Windows Tools

ms tool list

• compmgmt.msc
• richcopy/robocopy
• wireshark
• the user
• eventvwr
• ncpa.cpl - network connnections
• cmd + r then shell:startup
• msinfo32
• the users business secrets
• msconfig, services, hide windows, disable any that aren't needed
• Control Panel, Security and Maintenance, Reliability History
• command to enable ping: netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow
• systempropertiesadvanced
• powercfg \Q (query sleep settings) (make sure fast startup is off)
• sysinternals autoruns - tells you where startup programs are (more than task manager) (idea: take a autoruns snapshot of the computer when you start managing it, and then if it becomes slow, compare / contrast the old & the new.)(there is a book on sysinternals, as well as a number of similar books on powershell, cmd prompt, and basic windows management of the same series of books). (you can also export to text and then do a diff before / after ref: youtube G_YlltkI2mA)
• ansible (haven't actually bothered to use this. i manage small networks, not large.) And there is an old joke that bash (cygwin if necessary) is more future proof anyway. Docker however, is good.

ref: https://superuser.com/questions/1600186/why-is-it-that-a-tool-like-sysinternals-autoruns-might-not-know-the-location-of

WIP