Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to show you how to install Windows
Speaker 1: ten on. We're actually going to use and involve Maestro
Speaker 1: laptop here, the twelve volt Evolve Maestro that several of
Speaker 1: us have talked about on separate YouTube channels. Frank blew
Speaker 1: one up that Mic owned at Winter Field Day last year.
Speaker 1: That was a big story into itsel if you can
Speaker 1: find that on their channels, We're going to take that.
Speaker 1: We're going to reimage it. We're going to set it
Speaker 1: up for an off grid, completely independent Windows ten. I'm
Speaker 1: going to show you how I do it. I'm going
Speaker 1: to show you where I got the idea, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to show you what specific programs, applications and how
Speaker 1: I arrange everything, what I use for Windows, which some
Speaker 1: of you don't like Windows, I get it. But this way,
Speaker 1: it's going to be completely off grid, and you're going
Speaker 1: to be innocent of updates. It's not going to require
Speaker 1: you to update or anything like that. And it's going
Speaker 1: to allow you to run a lot of the programs
Speaker 1: that only run in Windows that we want to use
Speaker 1: a ham radio, but we can't use on Linux, or
Speaker 1: at least maybe not as seamlessly on Linux. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you how to do it on show you
Speaker 1: a little bit about Linux two. Not the whole thing,
Speaker 1: but a little bit. So let's go. Let's take a
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Speaker 1: first off, I have to give a shout out to
Speaker 1: the tech Prepper. I got this idea from him. I
Speaker 1: got the idea for the video from him, which is
Speaker 1: to say that the whole off grid computer thing is
Speaker 1: something I've been researching for the last couple months. I'm
Speaker 1: actually in the process of building what they call a
Speaker 1: cyber deck. Okay, in a nutshell, all a cyber deck
Speaker 1: is is usually a Raspberry Pie in a hardened case
Speaker 1: with a screen that has USB ports and whatnot on it,
Speaker 1: that has a bunch of stuff downloaded on the hard
Speaker 1: drive so that you never have to plug the rasbi
Speaker 1: into the Internet and you can just use stuff. You
Speaker 1: can download all of Wikipedia. I've got that done. You
Speaker 1: can download all your hamm radio applications and get them
Speaker 1: installed on RESU, everything that'll work on Raspberry Pride, which
Speaker 1: is which is many many things. And then it's all independent.
Speaker 1: You don't have to plug into the internet, you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about updates, you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about tracking or viruses or whatever. It's just all independent.
Speaker 1: And it's installed in this little most of the time
Speaker 1: a hardened case. And then you just take it with
Speaker 1: you and plug it into your radio and you're you're
Speaker 1: totally off grid because radio communications are always off grid.
Speaker 1: So taking that too, I don't want to say the
Speaker 1: next level, it's not really the next level, but taking
Speaker 1: that to in another direction, put it like that. Gastone
Speaker 1: the tech Prepper, did a video a while back about
Speaker 1: how he took his Windows ten operating system off grid.
Speaker 1: A lot of the stuff that he runs is in
Speaker 1: Windows ten. A lot of the stuff that a lot
Speaker 1: of the ham radio applications only run in Windows. A
Speaker 1: lot of your Chinese programming software applications for the Chinese
Speaker 1: radios only run in Windows. Some of the more popular
Speaker 1: applications we like, like for instance, smart SDR from Flex Radio,
Speaker 1: will run in iOS and macOS, but it's made by
Speaker 1: a third party Flex Radio has an open API that
Speaker 1: they like. They let anyone write software. That API connects
Speaker 1: to their radios and you can control their radios with
Speaker 1: it no problem. But they write smart SDR for Windows themselves,
Speaker 1: which is free, and you just go download smart sdr
Speaker 1: and can use it with a Flex radio. The iOS
Speaker 1: and the Mac os version are written by a guy
Speaker 1: out of Germany, very good pieces of software, but you
Speaker 1: have to buy them and pay the guy in Germany,
Speaker 1: the developer who wrote them, so they're not free like
Speaker 1: the Windows application is free. So that's just one example,
Speaker 1: just one example. There's a lot of free software out
Speaker 1: there for Windows, a lot of free software out there
Speaker 1: for Rasbian or Debian or whatever flavor of Raspberry Pie
Speaker 1: we're running today, or whatever flavor of Mint Linux, Debian Linux,
Speaker 1: a Boontu Linux. You can get all of free applications
Speaker 1: for that as well, but specifically four Windows. I want
Speaker 1: to show you guys, how I'm going to set up
Speaker 1: this evolve mystro I've got it sitting on the overhead
Speaker 1: right here. Here. It is right here. I've actually got
Speaker 1: three of these things. This is not my main box.
Speaker 1: My main box is sitting in my Explore backpack of
Speaker 1: my my antenna bag, that my Explore backpack from Gigaparts.
Speaker 1: So that's that one's there, So we're not gonna touch
Speaker 1: the main one. This one here, I reimaged a while
Speaker 1: back because I was using it for something else, and
Speaker 1: guess what, it went into the boot loop. And I'm like, oh, really,
Speaker 1: you want to go into a boot loop, Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: You're getting your butt reimaged. And that's just how it is.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do that today. And I don't even
Speaker 1: know if it'll take the Windows image or not. So
Speaker 1: the first thing I'm gonna start out with this. This
Speaker 1: is a verbatim. It is a verbatim sixty four gig
Speaker 1: USB stick tough Max USB two point zero flash drive.
Speaker 1: So these things are pretty well. I mean, it's got
Speaker 1: six hundred and two four point five four point four
Speaker 1: out of five star reviews. Okay, it's made to be
Speaker 1: tough and durable and a little bit kind of better
Speaker 1: for the field use and whatnot. If you're gonna take
Speaker 1: it out, you're gonna beat it up, you're gonna put
Speaker 1: in your pocket, carried around and do it for stuff
Speaker 1: like that. We're gonna boot everything from this, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you how I can run either Windows or
Speaker 1: Linux from this specific USB device. And what I did
Speaker 1: was I bought two of these. So everything I did
Speaker 1: to this, I did, do a second one. Keep a
Speaker 1: second one at home or maybe in your vehicle somewhere
Speaker 1: locked away where you know where it is. That way,
Speaker 1: if this one gets corrupted or you just freaking lose it,
Speaker 1: then you know you've got a backup spare. So everything
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about today is gonna be backed up somewhere.
Speaker 1: Talk about that later. But Gastone used one called a
Speaker 1: Gorilla drive he talked about in his video. And when
Speaker 1: I saw his video, I went out and looked at
Speaker 1: the Amazon link he shared and the website to Gorilla Drive,
Speaker 1: and they are sold freaking out, like he completely destroyed.
Speaker 1: He completely destroyed Guerrilla Drives, sold them out of everything,
Speaker 1: and for the last couple of weeks they haven't had
Speaker 1: anything in stock at all. So I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're watching this video two or three or six
Speaker 1: months later, maybe that's not the case anymore. But very
Speaker 1: good job to gas Stone for completely selling that company
Speaker 1: out of their hard drives. It was funny. I thought
Speaker 1: that was funny. I don't know. I laugh at things
Speaker 1: like that. So we're gonna download a program called ven
Speaker 1: toy v N t O Y and we're going to
Speaker 1: flash that to this drive, which I've already actually done. Okay,
Speaker 1: what you do is you download a program called ven toy.
Speaker 1: It looks like this when you download it, you unzip
Speaker 1: it and you bring it up and it looks like
Speaker 1: this right here, and it automatically detected. You can see
Speaker 1: right there the e drive sixty four gigbyte verbatim tough Max. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I had plugged this stick into my streaming computer.
Speaker 1: This is my Windows box that we're completely online, updated
Speaker 1: and everything. I plugged this stick into a USB port,
Speaker 1: I launched vent Toy. It came up and it said, oh,
Speaker 1: you must want to install on this floor drive here,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yes, I do, that's correct, and you
Speaker 1: click install and you can see it. It took ventoy
Speaker 1: and package on the left and it put it on
Speaker 1: the right where it said ventoyan device version one dot
Speaker 1: zero dot ninety nine and it took like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: a few seconds. It was very fast. So now when
Speaker 1: I plug this in to my Evolve Maestro here This
Speaker 1: is the screen that comes up. This is what ventoy
Speaker 1: looks like. So I've got two ISOs downloaded. I've got
Speaker 1: Linux Miant twenty two Cinnamon sixty four bit, and I've
Speaker 1: got Windows ten twenty two M two English sixty four bit.
Speaker 1: These are the two os'. You can download an ISO
Speaker 1: of whatever operating system you want and load it onto
Speaker 1: this same drive, and then ventoy will see it and
Speaker 1: you can choose what operating system to install. So if
Speaker 1: you always want to run Linux, you can do it
Speaker 1: this way. If you want to run Linux in Grub
Speaker 1: two that has a bootloader, you can do it this way.
Speaker 1: That's one of the options on here. But today we're
Speaker 1: talking about running Windows ten and the way to run
Speaker 1: I will leave a line think in the description blow
Speaker 1: to Windows ten. The only way to download Windows ten
Speaker 1: is to do it from a browser that's not on Windows.
Speaker 1: In other words, if you want to do it from
Speaker 1: like a Raspberry Pie or a Linux box or a
Speaker 1: mac os box or something like that, it'll show you
Speaker 1: the ISO file to download. If you do it from
Speaker 1: a Windows box, it's going to say, oh, click here
Speaker 1: to update your system, you know, and it's not going
Speaker 1: to show you the ISO file to download. There's a
Speaker 1: way to get around that. I think if you put
Speaker 1: Chrome into like Android mode, it'll it'll show you the
Speaker 1: ISO file something like that. I just went and downloaded
Speaker 1: it from I actually downloaded on my Android phone. That's
Speaker 1: how I did it. I chose the link in that
Speaker 1: I will share with you in the description blow. I
Speaker 1: downloaded on my Android phone and then I plug my
Speaker 1: Android phone in my Windows box and I just drug
Speaker 1: it over. So it was it was no big deal
Speaker 1: to do it like that. But but yeah, Windows things,
Speaker 1: you want to update it if you go there from
Speaker 1: a Windows browser on a Windows operating system. But just FYI,
Speaker 1: so here it is right here. So this is Windows
Speaker 1: ten and I've gone through a few of these steps already,
Speaker 1: so I kind of know where this is going to go.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna take you guys around and show you
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. And you can choose in normal
Speaker 1: or whim boot mode. Now I had to look this up.
Speaker 1: Whim boot is the Windows mode refers to a feature
Speaker 1: that Windows allows a computer to boot directly from a
Speaker 1: compressed Windows image file wim Windows image file. It's made
Speaker 1: for smaller computers with smaller hard drives or tablets or
Speaker 1: phones or something like that. So this is what I'm
Speaker 1: going to choose today because this evolved Maestro laptop only
Speaker 1: has a sixty four gig hard drive, which is plenty
Speaker 1: to install Windows onto, because we're going to run almost
Speaker 1: everything on an external drive, which I'm gonna show you later.
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of my stuff, a lot of
Speaker 1: my programs, a lot of my apps, a lot of
Speaker 1: my files downloaded on an external drive. And that the
Speaker 1: whole idea of that came from a cyber deck that
Speaker 1: I'm building that I had mentioned earlier. So we're going
Speaker 1: to do a cyber deck build on another video. But
Speaker 1: today we're going to choose whim boot mode right there,
Speaker 1: and this should go pretty cool quick right here, because
Speaker 1: WINM boots a smaller version. If you were to choose
Speaker 1: normal mode right here, it might take a little bit
Speaker 1: longer depending on how fast your computer is, and this
Speaker 1: computer is not fast. This is not a fast computer
Speaker 1: at all. But we're gonna sit here and see how
Speaker 1: that goes. It took about like a minute or something
Speaker 1: like that. Beeen whim file All good there. The dreaded
Speaker 1: Windows symbol, the reason we use Windows is because a
Speaker 1: lot of your applications only run on Windows. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about some of those here in a little bit.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna go next and install now, and
Speaker 1: this part's gonna take probably I don't know, five to
Speaker 1: seven minutes something like that, because I tinkered with this
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier and ran parts of it, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to I didn't want to do the full
Speaker 1: install until you guys were watching. So here is the
Speaker 1: screen we're seeing now, and we're just gonna have to
Speaker 1: wait for it. Okay, that didn't take too long. Accept
Speaker 1: the terms. So there was a there was an in
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned earlier there was an install of
Speaker 1: Windows on this laptop, and I did a factory reset
Speaker 1: of it, and then it went into the boot loop.
Speaker 1: It kept it would boot up, it would come up
Speaker 1: and say do you want to install Windows TIM from
Speaker 1: a local file? And I click yes, and then it
Speaker 1: would kind of do something, then would reboot and come
Speaker 1: back to that same thing. So I want to wipe
Speaker 1: everything out. I don't want anything on this on this
Speaker 1: at all. And these are the petition partitions I was
Speaker 1: talking about earlier, and it's got some in here and
Speaker 1: We're just gonna I'm just gonna delete everything because I
Speaker 1: want to go. I want to do the whole thing again.
Speaker 1: I want to start fresh from scratch again. This is
Speaker 1: not my standard evolved Maestro laptop. This is a second
Speaker 1: evolved Maestro that I have. I actually have three of them.
Speaker 1: I have one that's still brand new in a box.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with that one yet.
Speaker 1: We might do a Linux, we might do a Mint
Speaker 1: Linux install on that one, but I'm gonna wipe everything out.
Speaker 1: This is the standard f disc. Some of you who
Speaker 1: have been in Windows for a while may recognize this.
Speaker 1: So we just nuked all the partitions. I've got fifty
Speaker 1: seven point seven gigabytes of free space. I'm gonna click
Speaker 1: on new, and I'm just gonna let it set the
Speaker 1: parameters there. It takes a second, not very long. Boom okay, good.
Speaker 1: So ninety five is for the ninety five megs is
Speaker 1: for the system, sixteen megs is for an MSR reserved
Speaker 1: Microsoft something record, and then fifty seven point five gigabytes
Speaker 1: is gonna be our primary and we're gonna click on next.
Speaker 1: That's where it's gonna install the operating system, and this
Speaker 1: part right here might take a few minutes I think
Speaker 1: about five to seven minutes something like that for these
Speaker 1: getting files ready, and then the last three shouldn't take
Speaker 1: long at all. We're just gonna wait for this to finish. Now,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something real quick, because it might
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Speaker 1: twelve percent over here. That's good. So I'm just going
Speaker 1: to kind of let it do its thing. So what
Speaker 1: do I mean by an off grid Windows off grid
Speaker 1: Windows ten system? So we're not once we get into
Speaker 1: these install files, it's going to ask us to connect
Speaker 1: to a network. We're not going to connect this thing
Speaker 1: to a network. We're not going to connect to the internet.
Speaker 1: We're not going to download files. I've got an application
Speaker 1: that's going to show us how to turn off Windows updates,
Speaker 1: so it's not going to ask us about that. You
Speaker 1: can remove a lot of the bloat where like the
Speaker 1: Quartana and some of the games and crap with this application.
Speaker 1: Is very cool application. I did get this one from
Speaker 1: Gastone as well, and I installed and ran this application
Speaker 1: on my new Panasonic tough Book that I just picked up.
Speaker 1: Works great, So we're going to install that here. But
Speaker 1: this is a laptop that we're never gonna have on
Speaker 1: the internet. This is going to be made to connect to.
Speaker 1: Put in your antenna backpack or your radio go bag
Speaker 1: or whatever whatever you've got to take out to the field,
Speaker 1: connect to a radio of some sort. VHF UHFHF something
Speaker 1: work HF FTA, JSA call, wind link something, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to work, you know, pick your poison here. I've
Speaker 1: got an external hard drive with a bunch of ham
Speaker 1: radio apps and a bunch of Windows apps, and a
Speaker 1: bunch of documents and whatnot downloaded. We're going to show
Speaker 1: you that here in a minute. And the idea for
Speaker 1: the external hard drive came from the cyber deck that
Speaker 1: I've been building. I downloaded all of Wikipedia, We've put
Speaker 1: it on there. This might be something I end up offering,
Speaker 1: like for sale at some point in time. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure yet. I might offer it for free to like
Speaker 1: some patren something. But I've spent several hours building this
Speaker 1: hard drive together, and with all of this compiled information,
Speaker 1: most of it's free. You can go out and compile
Speaker 1: it yourself. It may take you a few hours, and
Speaker 1: if you want to do that, then you know, more
Speaker 1: power to you. There's nothing spectacular about this. You can
Speaker 1: also download some YouTube videos something about how to program
Speaker 1: a certain radio, how to set up WSJTX or JSA
Speaker 1: call on a certain radio, how to set up this
Speaker 1: certain thing on a radio. Download that YouTube video and
Speaker 1: save it on your external hard drive for later reference.
Speaker 1: You can play it on your off grid Windows laptop.
Speaker 1: But the purpose of today is to take this Windows
Speaker 1: system and never and put it on a laptop that's
Speaker 1: a fresh install, like what we're doing, and it will
Speaker 1: never ever be connected to the internet. So this is
Speaker 1: not your working laptop that you're going to go check
Speaker 1: your email on every day. This is specifically made for
Speaker 1: your radio off grid comms in the field. All right,
Speaker 1: we're at eighty seven percent here. This shouldn't take too
Speaker 1: much longer. It's been about what three minutes or something
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know. Okay, that part of the
Speaker 1: video was sped up a little bit, but in reality
Speaker 1: it took like maybe four minutes, three to four minutes
Speaker 1: from when I clicked on installed for that to go
Speaker 1: that maybe five minute, three to five minutes something like that.
Speaker 1: And this is a slow laptop. This is not a faster,
Speaker 1: not a high performance laptop at all. So better higher performance,
Speaker 1: more RAM, better CPU laptop, you could definitely do better
Speaker 1: than that. So we're rebooting now. That took longer than
Speaker 1: it did the first time. I kind of tinkered with
Speaker 1: this a little bit before I went lot, before I
Speaker 1: connected the camera up in everything, and it didn't take
Speaker 1: that line. That took a good four or five minutes
Speaker 1: that time I stopped the camera decided to come back
Speaker 1: to it. So, but this is what you want to
Speaker 1: see again, This is the this is the Evolve Monstro laptop.
Speaker 1: You get what you get, So okay, United States. Next
Speaker 1: is gonna ask me for the keyboard layout. Also, plug
Speaker 1: the laptop in. I don't want it dying during my recording.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Is this the right right layout? Yes?
Speaker 1: Do you want to do that? No, I'm to skip that.
Speaker 1: Connect okay, so connect to a network. Like I said
Speaker 1: a minute ago, we are not connecting to a network.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this a little bit bigger so you
Speaker 1: can see it better. We're not gonna connect. We're never
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna connect this this laptop right here, I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna connect this to the internet, so we're not
Speaker 1: gonna have to worry about updates or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go here and uh, I don't have
Speaker 1: an I don't have internet right there, And it's gonna
Speaker 1: ask me, are you sure you don't want to connect
Speaker 1: the internet because of blah blah blah. Nope, connect limited setup.
Speaker 1: That's what that says. Connect with limited setup. Yes, they
Speaker 1: want you on the internet, so they can. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe they track you, maybe they don't, but they're not
Speaker 1: tracking if you're you're not online. I know that much.
Speaker 1: Uh security, Yeah, okay, so it's one set. I wish
Speaker 1: you could skip this part. But whatever. I don't care
Speaker 1: about security questions. I never use, even in a computer
Speaker 1: that is on the online all the time. I've never
Speaker 1: I've never used those. And this was not connecting to
Speaker 1: my Microsoft account, So I don't care. All right, this
Speaker 1: part right here, choose privacy settings now, I will even
Speaker 1: on where's mouse there? It is okay, Even on all
Speaker 1: of my Windows boxes where I do connect through the
Speaker 1: internet and I have streaming services and I have everything,
Speaker 1: I always turn these off. I never turn any of
Speaker 1: these on. I don't really know how much respect Microsoft
Speaker 1: has for these services. You know, you turn it off,
Speaker 1: find my device, you turn that off, location, turn that off.
Speaker 1: Are they still tracking you? It's very possible. It's very
Speaker 1: possible they are. I don't know, but I turn them
Speaker 1: off all the time anyway. So we're turning off for
Speaker 1: this one because it's not gonna be online anyway, so
Speaker 1: it's not gonna matter Quartana. I never I never turned
Speaker 1: this on either, not now. And I think the application
Speaker 1: we're about to look at that turns off Windows updates.
Speaker 1: I think you can disable Kurtana or maybe even an
Speaker 1: uninstall it with that application too, So more to come
Speaker 1: on that later. Let's see how long this part it's
Speaker 1: gonna take. Okay, this might take several minutes, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pause here and come back. Okay, that took maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, four or five minutes something like that.
Speaker 1: And now you can see right down here at the
Speaker 1: bottom right corner of the screen and the cistray, there's
Speaker 1: that little world that's right there. That means we don't
Speaker 1: have an Internet connection. We don't have a hard line.
Speaker 1: It would be in the shape of a monitor in
Speaker 1: the or the Wi Fi symbol. We don't have any
Speaker 1: of that. It's completely offline. Right now, I'm doing a
Speaker 1: screen capture on my recording computer here, but this one's
Speaker 1: totally offline. So it also came up and asked me
Speaker 1: if I wanted to install and configure Microsoft Edge. No,
Speaker 1: I don't want to configure Microsoft Edge. Too little, too
Speaker 1: late from Microsoft with Edge. Edge is based on Chromium,
Speaker 1: so it's supposed to be a lot better than Internet Explore,
Speaker 1: but in my opinion, Internet Exploor was the worst piece
Speaker 1: of software ever written by man. It was a total farce,
Speaker 1: a complete Swiss cheese. Back in, I hated Internet Explore.
Speaker 1: Every time someone would call when I worked used to
Speaker 1: work it support. Every time someone would call with virus
Speaker 1: or malware information, I'd be like, stop using the Internet Explore.
Speaker 1: That's going to solve sixty five percent of your problems,
Speaker 1: and then we'll clean everything off and get a real browser,
Speaker 1: not using Microsoft Browser. Do not want to use it.
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna use Firefox on this install. I like Chrome.
Speaker 1: I use Chrome mostly. There's a lot of Google monitors
Speaker 1: your crap Chrome stuff out there. But again, this one's
Speaker 1: never gonna be online. So do I care? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I really care that much or not.
Speaker 1: But right now we're gonna install Firefox on here. So
Speaker 1: earlier I mentioned about external hard drives, So what the
Speaker 1: deal is with this? So I had I know I
Speaker 1: had mentioned earlier that the cyber deck I was looking
Speaker 1: at building is basically it's a two terabyte drive. You
Speaker 1: can get bigger than that if you want to It's
Speaker 1: a two terabyte drive with Wikipedia downloaded, manuals for all
Speaker 1: of the radios that I have. It's got some some
Speaker 1: survivalist books, some handbooks, some fiction books, just for entertainment
Speaker 1: type stuff. Again, you can I said this earlier, you
Speaker 1: can download videos for instructional stuff that you can that
Speaker 1: you can download and watch and just put the put
Speaker 1: the video and it's hard form format on their local files.
Speaker 1: And it's got also it's got a lot of the
Speaker 1: applications that we use for ham radio already downloaded, so
Speaker 1: you can. I've got executables, you can install them. It's
Speaker 1: got all this stuff locally that you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: download and from the internet, but then you can save
Speaker 1: it on a hard drive and add it to another
Speaker 1: system later. So right now I'm gonna show you guys
Speaker 1: the hard drive that I've got. So this is a
Speaker 1: little too terabyte Western Digital sand disc hard drive. There's
Speaker 1: nothing special about it. It's just you know, you can
Speaker 1: get these off of Amazon or from Best Buy or
Speaker 1: something like that. So I'm gonna plug this in over
Speaker 1: here on the side. There we go. Let me get
Speaker 1: this open here, all right, my passport. That's just kind
Speaker 1: of what it's called right there. You can see the
Speaker 1: three partitions. I don't know why it kind of puked
Speaker 1: in the It created the CD and an E drive
Speaker 1: with the partitions from Ventoy. That's just kind of how
Speaker 1: Ventoy works. Okay, that's fine. And my passport. Now Here
Speaker 1: is the stuff that I have. I have Android APKs,
Speaker 1: I have app installs, epubs. I've got some books and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Some of them are like manuals for like off grid
Speaker 1: survival manuals, field manuals and whatnot. Some of them are
Speaker 1: just fiction books. I've got. When I say manuals, here,
Speaker 1: i've got manuals for radio manuals of like owners manuals
Speaker 1: for certain radio models that I own. These are the
Speaker 1: OS files, those two OS files, or the ISO files
Speaker 1: rather that I showed you at the beginning of this video.
Speaker 1: That's those two. I might put some more stuff in there.
Speaker 1: And then it's got all of Wikipedia in here, and
Speaker 1: it uses this program called keywix that will allow you
Speaker 1: to download Wikipedia and then save it as a local file.
Speaker 1: And there's like one hundred and sixty one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty something gigs worth of files for Wikipedia in there.
Speaker 1: So that's all that stuff. But what I like if
Speaker 1: I go in here to app installs and then again,
Speaker 1: I built all of this stuff. No, that's the wrong one.
Speaker 1: I built all of this stuff and I'm going to
Speaker 1: be adding to it over time. Any suggestions you guys
Speaker 1: have for more stuff I can add is appreciated. And
Speaker 1: this is so I've got Ham Radio. I can't see
Speaker 1: what that says. I've got Ham Radio and whatever that
Speaker 1: says there. And then I've got videos, so I've got
Speaker 1: on my video editing software files installed. And then I've
Speaker 1: got Windows. So these are my Windows files right here.
Speaker 1: Let me make that a little bit larger so I
Speaker 1: can see it. Okay, these are the Windows files that
Speaker 1: I have installed right now. I have Express VPN, which
Speaker 1: I use on my computers that are connected to the internet,
Speaker 1: but I have it downloaded here, and I can install
Speaker 1: this on a computer and connect Express VPN the very
Speaker 1: first time I get online. If I if I'm setting
Speaker 1: you up another computer, then I know I want to connect.
Speaker 1: I've got ExpressVPN. This is the one I've used for
Speaker 1: about a year and a half. I really like it.
Speaker 1: I've got the Firefox installer. I've got my office set up,
Speaker 1: which we're not going to install that here because it
Speaker 1: won't you know, it might work on a off grid computer.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I would. I would. If you
Speaker 1: want something like a word process or Excel spreadsheet, I
Speaker 1: would probably get Open Office instead of messing with the
Speaker 1: Microsoft stuff. I've got Putty, I've got Terra Copy, and
Speaker 1: there's Venoy right there, which talked about that earlier. I
Speaker 1: showed you Ventoy at the beginning of this video. It's
Speaker 1: hard to see the mouse because it's it's because I've
Speaker 1: got the windows zoomed them so far. And then there's VLC.
Speaker 1: So two of the programs that I install. Three of
Speaker 1: the programs that I install when I first put Windows
Speaker 1: on is Chrome or Firefox. If you want to do Firefox,
Speaker 1: that's fine too, Chrome or Firefox, something besides Microsoft Edge.
Speaker 1: Just ignore that stupid thing. Terra Copy, which is a
Speaker 1: very good program to copy files from one drive to another,
Speaker 1: copying larger files. It does, It does its own checks
Speaker 1: and whatnot. If you want to copy stuff to in
Speaker 1: from an external hard drive, terrat copy works well. You
Speaker 1: can do tear a move or Tarra copy, make copies
Speaker 1: of it. You can pause the move if it's going
Speaker 1: to take several hours and it's affecting your performance. You
Speaker 1: can pause it and you can restart it later. Very
Speaker 1: good program. Tarrat Copy been using that for years. The
Speaker 1: other one is VLC. VLC well, is just a video player.
Speaker 1: It'll play anything, anything at all. It's a free download.
Speaker 1: Both that Terra copy is free and VLC is three
Speaker 1: is free. Both of those are great programs. VLC plays
Speaker 1: all movies, of all formats, of all types, of all
Speaker 1: codex and everything. Back in the day you used to
Speaker 1: have to install special codecs to play an MP four
Speaker 1: or an h Dot two sixty four h Dot two
Speaker 1: sixty five MP four and all that kind of crap.
Speaker 1: VLC just plays everything. Never had a problem with it.
Speaker 1: But the one I'm gonna show you guys today that
Speaker 1: we're gonna probably end with today, the main one that
Speaker 1: we're gonna do here on today's video, I'm gonna install
Speaker 1: some more ham radio apps, but today we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna probably stop with this WU ten man installer. Now.
Speaker 1: I installed this on my new tough book that I
Speaker 1: just got like a month ago, and so far it
Speaker 1: is working great. So I'm gonna show you guys what
Speaker 1: it does. Real quick detour here. If we go up
Speaker 1: here back to Ham Radio. Of that second one says
Speaker 1: our pi. Okay, this's Raspberry Pie programs. Okay good. If
Speaker 1: we go up you're to Ham Radio. I'll show you
Speaker 1: guys what I have in my Ham Radio file. And
Speaker 1: this is not done. This is not done. This is
Speaker 1: what I have so far, So suggestions from the community
Speaker 1: are welcome. I've got Chirp Next and Chirp Legs. I've
Speaker 1: got Grid Tracker, hammers Pro soon, I'll have World Radio
Speaker 1: League's logging program if once it comes out with a
Speaker 1: standalone Windows version. I've got smart SDR for Flex Radio.
Speaker 1: I've got Vara Chat, Vara FM, Vara HF and Vara
Speaker 1: SAT and Vara Terminal. And then I've got wind Link
Speaker 1: Express and I've got WSJTX. Now these are all the
Speaker 1: versions that are current today. I downloaded all these within
Speaker 1: the last oh probably the last week or so something
Speaker 1: like that. So as time goes on, you're going to
Speaker 1: want to make sure you have the latest updates that
Speaker 1: you download to your hard drive on your computer that's
Speaker 1: on the internet, and take that hard drive out and
Speaker 1: plug it into the off grid computer and run an update.
Speaker 1: If you want to run an update. If you're like, man,
Speaker 1: this thing's working great, I don't want to mess with it,
Speaker 1: don't run the update. You're not going to be forced
Speaker 1: to because we're talking about an off grid computer system here.
Speaker 1: But this is the list of ham radio apps that
Speaker 1: I have right now that I will be installing on
Speaker 1: this lab. I'm not gonna install all of these. I
Speaker 1: probably will not install smart SDR actually, but I'm installed
Speaker 1: many of these on this laptop and we're gonna use
Speaker 1: it in the field on a PODA activation one of
Speaker 1: these days. But right now, here's where we're gonna end
Speaker 1: this video, and it's gonna take it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: few minutes to do this. This is the WU ten
Speaker 1: Man WU ten Man. However you want to say that installer.
Speaker 1: This will allow you to turn off Windows updates and
Speaker 1: install a lot of the bloat wear that comes in Windows.
Speaker 1: And this is a great program. This is another program
Speaker 1: idea that I got from Gastone. He talked about it,
Speaker 1: he didn't show it on that video, So I wanted
Speaker 1: to do a video where you actually showed it and
Speaker 1: saw what it looked like. So here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna install this right now, and I want to
Speaker 1: make sure that you guys can see this window, so
Speaker 1: makes you a little bit smaller. This won't take long
Speaker 1: at all. Default, it set up install, it's gonna say
Speaker 1: are you sure? Yes I am, and launch. Okay. So
Speaker 1: so that was it. It took like what a minute if that?
Speaker 1: And it pretty much asks you this every time it's
Speaker 1: making changes to the baseline operating system on this, so
Speaker 1: it's going to ask you about this, Uh, do you
Speaker 1: want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to
Speaker 1: make changes to your device? Microsoft says it's a known publisher,
Speaker 1: because why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they? Yeah, So all right,
Speaker 1: so we'll wait for that to come up. There we go.
Speaker 1: There it is right there. Okay, so let's yeah, let's
Speaker 1: zoom that. I couldn't remember how big that window was.
Speaker 1: Let's zoom that in a little bit. All right. Here
Speaker 1: is the options you have with this, okay, so Windows,
Speaker 1: so right here, Windows Update, and that's Windows Update Module, installer,
Speaker 1: the Update medic service, and Connected User Experience and telemetry. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we can those are all obviously they're all turned
Speaker 1: on by default, so we can disable all those services
Speaker 1: now the Windows modules and still let's see what else
Speaker 1: we could do. Okay, that's Windows Services. That's the tab
Speaker 1: at the top there. Let me make sure i've got yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I've got that whole thing in there. You can pause
Speaker 1: updates and if you don't want to turn off updates,
Speaker 1: you can pause updates. I just turned them off. So
Speaker 1: I turned off Windows updates on my laptop, and both
Speaker 1: of my desktops at home updated last week and my
Speaker 1: laptop did not. So so far, so good with this.
Speaker 1: This seems to be working just fine. So you can
Speaker 1: pause updates. If you just want to turn off updates
Speaker 1: for like a month or two, you don't want to
Speaker 1: jack with it, you can do that instead of turning
Speaker 1: turning them off. This one's in beta right now, but
Speaker 1: it's called declutter. This is a great There we go.
Speaker 1: You gotta love the e allve Maestro. Okay, so you
Speaker 1: can remove all of this junk, the three D viewer,
Speaker 1: advertising alarms, being weather, being wetther is a joke. I
Speaker 1: hate the being stuff that comes up with Microsoft Edge Calculator,
Speaker 1: camera communication apps, feedback Hub, get help, get started, Yeah,
Speaker 1: remove all that crap Maps Office Hub. One note I
Speaker 1: use one note, but this one's not going to connect
Speaker 1: to the internet, so I don't have any need for
Speaker 1: one note, paint, three D people photos, Skype, Solitaire, sticky notes,
Speaker 1: all the Xbox stuff. I've never used any of the
Speaker 1: Xbox stuff. I don't own an Xbox. If you have
Speaker 1: an Xbox, then great, leave it on there. Okay, but
Speaker 1: all of this, remove all, select all, remove checked apps,
Speaker 1: click there, okay, let that go. So all of that
Speaker 1: blow I have. You know, I've been working with Windows
Speaker 1: for more than fifteen years and it support, tech support
Speaker 1: at home, whatnot. You used to be able to do
Speaker 1: these on installs pretty easily, and like the Windows XP,
Speaker 1: Windows seven days okay once kind of like Windows two thousand. Well,
Speaker 1: Windows two thousand was easy, but like anything post anything
Speaker 1: after Windows seven, this has gotten a little bit harder.
Speaker 1: Windows ten. I've never seen a way to do this
Speaker 1: on Windows ten. There's probably some other ways out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But this stuff is this. This program
Speaker 1: is really cool that it will allow you to remove
Speaker 1: and disable all of this stuff. It makes it very easy,
Speaker 1: and it's a free program. I will put a link
Speaker 1: to it and everything else in the description below, and
Speaker 1: once again special thanks to Gastone the tech Prepper for
Speaker 1: telling me about this program. But I wanted to show
Speaker 1: you guys how to use it on this video. Okay,
Speaker 1: select and win those apps I've been removed. Good, those
Speaker 1: are gone, and then we can do beta scheduled tasks,
Speaker 1: do update orchestrator all of this crap, Windows updates, scheduled start,
Speaker 1: disable all tasks. So we disable all tasks and it'll
Speaker 1: just do that by itself. It was faster than this
Speaker 1: program worked faster than this on my tough pad or
Speaker 1: my tough book. Rather, this is just a slow laptop,
Speaker 1: so we gotta wait for it, and there we go.
Speaker 1: That took a couple of minutes. Scheduled tasks updated. Now
Speaker 1: what it probably is going to do is ask me
Speaker 1: to reboot, So let me zoom this window back again.
Speaker 1: So once I close this, I think it's going to
Speaker 1: ask me to reboot. It didn't, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: reboot it anyway. So we're gonna just reboot that. And
Speaker 1: now my wind system is not registered, not connected to
Speaker 1: the internet, the updates are turned off. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: scream at me if you notice. It never even asked
Speaker 1: for a registration key. So I wonder how long it's
Speaker 1: going to run without asking for that. Now there's an
Speaker 1: easy way to find a registration key on any box
Speaker 1: you have. You can run a program. I forget what
Speaker 1: the program is. I'll have to do some recent I've
Speaker 1: got it written down somewhere, but you can get a
Speaker 1: program that'll run and it'll find your registration key that's
Speaker 1: buried deep inside of the registry. So you can take
Speaker 1: your registration key that was on there before and uh
Speaker 1: and use it on this. But if you're never connected
Speaker 1: to the Internet, it's never going to verify or register
Speaker 1: or something like that. So I'll be curious to see
Speaker 1: how long it lasts before it starts squawking at me
Speaker 1: about the registration key. And if I put the registration
Speaker 1: key into it, is it gonna look at some internal
Speaker 1: database or some local database that it's I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know yet, So we're gonna see. But it's
Speaker 1: not gonna ask me for those updates. It's not going
Speaker 1: to get connected to the Internet. It's gonna just run
Speaker 1: Ham radio applications and we're gonna do another video with
Speaker 1: it on a PODA. I'd like to know what other
Speaker 1: applications besides the one I showed you guys earlier, What
Speaker 1: do you suggest? What else would you like me to
Speaker 1: add to this hard drive? If this hard drive here
Speaker 1: is something that you think I should continue putting together,
Speaker 1: continue adding to. If it's something you want to join
Speaker 1: effort project and you want to take part in it
Speaker 1: and we're gonna build some cyber decks with it, hit
Speaker 1: me up, put a comment, blow email me case five
Speaker 1: hwb at gmail dot com. Let me know what you
Speaker 1: think about this system. If you've got another system like it, Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a Linux system as well. We're totally
Speaker 1: going to do that. And I have a cyber deck
Speaker 1: I'm building which is a Raspberry Pie system. So thanks
Speaker 1: for watching today, guys. I hope you enjoyed the video.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit longer than normal, so thanks
Speaker 1: for sticking around today. In seventy three