WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.720 Today, I'm going to show you how to install Windows 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:05.519 ten on. We're actually going to use and involve Maestro 3 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:10.000 laptop here, the twelve volt Evolve Maestro that several of 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.320 us have talked about on separate YouTube channels. Frank blew 5 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.199 one up that Mic owned at Winter Field Day last year. 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.839 That was a big story into itsel if you can 7 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:20.079 find that on their channels, We're going to take that. 8 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:21.879 We're going to reimage it. We're going to set it 9 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:26.920 up for an off grid, completely independent Windows ten. I'm 10 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:28.800 going to show you how I do it. I'm going 11 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:30.839 to show you where I got the idea, and I'm 12 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.600 going to show you what specific programs, applications and how 13 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.119 I arrange everything, what I use for Windows, which some 14 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.439 of you don't like Windows, I get it. But this way, 15 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.479 it's going to be completely off grid, and you're going 16 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.240 to be innocent of updates. It's not going to require 17 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:49.759 you to update or anything like that. And it's going 18 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:51.359 to allow you to run a lot of the programs 19 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:53.759 that only run in Windows that we want to use 20 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.280 a ham radio, but we can't use on Linux, or 21 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:01.960 at least maybe not as seamlessly on Linux. But I'm 22 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:03.759 gonna show you how to do it on show you 23 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:05.760 a little bit about Linux two. Not the whole thing, 24 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:07.319 but a little bit. So let's go. Let's take a 25 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:13.519 loot this today's video is sponsored by ham dot Live. 26 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:17.680 Take your ham radio net to the next level by 27 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:20.200 setting it up on ham dot live and sharing it 28 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.599 out with your audience and letting them follow along with you. 29 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:25.680 Check out ham dot live link in the description below. Okay, 30 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:27.560 first off, I have to give a shout out to 31 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.439 the tech Prepper. I got this idea from him. I 32 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:35.159 got the idea for the video from him, which is 33 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:38.000 to say that the whole off grid computer thing is 34 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.040 something I've been researching for the last couple months. I'm 35 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:42.000 actually in the process of building what they call a 36 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:45.840 cyber deck. Okay, in a nutshell, all a cyber deck 37 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.680 is is usually a Raspberry Pie in a hardened case 38 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.799 with a screen that has USB ports and whatnot on it, 39 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.079 that has a bunch of stuff downloaded on the hard 40 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.480 drive so that you never have to plug the rasbi 41 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:03.400 into the Internet and you can just use stuff. You 42 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.480 can download all of Wikipedia. I've got that done. You 43 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:08.919 can download all your hamm radio applications and get them 44 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.520 installed on RESU, everything that'll work on Raspberry Pride, which 45 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.159 is which is many many things. And then it's all independent. 46 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:15.759 You don't have to plug into the internet, you don't 47 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:17.240 have to worry about updates, you don't have to worry 48 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:23.680 about tracking or viruses or whatever. It's just all independent. 49 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.439 And it's installed in this little most of the time 50 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.000 a hardened case. And then you just take it with 51 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:30.759 you and plug it into your radio and you're you're 52 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.800 totally off grid because radio communications are always off grid. 53 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.919 So taking that too, I don't want to say the 54 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:38.840 next level, it's not really the next level, but taking 55 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:42.360 that to in another direction, put it like that. Gastone 56 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.159 the tech Prepper, did a video a while back about 57 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.520 how he took his Windows ten operating system off grid. 58 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:50.879 A lot of the stuff that he runs is in 59 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.120 Windows ten. A lot of the stuff that a lot 60 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:56.919 of the ham radio applications only run in Windows. A 61 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:00.360 lot of your Chinese programming software applications for the Chinese 62 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.639 radios only run in Windows. Some of the more popular 63 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:08.120 applications we like, like for instance, smart SDR from Flex Radio, 64 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.599 will run in iOS and macOS, but it's made by 65 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:15.000 a third party Flex Radio has an open API that 66 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:18.520 they like. They let anyone write software. That API connects 67 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.280 to their radios and you can control their radios with 68 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:25.120 it no problem. But they write smart SDR for Windows themselves, 69 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:29.039 which is free, and you just go download smart sdr 70 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.759 and can use it with a Flex radio. The iOS 71 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.840 and the Mac os version are written by a guy 72 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:36.479 out of Germany, very good pieces of software, but you 73 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.319 have to buy them and pay the guy in Germany, 74 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:41.840 the developer who wrote them, so they're not free like 75 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:45.400 the Windows application is free. So that's just one example, 76 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.759 just one example. There's a lot of free software out 77 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:49.439 there for Windows, a lot of free software out there 78 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:54.199 for Rasbian or Debian or whatever flavor of Raspberry Pie 79 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.199 we're running today, or whatever flavor of Mint Linux, Debian Linux, 80 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.000 a Boontu Linux. You can get all of free applications 81 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:06.240 for that as well, but specifically four Windows. I want 82 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.199 to show you guys, how I'm going to set up 83 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:11.319 this evolve mystro I've got it sitting on the overhead 84 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:13.520 right here. Here. It is right here. I've actually got 85 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.360 three of these things. This is not my main box. 86 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.399 My main box is sitting in my Explore backpack of 87 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:24.000 my my antenna bag, that my Explore backpack from Gigaparts. 88 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:25.600 So that's that one's there, So we're not gonna touch 89 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.519 the main one. This one here, I reimaged a while 90 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:30.639 back because I was using it for something else, and 91 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:33.160 guess what, it went into the boot loop. And I'm like, oh, really, 92 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.600 you want to go into a boot loop, Well, guess what, 93 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.519 You're getting your butt reimaged. And that's just how it is. 94 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:41.680 So we're gonna do that today. And I don't even 95 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.720 know if it'll take the Windows image or not. So 96 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:45.759 the first thing I'm gonna start out with this. This 97 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:50.480 is a verbatim. It is a verbatim sixty four gig 98 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.199 USB stick tough Max USB two point zero flash drive. 99 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:58.399 So these things are pretty well. I mean, it's got 100 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.519 six hundred and two four point five four point four 101 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:03.319 out of five star reviews. Okay, it's made to be 102 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:07.720 tough and durable and a little bit kind of better 103 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:11.199 for the field use and whatnot. If you're gonna take 104 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:12.759 it out, you're gonna beat it up, you're gonna put 105 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:14.560 in your pocket, carried around and do it for stuff 106 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:16.759 like that. We're gonna boot everything from this, and I'm 107 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:20.519 gonna show you how I can run either Windows or 108 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:25.279 Linux from this specific USB device. And what I did 109 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:27.519 was I bought two of these. So everything I did 110 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.399 to this, I did, do a second one. Keep a 111 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:32.120 second one at home or maybe in your vehicle somewhere 112 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:33.839 locked away where you know where it is. That way, 113 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.199 if this one gets corrupted or you just freaking lose it, 114 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:38.680 then you know you've got a backup spare. So everything 115 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:41.839 we're gonna talk about today is gonna be backed up somewhere. 116 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.959 Talk about that later. But Gastone used one called a 117 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.759 Gorilla drive he talked about in his video. And when 118 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:50.680 I saw his video, I went out and looked at 119 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.680 the Amazon link he shared and the website to Gorilla Drive, 120 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:57.680 and they are sold freaking out, like he completely destroyed. 121 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.319 He completely destroyed Guerrilla Drives, sold them out of everything, 122 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.120 and for the last couple of weeks they haven't had 123 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:05.720 anything in stock at all. So I don't know, you know, 124 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:07.560 if you're watching this video two or three or six 125 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:11.360 months later, maybe that's not the case anymore. But very 126 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:13.800 good job to gas Stone for completely selling that company 127 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.000 out of their hard drives. It was funny. I thought 128 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:17.920 that was funny. I don't know. I laugh at things 129 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:21.399 like that. So we're gonna download a program called ven 130 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:25.000 toy v N t O Y and we're going to 131 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:29.319 flash that to this drive, which I've already actually done. Okay, 132 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:31.959 what you do is you download a program called ven toy. 133 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:35.199 It looks like this when you download it, you unzip 134 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:38.040 it and you bring it up and it looks like 135 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.000 this right here, and it automatically detected. You can see 136 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:44.720 right there the e drive sixty four gigbyte verbatim tough Max. Okay, 137 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:49.040 So I had plugged this stick into my streaming computer. 138 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.920 This is my Windows box that we're completely online, updated 139 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.800 and everything. I plugged this stick into a USB port, 140 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:58.560 I launched vent Toy. It came up and it said, oh, 141 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.720 you must want to install on this floor drive here, 142 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.040 and I'm like, yes, I do, that's correct, and you 143 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:06.879 click install and you can see it. It took ventoy 144 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:09.160 and package on the left and it put it on 145 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:11.879 the right where it said ventoyan device version one dot 146 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.839 zero dot ninety nine and it took like, I don't know, 147 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.920 a few seconds. It was very fast. So now when 148 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:21.480 I plug this in to my Evolve Maestro here This 149 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:24.959 is the screen that comes up. This is what ventoy 150 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:27.839 looks like. So I've got two ISOs downloaded. I've got 151 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:31.279 Linux Miant twenty two Cinnamon sixty four bit, and I've 152 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.839 got Windows ten twenty two M two English sixty four bit. 153 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:37.560 These are the two os'. You can download an ISO 154 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.720 of whatever operating system you want and load it onto 155 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.240 this same drive, and then ventoy will see it and 156 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.759 you can choose what operating system to install. So if 157 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:48.720 you always want to run Linux, you can do it 158 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.120 this way. If you want to run Linux in Grub 159 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:53.959 two that has a bootloader, you can do it this way. 160 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:56.000 That's one of the options on here. But today we're 161 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:59.199 talking about running Windows ten and the way to run 162 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:01.279 I will leave a line think in the description blow 163 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:03.920 to Windows ten. The only way to download Windows ten 164 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:08.639 is to do it from a browser that's not on Windows. 165 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:10.279 In other words, if you want to do it from 166 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:14.040 like a Raspberry Pie or a Linux box or a 167 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:16.079 mac os box or something like that, it'll show you 168 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:18.639 the ISO file to download. If you do it from 169 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.639 a Windows box, it's going to say, oh, click here 170 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:23.519 to update your system, you know, and it's not going 171 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:26.000 to show you the ISO file to download. There's a 172 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:27.480 way to get around that. I think if you put 173 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:30.800 Chrome into like Android mode, it'll it'll show you the 174 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.440 ISO file something like that. I just went and downloaded 175 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.200 it from I actually downloaded on my Android phone. That's 176 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:38.480 how I did it. I chose the link in that 177 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:40.320 I will share with you in the description blow. I 178 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:42.480 downloaded on my Android phone and then I plug my 179 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:44.360 Android phone in my Windows box and I just drug 180 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:46.399 it over. So it was it was no big deal 181 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:48.960 to do it like that. But but yeah, Windows things, 182 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:50.759 you want to update it if you go there from 183 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.200 a Windows browser on a Windows operating system. But just FYI, 184 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:56.240 so here it is right here. So this is Windows 185 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.399 ten and I've gone through a few of these steps already, 186 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:00.240 so I kind of know where this is going to go. 187 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:02.840 And I'm gonna take you guys around and show you 188 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:05.440 what I'm gonna do. And you can choose in normal 189 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.879 or whim boot mode. Now I had to look this up. 190 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:11.519 Whim boot is the Windows mode refers to a feature 191 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:13.759 that Windows allows a computer to boot directly from a 192 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:17.399 compressed Windows image file wim Windows image file. It's made 193 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:21.240 for smaller computers with smaller hard drives or tablets or 194 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:24.799 phones or something like that. So this is what I'm 195 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.480 going to choose today because this evolved Maestro laptop only 196 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.080 has a sixty four gig hard drive, which is plenty 197 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:34.720 to install Windows onto, because we're going to run almost 198 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.360 everything on an external drive, which I'm gonna show you later. 199 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:39.279 I've got a lot of my stuff, a lot of 200 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.000 my programs, a lot of my apps, a lot of 201 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.360 my files downloaded on an external drive. And that the 202 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:47.240 whole idea of that came from a cyber deck that 203 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.480 I'm building that I had mentioned earlier. So we're going 204 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.320 to do a cyber deck build on another video. But 205 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:57.879 today we're going to choose whim boot mode right there, 206 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.200 and this should go pretty cool quick right here, because 207 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.120 WINM boots a smaller version. If you were to choose 208 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:05.879 normal mode right here, it might take a little bit 209 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.720 longer depending on how fast your computer is, and this 210 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.039 computer is not fast. This is not a fast computer 211 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:13.320 at all. But we're gonna sit here and see how 212 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.080 that goes. It took about like a minute or something 213 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.960 like that. Beeen whim file All good there. The dreaded 214 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:24.799 Windows symbol, the reason we use Windows is because a 215 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.720 lot of your applications only run on Windows. We're going 216 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.360 to talk about some of those here in a little bit. 217 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:33.799 All right, we're gonna go next and install now, and 218 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.799 this part's gonna take probably I don't know, five to 219 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:39.679 seven minutes something like that, because I tinkered with this 220 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.600 a little bit earlier and ran parts of it, but 221 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:43.960 I wanted to I didn't want to do the full 222 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:48.679 install until you guys were watching. So here is the 223 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:51.279 screen we're seeing now, and we're just gonna have to 224 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.799 wait for it. Okay, that didn't take too long. Accept 225 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:59.840 the terms. So there was a there was an in 226 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:02.799 I think I mentioned earlier there was an install of 227 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.840 Windows on this laptop, and I did a factory reset 228 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.120 of it, and then it went into the boot loop. 229 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.120 It kept it would boot up, it would come up 230 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:12.799 and say do you want to install Windows TIM from 231 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:14.919 a local file? And I click yes, and then it 232 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:17.080 would kind of do something, then would reboot and come 233 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:19.080 back to that same thing. So I want to wipe 234 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:21.639 everything out. I don't want anything on this on this 235 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.600 at all. And these are the petition partitions I was 236 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.960 talking about earlier, and it's got some in here and 237 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.559 We're just gonna I'm just gonna delete everything because I 238 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.039 want to go. I want to do the whole thing again. 239 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.879 I want to start fresh from scratch again. This is 240 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:40.759 not my standard evolved Maestro laptop. This is a second 241 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.279 evolved Maestro that I have. I actually have three of them. 242 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:44.879 I have one that's still brand new in a box. 243 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:46.840 I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with that one yet. 244 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.720 We might do a Linux, we might do a Mint 245 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:53.240 Linux install on that one, but I'm gonna wipe everything out. 246 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:55.799 This is the standard f disc. Some of you who 247 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.360 have been in Windows for a while may recognize this. 248 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.120 So we just nuked all the partitions. I've got fifty 249 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:03.759 seven point seven gigabytes of free space. I'm gonna click 250 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.240 on new, and I'm just gonna let it set the 251 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.559 parameters there. It takes a second, not very long. Boom okay, good. 252 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:14.639 So ninety five is for the ninety five megs is 253 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:17.919 for the system, sixteen megs is for an MSR reserved 254 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.320 Microsoft something record, and then fifty seven point five gigabytes 255 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.840 is gonna be our primary and we're gonna click on next. 256 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:27.799 That's where it's gonna install the operating system, and this 257 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:31.080 part right here might take a few minutes I think 258 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.159 about five to seven minutes something like that for these 259 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.799 getting files ready, and then the last three shouldn't take 260 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:38.080 long at all. We're just gonna wait for this to finish. Now, 261 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:41.120 let me tell you something real quick, because it might 262 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:45.159 seem counterproductive, but today's video is sponsored by ham dot 263 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:47.639 Live is sponsored by a website for an off grade 264 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:51.039 computer that we're building. Okay, if you're doing a net, 265 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:54.879 check out ham dot live as a free netlogger. Create 266 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:56.559 your net, name it whatever you want to send a 267 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:59.279 link to the people you want to check in on 268 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.360 the net, club members, friends, whatever, have them go to 269 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:04.519 the net and you can check in on the net 270 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.080 or check in over the air. If you're doing a 271 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:09.440 digital net like a a system Fusion or DMR or 272 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:12.080 even an All Star net something over the Internet, you 273 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.080 can share links to it and just get a more 274 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.600 expanded capability on your net. You can do some Internet 275 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:21.679 keyboard to keyboard chatting about the net and expand the 276 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:23.960 net a little bit farther that way. So check out 277 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.919 hannot Live and if you talk to those guys, tell 278 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.360 them thank you for sponsoring this video. Okay, we're at 279 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:32.000 twelve percent over here. That's good. So I'm just going 280 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:33.960 to kind of let it do its thing. So what 281 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.639 do I mean by an off grid Windows off grid 282 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.200 Windows ten system? So we're not once we get into 283 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:42.600 these install files, it's going to ask us to connect 284 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.000 to a network. We're not going to connect this thing 285 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:47.000 to a network. We're not going to connect to the internet. 286 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.679 We're not going to download files. I've got an application 287 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:51.960 that's going to show us how to turn off Windows updates, 288 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.080 so it's not going to ask us about that. You 289 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.320 can remove a lot of the bloat where like the 290 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:59.080 Quartana and some of the games and crap with this application. 291 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:01.559 Is very cool application. I did get this one from 292 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:05.080 Gastone as well, and I installed and ran this application 293 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:08.480 on my new Panasonic tough Book that I just picked up. 294 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.600 Works great, So we're going to install that here. But 295 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.360 this is a laptop that we're never gonna have on 296 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:16.879 the internet. This is going to be made to connect to. 297 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.879 Put in your antenna backpack or your radio go bag 298 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.879 or whatever whatever you've got to take out to the field, 299 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:28.360 connect to a radio of some sort. VHF UHFHF something 300 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:35.039 work HF FTA, JSA call, wind link something, whatever you 301 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.679 want to work, you know, pick your poison here. I've 302 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:39.960 got an external hard drive with a bunch of ham 303 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:41.799 radio apps and a bunch of Windows apps, and a 304 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.320 bunch of documents and whatnot downloaded. We're going to show 305 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:47.000 you that here in a minute. And the idea for 306 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:49.120 the external hard drive came from the cyber deck that 307 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:52.000 I've been building. I downloaded all of Wikipedia, We've put 308 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:55.000 it on there. This might be something I end up offering, 309 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:57.120 like for sale at some point in time. I'm not 310 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.440 sure yet. I might offer it for free to like 311 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:03.320 some patren something. But I've spent several hours building this 312 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.440 hard drive together, and with all of this compiled information, 313 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:08.759 most of it's free. You can go out and compile 314 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:10.559 it yourself. It may take you a few hours, and 315 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:12.039 if you want to do that, then you know, more 316 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.279 power to you. There's nothing spectacular about this. You can 317 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.879 also download some YouTube videos something about how to program 318 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:22.799 a certain radio, how to set up WSJTX or JSA 319 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:24.440 call on a certain radio, how to set up this 320 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:27.200 certain thing on a radio. Download that YouTube video and 321 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.679 save it on your external hard drive for later reference. 322 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.399 You can play it on your off grid Windows laptop. 323 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.639 But the purpose of today is to take this Windows 324 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:37.360 system and never and put it on a laptop that's 325 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:40.159 a fresh install, like what we're doing, and it will 326 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:42.600 never ever be connected to the internet. So this is 327 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.559 not your working laptop that you're going to go check 328 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:48.120 your email on every day. This is specifically made for 329 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.879 your radio off grid comms in the field. All right, 330 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:54.480 we're at eighty seven percent here. This shouldn't take too 331 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:56.840 much longer. It's been about what three minutes or something 332 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:02.720 like that. I don't know. Okay, that part of the 333 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:04.879 video was sped up a little bit, but in reality 334 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:08.039 it took like maybe four minutes, three to four minutes 335 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:11.000 from when I clicked on installed for that to go 336 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.159 that maybe five minute, three to five minutes something like that. 337 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.240 And this is a slow laptop. This is not a faster, 338 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:20.559 not a high performance laptop at all. So better higher performance, 339 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:23.600 more RAM, better CPU laptop, you could definitely do better 340 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:26.559 than that. So we're rebooting now. That took longer than 341 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:28.080 it did the first time. I kind of tinkered with 342 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:29.679 this a little bit before I went lot, before I 343 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.600 connected the camera up in everything, and it didn't take 344 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.559 that line. That took a good four or five minutes 345 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.960 that time I stopped the camera decided to come back 346 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.840 to it. So, but this is what you want to 347 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:41.799 see again, This is the this is the Evolve Monstro laptop. 348 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.360 You get what you get, So okay, United States. Next 349 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.039 is gonna ask me for the keyboard layout. Also, plug 350 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:50.320 the laptop in. I don't want it dying during my recording. 351 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:53.559 Here we go. Is this the right right layout? Yes? 352 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:55.240 Do you want to do that? No, I'm to skip that. 353 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.159 Connect okay, so connect to a network. Like I said 354 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:01.360 a minute ago, we are not connecting to a network. 355 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:02.799 I'm gonna make this a little bit bigger so you 356 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.519 can see it better. We're not gonna connect. We're never 357 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:10.200 I'm never gonna connect this this laptop right here, I'm 358 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.319 never gonna connect this to the internet, so we're not 359 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.200 gonna have to worry about updates or anything like that. 360 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.960 So we're gonna go here and uh, I don't have 361 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:22.240 an I don't have internet right there, And it's gonna 362 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:23.839 ask me, are you sure you don't want to connect 363 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.880 the internet because of blah blah blah. Nope, connect limited setup. 364 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:30.839 That's what that says. Connect with limited setup. Yes, they 365 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.079 want you on the internet, so they can. I don't know. 366 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.559 Maybe they track you, maybe they don't, but they're not 367 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:37.759 tracking if you're you're not online. I know that much. 368 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.960 Uh security, Yeah, okay, so it's one set. I wish 369 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.319 you could skip this part. But whatever. I don't care 370 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:47.440 about security questions. I never use, even in a computer 371 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:49.960 that is on the online all the time. I've never 372 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.680 I've never used those. And this was not connecting to 373 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:54.640 my Microsoft account, So I don't care. All right, this 374 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:58.799 part right here, choose privacy settings now, I will even 375 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:02.039 on where's mouse there? It is okay, Even on all 376 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:06.000 of my Windows boxes where I do connect through the 377 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.160 internet and I have streaming services and I have everything, 378 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.920 I always turn these off. I never turn any of 379 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:15.000 these on. I don't really know how much respect Microsoft 380 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.759 has for these services. You know, you turn it off, 381 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:20.240 find my device, you turn that off, location, turn that off. 382 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.079 Are they still tracking you? It's very possible. It's very 383 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:24.920 possible they are. I don't know, but I turn them 384 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:26.640 off all the time anyway. So we're turning off for 385 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:28.680 this one because it's not gonna be online anyway, so 386 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.759 it's not gonna matter Quartana. I never I never turned 387 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:35.279 this on either, not now. And I think the application 388 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:37.880 we're about to look at that turns off Windows updates. 389 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:39.839 I think you can disable Kurtana or maybe even an 390 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:43.400 uninstall it with that application too, So more to come 391 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.240 on that later. Let's see how long this part it's 392 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:49.799 gonna take. Okay, this might take several minutes, so I'm 393 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:52.960 gonna pause here and come back. Okay, that took maybe 394 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:54.920 I don't know, four or five minutes something like that. 395 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:56.960 And now you can see right down here at the 396 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.799 bottom right corner of the screen and the cistray, there's 397 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:03.680 that little world that's right there. That means we don't 398 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.720 have an Internet connection. We don't have a hard line. 399 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:07.759 It would be in the shape of a monitor in 400 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:09.480 the or the Wi Fi symbol. We don't have any 401 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:13.319