utilities<\/a>, which include excellent tools for recovering lost passwords and product keys. Watch out if you run Symantec AntiVirus, as it will suggest they are \"hack tools\".<\/p>\n<p>Another useful meta-utility is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubcd4win.com\/\">The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows<\/a>.  Built on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu2.nu\/pebuilder\/\">BartPE<\/a>, the free and legal Windows LiveCD builder (you must have a license for Windows to use it, and you must not use it on more than one PC at once), The Ultimate Boot CD builds you a bootable image with dozens of useful recovery utilities on it. Every sysadmin should have one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get all the SysInternals utilities? You can download them all yourself, or there's a really useful SysInternals installer built by Ross Smith II that downloads them all (or the ones you select) and creates shortcuts for them for you. He also has a similar utility for the NirSoft utilities, which include excellent tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,68],"tags":[27,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}