E1498: OFF-GRID Windows 10 Laptop Setup for Radio Comms

going to show you how I do it. I'm going to show you where I got the idea, and I'm going to show you what specific programs, applications and how I arrange everything, what I use for Windows, which some of you don't like Windows, I get it. But this way, it's going to be completely off grid, and you're going to be innocent of updates. It's not going to require

you to update or anything like that. And it's going to allow you to run a lot of the programs that only run in Windows that we want to use a ham radio, but we can't use on Linux, or at least maybe not as seamlessly on Linux. But I'm gonna show you how to do it on show you a little bit about Linux two. Not the whole thing, but a little bit. So let's go. Let's take a loot this today's video is sponsored by ham dot Live.

Take your ham radio net to the next level by setting it up on ham dot live and sharing it out with your audience and letting them follow along with you. Check out ham dot live link in the description below. Okay, first off, I have to give a shout out to the tech Prepper. I got this idea from him. I got the idea for the video from him, which is to say that the whole off grid computer thing is

something I've been researching for the last couple months. I'm actually in the process of building what they call a cyber deck. Okay, in a nutshell, all a cyber deck is is usually a Raspberry Pie in a hardened case with a screen that has USB ports and whatnot on it, that has a bunch of stuff downloaded on the hard drive so that you never have to plug the rasbi into the Internet and you can just use stuff. You

can download all of Wikipedia. I've got that done. You can download all your hamm radio applications and get them installed on RESU, everything that'll work on Raspberry Pride, which is which is many many things. And then it's all independent. You don't have to plug into the internet, you don't have to worry about updates, you don't have to worry about tracking or viruses or whatever. It's just all independent. And it's installed in this little most of the time

a hardened case. And then you just take it with you and plug it into your radio and you're you're totally off grid because radio communications are always off grid. So taking that too, I don't want to say the next level, it's not really the next level, but taking that to in another direction, put it like that. Gastone the tech Prepper, did a video a while back about how he took his Windows ten operating system off grid. A lot of the stuff that he runs is in

Windows ten. A lot of the stuff that a lot of the ham radio applications only run in Windows. A lot of your Chinese programming software applications for the Chinese radios only run in Windows. Some of the more popular applications we like, like for instance, smart SDR from Flex Radio, will run in iOS and macOS, but it's made by a third party Flex Radio has an open API that they like. They let anyone write software. That API connects to their radios and you can control their radios with

it no problem. But they write smart SDR for Windows themselves, which is free, and you just go download smart sdr and can use it with a Flex radio. The iOS and the Mac os version are written by a guy out of Germany, very good pieces of software, but you have to buy them and pay the guy in Germany, the developer who wrote them, so they're not free like the Windows application is free. So that's just one example,

just one example. There's a lot of free software out there for Windows, a lot of free software out there for Rasbian or Debian or whatever flavor of Raspberry Pie we're running today, or whatever flavor of Mint Linux, Debian Linux, a Boontu Linux. You can get all of free applications for that as well, but specifically four Windows. I want to show you guys, how I'm going to set up this evolve mystro I've got it sitting on the overhead right here. Here. It is right here. I've actually got

three of these things. This is not my main box. My main box is sitting in my Explore backpack of my my antenna bag, that my Explore backpack from Gigaparts. So that's that one's there, So we're not gonna touch the main one. This one here, I reimaged a while back because I was using it for something else, and guess what, it went into the boot loop. And I'm like, oh, really, you want to go into a boot loop, Well, guess what, You're getting your butt reimaged. And that's just how it is.

So we're gonna do that today. And I don't even know if it'll take the Windows image or not. So the first thing I'm gonna start out with this. This is a verbatim. It is a verbatim sixty four gig USB stick tough Max USB two point zero flash drive. So these things are pretty well. I mean, it's got six hundred and two four point five four point four out of five star reviews. Okay, it's made to be tough and durable and a little bit kind of better

for the field use and whatnot. If you're gonna take it out, you're gonna beat it up, you're gonna put in your pocket, carried around and do it for stuff like that. We're gonna boot everything from this, and I'm gonna show you how I can run either Windows or Linux from this specific USB device. And what I did was I bought two of these. So everything I did to this, I did, do a second one. Keep a second one at home or maybe in your vehicle somewhere

locked away where you know where it is. That way, if this one gets corrupted or you just freaking lose it, then you know you've got a backup spare. So everything we're gonna talk about today is gonna be backed up somewhere. Talk about that later. But Gastone used one called a Gorilla drive he talked about in his video. And when I saw his video, I went out and looked at the Amazon link he shared and the website to Gorilla Drive, and they are sold freaking out, like he completely destroyed.

He completely destroyed Guerrilla Drives, sold them out of everything, and for the last couple of weeks they haven't had anything in stock at all. So I don't know, you know, if you're watching this video two or three or six months later, maybe that's not the case anymore. But very good job to gas Stone for completely selling that company out of their hard drives. It was funny. I thought that was funny. I don't know. I laugh at things

like that. So we're gonna download a program called ven toy v N t O Y and we're going to flash that to this drive, which I've already actually done. Okay, what you do is you download a program called ven toy. It looks like this when you download it, you unzip it and you bring it up and it looks like this right here, and it automatically detected. You can see right there the e drive sixty four gigbyte verbatim tough Max. Okay, So I had plugged this stick into my streaming computer.

This is my Windows box that we're completely online, updated and everything. I plugged this stick into a USB port, I launched vent Toy. It came up and it said, oh, you must want to install on this floor drive here, and I'm like, yes, I do, that's correct, and you click install and you can see it. It took ventoy and package on the left and it put it on the right where it said ventoyan device version one dot zero dot ninety nine and it took like, I don't know,

a few seconds. It was very fast. So now when I plug this in to my Evolve Maestro here This is the screen that comes up. This is what ventoy looks like. So I've got two ISOs downloaded. I've got Linux Miant twenty two Cinnamon sixty four bit, and I've got Windows ten twenty two M two English sixty four bit. These are the two os'. You can download an ISO of whatever operating system you want and load it onto this same drive, and then ventoy will see it and

you can choose what operating system to install. So if you always want to run Linux, you can do it this way. If you want to run Linux in Grub two that has a bootloader, you can do it this way. That's one of the options on here. But today we're talking about running Windows ten and the way to run I will leave a line think in the description blow to Windows ten. The only way to download Windows ten is to do it from a browser that's not on Windows.

In other words, if you want to do it from like a Raspberry Pie or a Linux box or a mac os box or something like that, it'll show you the ISO file to download. If you do it from a Windows box, it's going to say, oh, click here to update your system, you know, and it's not going to show you the ISO file to download. There's a way to get around that. I think if you put Chrome into like Android mode, it'll it'll show you the ISO file something like that. I just went and downloaded

it from I actually downloaded on my Android phone. That's how I did it. I chose the link in that I will share with you in the description blow. I downloaded on my Android phone and then I plug my Android phone in my Windows box and I just drug it over. So it was it was no big deal to do it like that. But but yeah, Windows things, you want to update it if you go there from a Windows browser on a Windows operating system. But just FYI,

so here it is right here. So this is Windows ten and I've gone through a few of these steps already, so I kind of know where this is going to go. And I'm gonna take you guys around and show you what I'm gonna do. And you can choose in normal or whim boot mode. Now I had to look this up. Whim boot is the Windows mode refers to a feature that Windows allows a computer to boot directly from a

compressed Windows image file wim Windows image file. It's made for smaller computers with smaller hard drives or tablets or phones or something like that. So this is what I'm going to choose today because this evolved Maestro laptop only has a sixty four gig hard drive, which is plenty to install Windows onto, because we're going to run almost everything on an external drive, which I'm gonna show you later. I've got a lot of my stuff, a lot of my programs, a lot of my apps, a lot of

my files downloaded on an external drive. And that the whole idea of that came from a cyber deck that I'm building that I had mentioned earlier. So we're going to do a cyber deck build on another video. But today we're going to choose whim boot mode right there, and this should go pretty cool quick right here, because WINM boots a smaller version. If you were to choose normal mode right here, it might take a little bit longer depending on how fast your computer is, and this

computer is not fast. This is not a fast computer at all. But we're gonna sit here and see how that goes. It took about like a minute or something like that. Beeen whim file All good there. The dreaded Windows symbol, the reason we use Windows is because a lot of your applications only run on Windows. We're going to talk about some of those here in a little bit.

All right, we're gonna go next and install now, and this part's gonna take probably I don't know, five to seven minutes something like that, because I tinkered with this a little bit earlier and ran parts of it, but I wanted to I didn't want to do the full install until you guys were watching. So here is the screen we're seeing now, and we're just gonna have to wait for it. Okay, that didn't take too long. Accept

the terms. So there was a there was an in I think I mentioned earlier there was an install of Windows on this laptop, and I did a factory reset of it, and then it went into the boot loop. It kept it would boot up, it would come up and say do you want to install Windows TIM from a local file? And I click yes, and then it would kind of do something, then would reboot and come back to that same thing. So I want to wipe everything out. I don't want anything on this on this

at all. And these are the petition partitions I was talking about earlier, and it's got some in here and We're just gonna I'm just gonna delete everything because I want to go. I want to do the whole thing again. I want to start fresh from scratch again. This is not my standard evolved Maestro laptop. This is a second evolved Maestro that I have. I actually have three of them. I have one that's still brand new in a box. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with that one yet.

We might do a Linux, we might do a Mint Linux install on that one, but I'm gonna wipe everything out. This is the standard f disc. Some of you who have been in Windows for a while may recognize this. So we just nuked all the partitions. I've got fifty seven point seven gigabytes of free space. I'm gonna click on new, and I'm just gonna let it set the parameters there. It takes a second, not very long. Boom okay, good.

So ninety five is for the ninety five megs is for the system, sixteen megs is for an MSR reserved Microsoft something record, and then fifty seven point five gigabytes is gonna be our primary and we're gonna click on next. That's where it's gonna install the operating system, and this part right here might take a few minutes I think about five to seven minutes something like that for these getting files ready, and then the last three shouldn't take

long at all. We're just gonna wait for this to finish. Now, let me tell you something real quick, because it might seem counterproductive, but today's video is sponsored by ham dot Live is sponsored by a website for an off grade computer that we're building. Okay, if you're doing a net,

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expanded capability on your net. You can do some Internet keyboard to keyboard chatting about the net and expand the net a little bit farther that way. So check out hannot Live and if you talk to those guys, tell them thank you for sponsoring this video. Okay, we're at twelve percent over here. That's good. So I'm just going to kind of let it do its thing. So what do I mean by an off grid Windows off grid

Windows ten system? So we're not once we get into these install files, it's going to ask us to connect to a network. We're not going to connect this thing to a network. We're not going to connect to the internet. We're not going to download files. I've got an application that's going to show us how to turn off Windows updates, so it's not going to ask us about that. You can remove a lot of the bloat where like the Quartana and some of the games and crap with this application.

Is very cool application. I did get this one from Gastone as well, and I installed and ran this application on my new Panasonic tough Book that I just picked up. Works great, So we're going to install that here. But this is a laptop that we're never gonna have on the internet. This is going to be made to connect to. Put in your antenna backpack or your radio go bag or whatever whatever you've got to take out to the field,

connect to a radio of some sort. VHF UHFHF something work HF FTA, JSA call, wind link something, whatever you want to work, you know, pick your poison here. I've got an external hard drive with a bunch of ham radio apps and a bunch of Windows apps, and a bunch of documents and whatnot downloaded. We're going to show you that here in a minute. And the idea for the external hard drive came from the cyber deck that I've been building. I downloaded all of Wikipedia, We've put

it on there. This might be something I end up offering, like for sale at some point in time. I'm not sure yet. I might offer it for free to like some patren something. But I've spent several hours building this hard drive together, and with all of this compiled information, most of it's free. You can go out and compile it yourself. It may take you a few hours, and if you want to do that, then you know, more

power to you. There's nothing spectacular about this. You can also download some YouTube videos something about how to program a certain radio, how to set up WSJTX or JSA call on a certain radio, how to set up this certain thing on a radio. Download that YouTube video and save it on your external hard drive for later reference. You can play it on your off grid Windows laptop.

But the purpose of today is to take this Windows system and never and put it on a laptop that's a fresh install, like what we're doing, and it will never ever be connected to the internet. So this is not your working laptop that you're going to go check your email on every day. This is specifically made for your radio off grid comms in the field. All right, we're at eighty seven percent here. This shouldn't take too much longer. It's been about what three minutes or something

like that. I don't know. Okay, that part of the video was sped up a little bit, but in reality it took like maybe four minutes, three to four minutes from when I clicked on installed for that to go that maybe five minute, three to five minutes something like that. And this is a slow laptop. This is not a faster, not a high performance laptop at all. So better higher performance, more RAM, better CPU laptop, you could definitely do better than that. So we're rebooting now. That took longer than

it did the first time. I kind of tinkered with this a little bit before I went lot, before I connected the camera up in everything, and it didn't take that line. That took a good four or five minutes that time I stopped the camera decided to come back to it. So, but this is what you want to see again, This is the this is the Evolve Monstro laptop. You get what you get, So okay, United States. Next is gonna ask me for the keyboard layout. Also, plug

the laptop in. I don't want it dying during my recording. Here we go. Is this the right right layout? Yes? Do you want to do that? No, I'm to skip that. Connect okay, so connect to a network. Like I said a minute ago, we are not connecting to a network. I'm gonna make this a little bit bigger so you

can see it better. We're not gonna connect. We're never I'm never gonna connect this this laptop right here, I'm never gonna connect this to the internet, so we're not gonna have to worry about updates or anything like that. So we're gonna go here and uh, I don't have an I don't have internet right there, And it's gonna ask me, are you sure you don't want to connect the internet because of blah blah blah. Nope, connect limited setup. That's what that says. Connect with limited setup. Yes, they

want you on the internet, so they can. I don't know. Maybe they track you, maybe they don't, but they're not tracking if you're you're not online. I know that much. Uh security, Yeah, okay, so it's one set. I wish you could skip this part. But whatever. I don't care about security questions. I never use, even in a computer that is on the online all the time. I've never I've never used those. And this was not connecting to

my Microsoft account, So I don't care. All right, this part right here, choose privacy settings now, I will even on where's mouse there? It is okay, Even on all of my Windows boxes where I do connect through the internet and I have streaming services and I have everything, I always turn these off. I never turn any of these on. I don't really know how much respect Microsoft has for these services. You know, you turn it off, find my device, you turn that off, location, turn that off.

Are they still tracking you? It's very possible. It's very possible they are. I don't know, but I turn them off all the time anyway. So we're turning off for this one because it's not gonna be online anyway, so it's not gonna matter Quartana. I never I never turned this on either, not now. And I think the application we're about to look at that turns off Windows updates. I think you can disable Kurtana or maybe even an uninstall it with that application too, So more to come

on that later. Let's see how long this part it's gonna take. Okay, this might take several minutes, so I'm gonna pause here and come back. Okay, that took maybe I don't know, four or five minutes something like that. And now you can see right down here at the bottom right corner of the screen and the cistray, there's that little world that's right there. That means we don't have an Internet connection. We don't have a hard line. It would be in the shape of a monitor in

the or the Wi Fi symbol. We don't have any of that. It's completely offline. Right now, I'm doing a screen capture on my recording computer here, but this one's totally offline. So it also came up and asked me if I wanted to install and configure Microsoft Edge. No, I don't want to configure Microsoft Edge. Too little, too late from Microsoft with Edge. Edge is based on Chromium, so it's supposed to be a lot better than Internet Explore, but in my opinion, Internet Exploor was the worst piece

of software ever written by man. It was a total farce, a complete Swiss cheese. Back in, I hated Internet Explore. Every time someone would call when I worked used to work it support. Every time someone would call with virus or malware information, I'd be like, stop using the Internet Explore. That's going to solve sixty five percent of your problems, and then we'll clean everything off and get a real browser, not using Microsoft Browser. Do not want to use it.

I'm probably gonna use Firefox on this install. I like Chrome. I use Chrome mostly. There's a lot of Google monitors your crap Chrome stuff out there. But again, this one's never gonna be online. So do I care? I don't know. I don't know if I really care that much or not. But right now we're gonna install Firefox on here. So earlier I mentioned about external hard drives, So what the deal is with this? So I had I know I had mentioned earlier that the cyber deck I was looking

at building is basically it's a two terabyte drive. You can get bigger than that if you want to It's a two terabyte drive with Wikipedia downloaded, manuals for all of the radios that I have. It's got some some survivalist books, some handbooks, some fiction books, just for entertainment

type stuff. Again, you can I said this earlier, you can download videos for instructional stuff that you can that you can download and watch and just put the put the video and it's hard form format on their local files. And it's got also it's got a lot of the applications that we use for ham radio already downloaded, so

you can. I've got executables, you can install them. It's got all this stuff locally that you're gonna have to download and from the internet, but then you can save it on a hard drive and add it to another system later. So right now I'm gonna show you guys the hard drive that I've got. So this is a little too terabyte Western Digital sand disc hard drive. There's nothing special about it. It's just you know, you can get these off of Amazon or from Best Buy or

something like that. So I'm gonna plug this in over here on the side. There we go. Let me get this open here, all right, my passport. That's just kind of what it's called right there. You can see the three partitions. I don't know why it kind of puked in the It created the CD and an E drive with the partitions from Ventoy. That's just kind of how Ventoy works. Okay, that's fine. And my passport. Now Here is the stuff that I have. I have Android APKs,

I have app installs, epubs. I've got some books and whatnot. Some of them are like manuals for like off grid survival manuals, field manuals and whatnot. Some of them are just fiction books. I've got. When I say manuals, here, i've got manuals for radio manuals of like owners manuals for certain radio models that I own. These are the OS files, those two OS files, or the ISO files rather that I showed you at the beginning of this video. That's those two. I might put some more stuff in there.

And then it's got all of Wikipedia in here, and it uses this program called keywix that will allow you to download Wikipedia and then save it as a local file. And there's like one hundred and sixty one hundred and eighty something gigs worth of files for Wikipedia in there. So that's all that stuff. But what I like if I go in here to app installs and then again, I built all of this stuff. No, that's the wrong one. I built all of this stuff and I'm going to

be adding to it over time. Any suggestions you guys have for more stuff I can add is appreciated. And this is so I've got Ham Radio. I can't see what that says. I've got Ham Radio and whatever that says there. And then I've got videos, so I've got on my video editing software files installed. And then I've got Windows. So these are my Windows files right here. Let me make that a little bit larger so I can see it. Okay, these are the Windows files that

I have installed right now. I have Express VPN, which I use on my computers that are connected to the internet, but I have it downloaded here, and I can install this on a computer and connect Express VPN the very first time I get online. If I if I'm setting you up another computer, then I know I want to connect. I've got ExpressVPN. This is the one I've used for about a year and a half. I really like it.

I've got the Firefox installer. I've got my office set up, which we're not going to install that here because it won't you know, it might work on a off grid computer. I don't know, but I would. I would. If you want something like a word process or Excel spreadsheet, I would probably get Open Office instead of messing with the Microsoft stuff. I've got Putty, I've got Terra Copy, and there's Venoy right there, which talked about that earlier. I

showed you Ventoy at the beginning of this video. It's hard to see the mouse because it's it's because I've got the windows zoomed them so far. And then there's VLC. So two of the programs that I install. Three of the programs that I install when I first put Windows on is Chrome or Firefox. If you want to do Firefox, that's fine too, Chrome or Firefox, something besides Microsoft Edge.

Just ignore that stupid thing. Terra Copy, which is a very good program to copy files from one drive to another, copying larger files. It does, It does its own checks and whatnot. If you want to copy stuff to in from an external hard drive, terrat copy works well. You can do tear a move or Tarra copy, make copies of it. You can pause the move if it's going to take several hours and it's affecting your performance. You can pause it and you can restart it later. Very

good program. Tarrat Copy been using that for years. The other one is VLC. VLC well, is just a video player. It'll play anything, anything at all. It's a free download. Both that Terra copy is free and VLC is three is free. Both of those are great programs. VLC plays all movies, of all formats, of all types, of all codex and everything. Back in the day you used to have to install special codecs to play an MP four or an h Dot two sixty four h Dot two sixty five MP four and all that kind of crap.

VLC just plays everything. Never had a problem with it. But the one I'm gonna show you guys today that we're gonna probably end with today, the main one that we're gonna do here on today's video, I'm gonna install some more ham radio apps, but today we're gonna we're gonna probably stop with this WU ten man installer. Now. I installed this on my new tough book that I just got like a month ago, and so far it is working great. So I'm gonna show you guys what

it does. Real quick detour here. If we go up here back to Ham Radio. Of that second one says our pi. Okay, this's Raspberry Pie programs. Okay good. If we go up you're to Ham Radio. I'll show you guys what I have in my Ham Radio file. And this is not done. This is not done. This is what I have so far, So suggestions from the community

are welcome. I've got Chirp Next and Chirp Legs. I've got Grid Tracker, hammers Pro soon, I'll have World Radio League's logging program if once it comes out with a standalone Windows version. I've got smart SDR for Flex Radio. I've got Vara Chat, Vara FM, Vara HF and Vara SAT and Vara Terminal. And then I've got wind Link Express and I've got WSJTX. Now these are all the versions that are current today. I downloaded all these within the last oh probably the last week or so something

like that. So as time goes on, you're going to want to make sure you have the latest updates that you download to your hard drive on your computer that's on the internet, and take that hard drive out and plug it into the off grid computer and run an update. If you want to run an update. If you're like, man, this thing's working great, I don't want to mess with it, don't run the update. You're not going to be forced to because we're talking about an off grid computer system here.

But this is the list of ham radio apps that I have right now that I will be installing on this lab. I'm not gonna install all of these. I probably will not install smart SDR actually, but I'm installed many of these on this laptop and we're gonna use it in the field on a PODA activation one of these days. But right now, here's where we're gonna end this video, and it's gonna take it's gonna take a few minutes to do this. This is the WU ten Man WU ten Man. However you want to say that installer.

This will allow you to turn off Windows updates and install a lot of the bloat wear that comes in Windows. And this is a great program. This is another program idea that I got from Gastone. He talked about it, he didn't show it on that video, So I wanted to do a video where you actually showed it and saw what it looked like. So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna install this right now, and I want to make sure that you guys can see this window, so

makes you a little bit smaller. This won't take long at all. Default, it set up install, it's gonna say are you sure? Yes I am, and launch. Okay. So so that was it. It took like what a minute if that? And it pretty much asks you this every time it's making changes to the baseline operating system on this, so it's going to ask you about this, Uh, do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device? Microsoft says it's a known publisher,

because why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they? Yeah, So all right, so we'll wait for that to come up. There we go. There it is right there. Okay, so let's yeah, let's zoom that. I couldn't remember how big that window was. Let's zoom that in a little bit. All right. Here is the options you have with this, okay, so Windows, so right here, Windows Update, and that's Windows Update Module, installer,

the Update medic service, and Connected User Experience and telemetry. Okay, so we can those are all obviously they're all turned on by default, so we can disable all those services now the Windows modules and still let's see what else we could do. Okay, that's Windows Services. That's the tab at the top there. Let me make sure i've got yeah, okay, I've got that whole thing in there. You can pause updates and if you don't want to turn off updates,

you can pause updates. I just turned them off. So I turned off Windows updates on my laptop, and both of my desktops at home updated last week and my laptop did not. So so far, so good with this. This seems to be working just fine. So you can pause updates. If you just want to turn off updates for like a month or two, you don't want to jack with it, you can do that instead of turning turning them off. This one's in beta right now, but it's called declutter. This is a great There we go.

You gotta love the e allve Maestro. Okay, so you can remove all of this junk, the three D viewer, advertising alarms, being weather, being wetther is a joke. I hate the being stuff that comes up with Microsoft Edge Calculator, camera communication apps, feedback Hub, get help, get started, Yeah,

remove all that crap Maps Office Hub. One note I use one note, but this one's not going to connect to the internet, so I don't have any need for one note, paint, three D people photos, Skype, Solitaire, sticky notes, all the Xbox stuff. I've never used any of the Xbox stuff. I don't own an Xbox. If you have an Xbox, then great, leave it on there. Okay, but all of this, remove all, select all, remove checked apps, click there, okay, let that go. So all of that

blow I have. You know, I've been working with Windows for more than fifteen years and it support, tech support at home, whatnot. You used to be able to do these on installs pretty easily, and like the Windows XP, Windows seven days okay once kind of like Windows two thousand. Well, Windows two thousand was easy, but like anything post anything after Windows seven, this has gotten a little bit harder. Windows ten. I've never seen a way to do this

on Windows ten. There's probably some other ways out there. I don't know, But this stuff is this. This program is really cool that it will allow you to remove and disable all of this stuff. It makes it very easy, and it's a free program. I will put a link to it and everything else in the description below, and once again special thanks to Gastone the tech Prepper for telling me about this program. But I wanted to show you guys how to use it on this video. Okay,

select and win those apps I've been removed. Good, those are gone, and then we can do beta scheduled tasks, do update orchestrator all of this crap, Windows updates, scheduled start, disable all tasks. So we disable all tasks and it'll just do that by itself. It was faster than this program worked faster than this on my tough pad or my tough book. Rather, this is just a slow laptop, so we gotta wait for it, and there we go.

That took a couple of minutes. Scheduled tasks updated. Now what it probably is going to do is ask me to reboot, So let me zoom this window back again. So once I close this, I think it's going to ask me to reboot. It didn't, but I'm going to reboot it anyway. So we're gonna just reboot that. And now my wind system is not registered, not connected to the internet, the updates are turned off. It's not gonna scream at me if you notice. It never even asked

for a registration key. So I wonder how long it's going to run without asking for that. Now there's an easy way to find a registration key on any box you have. You can run a program. I forget what the program is. I'll have to do some recent I've got it written down somewhere, but you can get a program that'll run and it'll find your registration key that's buried deep inside of the registry. So you can take your registration key that was on there before and uh

and use it on this. But if you're never connected to the Internet, it's never going to verify or register or something like that. So I'll be curious to see how long it lasts before it starts squawking at me about the registration key. And if I put the registration key into it, is it gonna look at some internal database or some local database that it's I don't know. I don't know yet, So we're gonna see. But it's not gonna ask me for those updates. It's not going

to get connected to the Internet. It's gonna just run Ham radio applications and we're gonna do another video with it on a PODA. I'd like to know what other applications besides the one I showed you guys earlier, What do you suggest? What else would you like me to add to this hard drive? If this hard drive here is something that you think I should continue putting together,

continue adding to. If it's something you want to join effort project and you want to take part in it and we're gonna build some cyber decks with it, hit me up, put a comment, blow email me case five hwb at gmail dot com. Let me know what you think about this system. If you've got another system like it, Yes, we're gonna do a Linux system as well. We're totally going to do that. And I have a cyber deck I'm building which is a Raspberry Pie system. So thanks

for watching today, guys. I hope you enjoyed the video. It was a little bit longer than normal, so thanks for sticking around today. In seventy three