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like me many of you probably carry around a USB stick that's filled to the

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brim with your favorite utilities you know just in case

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but technology changes newer better

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tools come along and sometimes the older ones aren't as effective or even stop

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working altogether and realistically who's got the time to

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keep up with all the latest cool side projects from development with kids who

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haven't discovered girls yet have no fear because we've got you covered with

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some improvements to tools you might already know about some awesome

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utilities that you might not know about and a sneaky solution to a problem that

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pops up at the worst of times we've also got this completely unexpected segue to

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50 credit you probably spend a ton of time at your PC wearing headphones so

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what if there was something you could do to improve your audio quality regardless

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of how much you spent on them equalizer APO does exactly that adding powerful

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graphic and parametric Equalization to your Windows PC you can tweak the EQ

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curve system wide for for more personalized listening experience or per

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device to boost key frequencies so you catch those footsteps sneaking up behind

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you before it's too late it's even customizable with add-ons that can

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enhance it with power functionality like audio device routing surround

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virtualization and even recommended EQ curves for some of the most popular

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headphones by the way if yours were overlooked you can check out Auto EQ dot

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app a database of even more downloadable EQ curves we're going to have links to

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every tool we talk about today in the description below the only downside you

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might have to come back to this video and click that link again if a Windows

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update messes with the sound subsystem and borks your custom setup now if

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tweaking frequencies isn't your thing and you just want a way to route your

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audio so that your stream viewers don't hear your Discord buddies inventing new

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cuss words then voice meter is the tool for you I can't believe we've never

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talked about this thing because voicemeeter is amazing it's a virtual

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audio mixer that comes in threes sizes each giving you more virtual channels

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and control over more Hardware than the last we installed the middle of the road

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banana version for our demo of what voicemeeter might look like configured

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for a two-player streaming session we've got audio coming in from our capture

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card and our two headset mics then using these various A and B buttons on each

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input Channel we can control where that input audio goes the a outputs are

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hardware and we've set those up to be each of our headphones and the system

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speakers and the B outputs are virtual

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so we've got those routing to Discord and to OBS for streaming once it's all

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set up both players can hear themselves the game and the Discord audio and the

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stream viewers hear only the player mics and the game audio oh side note by the

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way voicemeeter also happens to be just about the best and fastest way to clone

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your audio output to multiple devices I had a bug a while back where my VR audio

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mirroring wasn't working which made it impossible to play one of my kids

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favorite party games and voice meter took care of this for me in about three

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minutes let's get away from audio for a bit though I'd wager that most of you

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are familiar with 98 which lets you install and update popular software

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without all the next next Finish Well if

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you've ever been disappointed with the selection of applications that are available in ninite then chocolaty might

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be for you chocolaty is a command line package manager for Windows that has

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more than 10 000 unique packages available if you've

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ever used apt or yum to manage software on Linux you're going to know exactly

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what I'm talking about and if you haven't let me demonstrate why you do

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care about this on our system here we've already got

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chocolatey installed so we just go to a prompt and type in choco install

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paint.net and hit enter chocolaty downloads and installs paint.net for us

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and all we have to do is say yes when it asks if we're sure and we don't even

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have to do that if we just add a dash y to the end of our Command we can even

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string together dozens of packages and have our new machine just set itself up

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while we go out and wash the car and like nine night chocolatey can also be

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used to keep your installed programs up to date or specifically to not if

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there's something you don't want to upgrade you can lock in a particular

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version there are paid plans available that

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offer some extra features for business use but even in its free community

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supported form this is a must have tool

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and the command line is a little too daunting for you you don't need it just

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make sure the first thing you install is chocolatey gooey and you can manage

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everything graphically after that here how about I use chocolaty to show you

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guys another cool tool winterstat has been a staple of technicians USB keys

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since its first release back in 2003 allowing us to easily identify what is

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eating up all of that precious hard drive space but these days you might prefer whiztree

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from antibody software the interface is immediately familiar but unlike Windows

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stat it's fast like I'm talking seconds

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instead of minutes and it even handles gotchas like hard link files

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significantly more accurately furthermore unlike Windows stat wiztree

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is still in active development and gets bug fixes updates and new features

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periodically which by the way you can get automatically by creating a

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scheduled task to run the update command in chocolatey changing gears our next

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tool is only in the Microsoft store sorry chocolatey users but it might be

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worth checking out anyway you've probably heard of Windows power toys but

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have you heard of win toys this utility gathers program and service management

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tools along with frequently used Windows settings tweaks and fixes and puts them

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all in one place so you don't have to go digging through the various settings

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apps and control panels trying to figure figure out where the devil Microsoft has

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moved things this week speaking of losing track of things I'm

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sure we've all been there looking for that bootable thumb drive that you know

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you have you know the one with that ISO on it well no more while it's long been

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possible to have multiple bootable utilities on a single thumbstick our

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favorite method these days is ventoy

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cool after a quick installation to your drive all you've got to do is just copy

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any ISO or any disk image file you want

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and ventoy will automatically detect it and add it to a menu at boot no more

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manually updating menus or requiring the installer software to add or update your

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tools this has already been a Time Saver for me on multiple occasions oh and

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while you're adding images to your new ventway Drive be sure to include one of

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the tiny images from netboot.xyz which uses pxe booting to

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let you launch your choice of more than 80 operating system installers live

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operating systems and utility images all

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downloaded on demand over the Internet it can even boot Windows installers

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though you will need to do a bit of fancy work to host the installer files

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on a Windows PE environment somewhere on your network

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if you'd rather someone else do all the heavy lifting and gather your utilities

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for you kind of like hiron's boot CD back in the day you can check out

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medicat USB this massive 20 plus

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Gigabyte collection of tools is wrapped up in a customized ventoy menu system

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and includes a wide selection of bootable tools along with a Windows PE

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environment with an enormous collection of portable apps now obviously

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collections like these exist in the uh legally dubious excuse me Zone but the

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reality is that if you've ever worked at a tech shop you've probably touched one

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at some point so we would be naive to imagine that everyone is just going to

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pretend they don't exist so we installed

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metacat to a 32 Gigabyte thumb drive and actually ended up with only a couple

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gigs free so if you're going to want to add any additional isos or tools you're

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going to probably want to start with a bigger device we should also note by the

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way that our antivirus lost its flipped in mind when we first tried to install

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this collection and classified many of the utilities as hacking tools which

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feels a little unfair because it is chock full of legitimately useful repair

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and diagnostic tools and I think we need

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to look at them through the lens of the good that they can do rather than the

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harm like a screwdriver from LTT Store it could be used as a shiv

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but it's a lot more useful for brewing and unscrewing things oh yeah while I'm

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annoyed by the way why is it so hard sometimes to move files between devices

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we run into this all the time when we're

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away from the studio and trying to copy scripts from our Windows laptops to the

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iPhones that we use as teleprompters it wastes a lot of time and never needs to

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happen again thanks to simple HTTP server from GitHub user the Wawa

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running this program in a folder will launch as advertised a simple HTTP

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server that offers up the contents of that folder to the network that means

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any machine on the network that has a web browser can then navigate to that IP

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address and download the file they need easy peasy only one thing just remember

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to turn off the server when you're done because otherwise pretty obvious

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security issues oh and on that note don't try to run this utility on your

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company's corporate Network because I'm sure it's going to send it running

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hopefully we've introduced you to at least a couple of cool new tools that

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you're already downloading to your thumb drives and if you've got a suggestion

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for a must-have that we haven't brought up before let us know in the comments

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down below ideally you could maybe give us one that generates marginally Wittier

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