Windows

Geneal

• http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

• Vistualisation: WebDev#Windows

• https://medium.com/@networksecurity/oleoutlook-bypass-almost-every-corporate-security-control-with-a-point-n-click-gui-37f4cbc107d0 [1]

• http://www.windows93.net/# [2]

News and articles

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/

• WSUS Offline Update

Installation

• https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB - a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501's WinUSB.

Lightweight / custom

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Environment - WindowsPE

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinBuilder

• http://nu2.nu/pebuilder
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BartPE

• http://reboot.pro/files/file/61-multipe/

Command-line

• http://commandwindows.com/
• http://ss64.com/nt/

• Clink - Powerful Bash-style command line editing for cmd.exe

• http://ask.metafilter.com/65101/How-to-SSHtelnet-into-Windows-command-line

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

• http://bliker.github.io/cmder/

• http://batsh.org/

• http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html?2

• http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/looking_forward_microsoft__support_for_secure_shell_ssh1/archive/2015/06/02/managing-looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh.aspx

• How bad is the Windows command line really? [3]

• Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY) [4]

Terminal

• https://code.google.com/p/mintty/

• http://cmder.net/

PowerShell

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
• Windows PowerShell - MS Library: Scripting
  • Scripting with Windows PowerShell

• https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/
• http://psget.net/

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573623/powershell-vs-unix-shells
• http://jbeckwith.com/2012/11/28/5-steps-to-a-better-windows-command-line/
• http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-cool-things-you-can-do-with-windows-powershell/302

• https://github.com/drmohundro/Find-String

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12313179

Babun

• https://babun.github.io/ [5]

Apps

• http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx

• http://www.howtogeek.com/198622/heres-what-happens-when-you-install-the-top-10-download.com-apps/ [6]

• https://www.getwox.com/ [7]

Installing / updates

Chocolatey

• Chocolatey - a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. To install chocolatey now, open an administrative cmd.exe command prompt and paste the text from the box below and press enter (or click ). For administrative PowerShell copy the second box () (Ensure Get-ExecutionPolicy is at least Bypass).

Boxstarter

• Boxstarter - Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages. When its time to repave either bare metal or virtualized instances, locally or on a remote machine, Boxstarter can automate both trivial and highly complex installations. Compatible with all Windows versions from Windows 7/2008 R2 forward.

Ninite

• Ninite - Install and Update All Your Programs at OnceNo toolbars. No clicking next. Just pick your apps and go.

Scoop

• Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows
  • https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop

Repos

• http://www.filehippo.com/
• http://portableapps.com/
• http://tinyapps.org/
• http://www.oldversion.com/

• http://finalbuilds.com/

• http://software.informer.com/

to sort

• http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf

• http://dropit.sourceforge.net/

• http://wiki.wincustomize.com/wiki/Winamp

• http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

• http://www.piriform.com/

• http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

• http://windirstat.info/

File manager

• http://www.ghisler.com/

• http://freecommander.com/

System

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

• https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config

• Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

• Autoruns - Manage software that runs on startup

File system

• https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/ZFSin - OpenZFS ports to Windows

Clean-up

• https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

• http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

• http://www.shouldiremoveit.com/

• http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

• Blackbird

Anti-virus

• http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx

• http://www.clamwin.com/ - adware atm

• https://github.com/vocatus/tron
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/
  • /r/sysadmin In honor the 4th of July, I present Tron, who "fights for the User" (automated disinfect/cleanup package)

Media

• http://www.cdburnerxp.se/en/home

• ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit! ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.

Audio

See Audio#Windows

• Boom - an easy to use audio player intended for casual computer users who do not wish to spend their time on figuring more sophisticated software out. All of its most important features are easily accessible out-of-the-box.

• https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream - a virtual device driver for Windows that provides a discrete sound device. Audio played through this device is published on your local network as a PCM multicast stream. Receivers on the network can pick up the stream and play it through their own audio outputs. Two simple servers for Linux (interfacing with PulseAudio or ALSA) and one for Windows are provided. Scream is based on Microsoft's MSVAD audio driver sample code. [8]

Graphics

• http://www.irfanview.com/

• http://www.getpaint.net/

Video

• http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

• http://www.mediacoderhq.com/

• http://camstudio.org/

• https://mpc-hc.org

Security

• http://www.gpg4win.org/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetico_Personal_Firewall

• http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm

• http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/

• http://hak5.org/usb-switchblade

• http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm

• http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/

• http://hak5.org/usb-switchblade

• https://www.glasswire.com/ [9]

Input

• http://www.autohotkey.com/
  • http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/44064-copy-on-select-implementation/

• http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/XMouse/

Joke

• Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens seen during a system boot.

• https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95 - This is Windows 95, running in an Electron app. Yes, it's the full thing. I'm sorry.

Shell

LiteStep

• http://litestep.net/
• http://lsdev.org/
• http://lsdev.org/bugs/view_all_bug_page.php
• http://lsp.litestep.info/

Classic Shell

• Classic Shell - free software that improves your productivity, enhances the usability of Windows and empowers you to use the computer the way you like it. The main features are: Highly customizable start menu with multiple styles and skins, Quick access to recent, frequently-used, or pinned programs, Find programs, settings, files and documents, Start button for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, Toolbar and status bar for Windows Explorer, Caption and status bar for Internet Explorer

BB

• http://blackbox4windows.com/

• http://blackbox4windows.com/index.php?/topic/123-mojmirs-build/

bug.n

• https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

i3

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12023437

API

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_API

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime - WinRT) is a platform-agnostic application architecture first introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in 2012. WinRT supports development in C++/CX (Component Extensions, a language based on C++), JavaScript-TypeScript, and the managed code languages C# and Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET). WinRT applications natively support both the x86 and ARM processors, and run inside a sandboxed environment to allow greater security and stability. WinRT components are designed with interoperability between multiple languages and APIs in mind, including native, managed and scripting languages.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Windows_Platform - a platform-homogeneous application architecture created by Microsoft and first introduced in Windows 10. The purpose of this software platform is to help develop universal apps that run on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One and Hololens without the need to be re-written for each. It supports Windows app development using C++, C#, VB.NET, and XAML. The API is implemented in C++, and supported in C++, VB.NET, C#, F# and JavaScript. Designed as an extension to the Windows Runtime platform first introduced in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, UWP allows developers to create apps that will potentially run on multiple types of devices.[

• midipix - a development environment that lets you create programs for Windows using the standard C and POSIX APIs. No compromises made, no shortcuts taken. If you are interested in cross-platform programming that reclaims the notion of write once, compile everywhere; if you believe that the 'standard' in the C Standard Library should not be a null signifier; and if you like cooking your code without #ifdef hell and low-level minutiae, then this page is for you. midipix makes cross-platform programming better, simpler and faster, specifically by bringing a modern, conforming C Runtime Library to the Windows platform. While the idea itself is not new, the approach taken in midipix to code portability is radically different from that found in other projects.

Drivers

• http://phyxion.net/item/driver-sweeper.html

• http://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/

• http://www.codecguide.com/
• http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

USB

• SMBus controller not recognized by Windows

Network

Configuration

%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\
  hosts file

• http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-hosts-file/

• http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/ - wifi channels

SSH/SCP

• http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

• http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

• http://kitty.9bis.net/ - putty fork [10]
  • http://www.fosshub.com/KiTTY.html

Internet Explorer

• Utilu IE Collection contains multiple standalone versions of the browser Internet Explorer, which can be used at the same time.

Utilu IE Collection contains the following versions of IE: Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.308) Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10) Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.01.046) Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152) Internet Explorer 3.01 (3.01.2723) Internet Explorer 3.03 (3.03.2925) Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0) Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100) Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300) Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106) Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180) Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.00.5730.13) Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702)

Server

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_Essentials

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Lync_Server

Graphics

• http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/2013/07/15/windows-8-1-dpi-scaling-enhancements.aspx

• WineD3D For Windows - a DirectX 1-11 to OpenGL wrapper based on WineD3D, which is an almost full implementation of DirectX used in Wine.Even if Windows supports DirectX natively, using WineD3D can enhance backwards compatiblity with older games, especially on Windows 8 and newer that don't support 16 bit screen modes. Another possible use is to emulate unsupported versions of DirectX, or porting DirectX applications to OpenGL without having to rewrite the rendering code.Please note that WineD3D is far from perfect, and many games will not work.

Remote access

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol

Port 3389

• How to change the listening port for Remote Desktop

Alternative

• http://www.reactos.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS

*nix

• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview/

• https://brianreiter.org/2010/08/24/the-sad-history-of-the-microsoft-posix-subsystem/[11]

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13695255

• http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html?m=1 [12]

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12234735

• http://www.cygwin.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin

• http://x.cygwin.com/
• http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

• Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient NSIS installer that installs over 100 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 18 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run well over 100 MB depending upon options.
  • https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki [13]

• http://www.mingw.org
  • http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW - (Minimalist GNU for Windows), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment for creating Microsoft Windows applications. It includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager), a set of freely distributable Windows specific header files and static import libraries which enable the use of the Windows API, a Windows native build of the GNU Project's GNU Debugger, and miscellaneous utilities.

• MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.

We wanted a package management system to provide easy installation of packages, and ported Arch Linux's Pacman. This brings many powerful features such as dependency resolution and simple complete system upgrades, as well as providing the build system - makepkg{,-mingw} - which is used to make these packages. [14]

• ntfsfix - fix common errors and force Windows to check NTFS

• Ext2Fsd Project - Open source ext3/4 file system driver for Windows (2K/XP/WIN7/WIN8)

• Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software. In its current condition, it allows us to run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows (see Screenshots).

• LBW is a Linux system call translator for Windows. It allows you to run unmodified Linux applications on top of Windows. It is not virtualisation; only one operating system is running, which is Windows. It is not emulation; Linux applications run directly on the processor, resulting in (theoretically) full native performance. Consider it as being like WINE, but in reverse. Right now LBW is in a proof-of-concept stage. It's in no way suitable for doing real work on as it's full of bugs. On the other hand it's adequate for running a Debian chroot, downloading and installing packages with apt and dpkg, compiling and running programs with gcc, connecting to remote servers with ssh, and even running some basic X applications.

• Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

• https://github.com/DDoSolitary/LxRunOffline - An offline installer for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

• WLinux | A Linux distro optimized for WSL based on Debian. - A Linux distro optimized for WSL based on Debian.

• https://github.com/alwsl/alwsl - Install archlinux as the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) host.

. Unmaintained.

• https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

Theme

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 - XFCE / Xubuntu Windows 95 Total Conversion

IoT

• Windows 10 IoT Core Official Website

• El Reg: A good effort, if a bit odd: Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi 2

Scripts

• http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/wf0as/am_i_wrong_in_doing_this_lol/

Troubleshooting

• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679 - msvcr100.dll missing, reboot?

win7+

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