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Windows To Go – Some tips and an odd boot problem (error code: 0xc000000e)

Windows To Go is a great new feature in Windows 8 that allows you to boot a full-blown Windows...
My_7PE is a batch script that allows you to create a Windows 7-based Windows PE 3.0 boot CD or...
Regedit as offline Registry editor

In this article you will learn how to use Windows tool regedit as an offline registry editor. All you...
Free unzip software – 7-Zip portable

7-zip is probably the most popular free unzip software even though IZArc might be a better zip utilty. I...
Free Windows Error Reporting (WER) viewing tool – AppCrashView

In my last post, I described how you can view the Windows Error Reporting (.wer) files through the Action...
Free launcher for portable applications – NirLauncher

NirLauncher is a free launcher from NirSoft that allows you to start portable applications from a USB drive. The...
FREE: NTPWEdit – Reset Windows 7 password

If you boot from a Windows PE stick or DVD you can use the free tool NTPWEdit to access...
FREE: Autoruns – Manage Windows startup programs

Microsoft's Sysinternals Autoruns is a free portable tool that allows you to manage Windows startup programs. It is certainly...
Create a bootable Windows PE 3.0 USB drive with rescue tools – Part 2

Update: There is now an easier way to create Windows PE boot media and add your own rescue tools....
FREE: Raw Copy – Create a raw image to rescue data from a hard drive

It appears to me that hard disks are more reliable than in former times. However, hard drives still crash....
Create a bootable Windows PE 3.0 USB drive with rescue tools – Part 1

Learn how to create a bootable Windows PE 3.0 USB drive. First you you create the bootable USB stick,...
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT) is unable to copy files

This post explains why the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT) is unable to copy the install files to...
FREE: UBCD4Win – Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, a comprehensive rescue tool

A few days ago, I blogged about BartPE, a well known tool for creating a Windows PE based rescue...
FREE: BartPE – A Windows PE-based rescue platform

I was quite surprised when I checked the 4sysops list of free admin tools lately and found that BartPE...
How to recover a non-bootable Windows installation – The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset

The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (MSDaRT or DaRT) is tool set to recover Windows which is only available...
FREE: AdapterWatch – Comprehensive info about network adapters

AdapterWatch is a standalone tool that can help troubleshoot network problems. It displays all the information you can think...
Windows PE 2.0 new features

I think, only a few administrators have worked with Windows PE (Pre Environment) yet. This might change when Windows...