WEBVTT

00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.379
like me many of you probably carry around a USB stick that's filled to the

00:00:05.339 --> 00:00:13.500
brim with your favorite utilities you know just in case

00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:16.260
but technology changes newer better

00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:21.420
tools come along and sometimes the older ones aren't as effective or even stop

00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:26.760
working altogether and realistically who's got the time to

00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:31.140
keep up with all the latest cool side projects from development with kids who

00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:34.800
haven't discovered girls yet have no fear because we've got you covered with

00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:39.180
some improvements to tools you might already know about some awesome

00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:45.600
utilities that you might not know about and a sneaky solution to a problem that

00:00:42.899 --> 00:00:50.280
pops up at the worst of times we've also got this completely unexpected segue to

00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:54.899
our sponsor Samsung Samsung's Galaxy unpacked event is not very far far away

00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:59.460
and you can reserve the next generation of Galaxy devices all with no deposit or

00:00:57.480 --> 00:01:03.960
space credits required thank goodness check it out of the link below and get a

00:01:01.140 --> 00:01:08.040
50 credit you probably spend a ton of time at your PC wearing headphones so

00:01:06.119 --> 00:01:12.780
what if there was something you could do to improve your audio quality regardless

00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:17.880
of how much you spent on them equalizer APO does exactly that adding powerful

00:01:15.540 --> 00:01:22.080
graphic and parametric Equalization to your Windows PC you can tweak the EQ

00:01:20.460 --> 00:01:27.180
curve system wide for for more personalized listening experience or per

00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:31.860
device to boost key frequencies so you catch those footsteps sneaking up behind

00:01:29.580 --> 00:01:35.640
you before it's too late it's even customizable with add-ons that can

00:01:33.720 --> 00:01:40.740
enhance it with power functionality like audio device routing surround

00:01:37.979 --> 00:01:44.579
virtualization and even recommended EQ curves for some of the most popular

00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:49.799
headphones by the way if yours were overlooked you can check out Auto EQ dot

00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:53.579
app a database of even more downloadable EQ curves we're going to have links to

00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:57.659
every tool we talk about today in the description below the only downside you

00:01:56.460 --> 00:02:02.159
might have to come back to this video and click that link again if a Windows

00:02:00.180 --> 00:02:07.020
update messes with the sound subsystem and borks your custom setup now if

00:02:05.219 --> 00:02:10.200
tweaking frequencies isn't your thing and you just want a way to route your

00:02:08.580 --> 00:02:14.340
audio so that your stream viewers don't hear your Discord buddies inventing new

00:02:11.819 --> 00:02:16.920
cuss words then voice meter is the tool for you I can't believe we've never

00:02:15.959 --> 00:02:22.020
talked about this thing because voicemeeter is amazing it's a virtual

00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:25.980
audio mixer that comes in threes sizes each giving you more virtual channels

00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:29.940
and control over more Hardware than the last we installed the middle of the road

00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:33.660
banana version for our demo of what voicemeeter might look like configured

00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:38.459
for a two-player streaming session we've got audio coming in from our capture

00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:43.379
card and our two headset mics then using these various A and B buttons on each

00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:48.060
input Channel we can control where that input audio goes the a outputs are

00:02:46.019 --> 00:02:53.280
hardware and we've set those up to be each of our headphones and the system

00:02:50.099 --> 00:02:55.560
speakers and the B outputs are virtual

00:02:53.280 --> 00:03:00.360
so we've got those routing to Discord and to OBS for streaming once it's all

00:02:58.140 --> 00:03:05.220
set up both players can hear themselves the game and the Discord audio and the

00:03:03.060 --> 00:03:09.900
stream viewers hear only the player mics and the game audio oh side note by the

00:03:07.860 --> 00:03:15.420
way voicemeeter also happens to be just about the best and fastest way to clone

00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:19.680
your audio output to multiple devices I had a bug a while back where my VR audio

00:03:17.940 --> 00:03:23.159
mirroring wasn't working which made it impossible to play one of my kids

00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:26.940
favorite party games and voice meter took care of this for me in about three

00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:30.780
minutes let's get away from audio for a bit though I'd wager that most of you

00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:36.300
are familiar with 98 which lets you install and update popular software

00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:37.800
without all the next next Finish Well if

00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:44.340
you've ever been disappointed with the selection of applications that are available in ninite then chocolaty might

00:03:41.459 --> 00:03:48.420
be for you chocolaty is a command line package manager for Windows that has

00:03:46.620 --> 00:03:53.340
more than 10 000 unique packages available if you've

00:03:50.819 --> 00:03:56.819
ever used apt or yum to manage software on Linux you're going to know exactly

00:03:54.900 --> 00:04:01.319
what I'm talking about and if you haven't let me demonstrate why you do

00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:05.340
care about this on our system here we've already got

00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:10.260
chocolatey installed so we just go to a prompt and type in choco install

00:04:07.700 --> 00:04:14.340
paint.net and hit enter chocolaty downloads and installs paint.net for us

00:04:12.299 --> 00:04:18.120
and all we have to do is say yes when it asks if we're sure and we don't even

00:04:16.019 --> 00:04:22.680
have to do that if we just add a dash y to the end of our Command we can even

00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:27.360
string together dozens of packages and have our new machine just set itself up

00:04:25.020 --> 00:04:31.680
while we go out and wash the car and like nine night chocolatey can also be

00:04:29.580 --> 00:04:36.180
used to keep your installed programs up to date or specifically to not if

00:04:35.100 --> 00:04:39.180
there's something you don't want to upgrade you can lock in a particular

00:04:38.280 --> 00:04:42.900
version there are paid plans available that

00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:49.020
offer some extra features for business use but even in its free community

00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:51.060
supported form this is a must have tool

00:04:49.020 --> 00:04:54.900
and the command line is a little too daunting for you you don't need it just

00:04:53.280 --> 00:04:59.040
make sure the first thing you install is chocolatey gooey and you can manage

00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:03.479
everything graphically after that here how about I use chocolaty to show you

00:05:01.259 --> 00:05:07.860
guys another cool tool winterstat has been a staple of technicians USB keys

00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:12.360
since its first release back in 2003 allowing us to easily identify what is

00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:19.080
eating up all of that precious hard drive space but these days you might prefer whiztree

00:05:16.259 --> 00:05:25.500
from antibody software the interface is immediately familiar but unlike Windows

00:05:21.900 --> 00:05:28.139
stat it's fast like I'm talking seconds

00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:32.180
instead of minutes and it even handles gotchas like hard link files

00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:36.900
significantly more accurately furthermore unlike Windows stat wiztree

00:05:35.039 --> 00:05:42.180
is still in active development and gets bug fixes updates and new features

00:05:39.419 --> 00:05:46.199
periodically which by the way you can get automatically by creating a

00:05:44.220 --> 00:05:51.000
scheduled task to run the update command in chocolatey changing gears our next

00:05:49.020 --> 00:05:55.740
tool is only in the Microsoft store sorry chocolatey users but it might be

00:05:53.880 --> 00:06:00.900
worth checking out anyway you've probably heard of Windows power toys but

00:05:58.020 --> 00:06:05.340
have you heard of win toys this utility gathers program and service management

00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:09.840
tools along with frequently used Windows settings tweaks and fixes and puts them

00:06:07.919 --> 00:06:13.440
all in one place so you don't have to go digging through the various settings

00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:17.220
apps and control panels trying to figure figure out where the devil Microsoft has

00:06:15.419 --> 00:06:21.240
moved things this week speaking of losing track of things I'm

00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:26.759
sure we've all been there looking for that bootable thumb drive that you know

00:06:23.819 --> 00:06:33.000
you have you know the one with that ISO on it well no more while it's long been

00:06:31.080 --> 00:06:38.639
possible to have multiple bootable utilities on a single thumbstick our

00:06:35.580 --> 00:06:41.160
favorite method these days is ventoy

00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:47.520
cool after a quick installation to your drive all you've got to do is just copy

00:06:44.340 --> 00:06:50.039
any ISO or any disk image file you want

00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:55.740
and ventoy will automatically detect it and add it to a menu at boot no more

00:06:53.100 --> 00:07:00.300
manually updating menus or requiring the installer software to add or update your

00:06:58.020 --> 00:07:05.039
tools this has already been a Time Saver for me on multiple occasions oh and

00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:09.020
while you're adding images to your new ventway Drive be sure to include one of

00:07:07.259 --> 00:07:15.000
the tiny images from netboot.xyz which uses pxe booting to

00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:21.180
let you launch your choice of more than 80 operating system installers live

00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:23.280
operating systems and utility images all

00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:27.660
downloaded on demand over the Internet it can even boot Windows installers

00:07:25.740 --> 00:07:31.740
though you will need to do a bit of fancy work to host the installer files

00:07:29.699 --> 00:07:34.560
on a Windows PE environment somewhere on your network

00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:38.460
if you'd rather someone else do all the heavy lifting and gather your utilities

00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:43.620
for you kind of like hiron's boot CD back in the day you can check out

00:07:40.020 --> 00:07:45.539
medicat USB this massive 20 plus

00:07:43.620 --> 00:07:49.800
Gigabyte collection of tools is wrapped up in a customized ventoy menu system

00:07:47.340 --> 00:07:54.060
and includes a wide selection of bootable tools along with a Windows PE

00:07:52.020 --> 00:07:59.819
environment with an enormous collection of portable apps now obviously

00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:05.759
collections like these exist in the uh legally dubious excuse me Zone but the

00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:09.720
reality is that if you've ever worked at a tech shop you've probably touched one

00:08:07.740 --> 00:08:14.280
at some point so we would be naive to imagine that everyone is just going to

00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:16.740
pretend they don't exist so we installed

00:08:14.280 --> 00:08:19.680
metacat to a 32 Gigabyte thumb drive and actually ended up with only a couple

00:08:17.940 --> 00:08:23.340
gigs free so if you're going to want to add any additional isos or tools you're

00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:28.500
going to probably want to start with a bigger device we should also note by the

00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:33.120
way that our antivirus lost its flipped in mind when we first tried to install

00:08:30.599 --> 00:08:38.820
this collection and classified many of the utilities as hacking tools which

00:08:36.180 --> 00:08:44.880
feels a little unfair because it is chock full of legitimately useful repair

00:08:41.580 --> 00:08:46.680
and diagnostic tools and I think we need

00:08:44.880 --> 00:08:51.060
to look at them through the lens of the good that they can do rather than the

00:08:48.420 --> 00:08:55.220
harm like a screwdriver from LTT Store it could be used as a shiv

00:08:55.860 --> 00:09:03.420
but it's a lot more useful for brewing and unscrewing things oh yeah while I'm

00:09:01.500 --> 00:09:08.519
annoyed by the way why is it so hard sometimes to move files between devices

00:09:05.459 --> 00:09:10.320
we run into this all the time when we're

00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:15.480
away from the studio and trying to copy scripts from our Windows laptops to the

00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:21.240
iPhones that we use as teleprompters it wastes a lot of time and never needs to

00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:26.279
happen again thanks to simple HTTP server from GitHub user the Wawa

00:09:24.540 --> 00:09:31.500
running this program in a folder will launch as advertised a simple HTTP

00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:35.820
server that offers up the contents of that folder to the network that means

00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:40.620
any machine on the network that has a web browser can then navigate to that IP

00:09:38.040 --> 00:09:45.360
address and download the file they need easy peasy only one thing just remember

00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:49.680
to turn off the server when you're done because otherwise pretty obvious

00:09:47.220 --> 00:09:54.779
security issues oh and on that note don't try to run this utility on your

00:09:52.019 --> 00:09:58.200
company's corporate Network because I'm sure it's going to send it running

00:09:56.220 --> 00:10:01.200
hopefully we've introduced you to at least a couple of cool new tools that

00:09:59.820 --> 00:10:05.160
you're already downloading to your thumb drives and if you've got a suggestion

00:10:03.180 --> 00:10:09.480
for a must-have that we haven't brought up before let us know in the comments

00:10:06.899 --> 00:10:15.060
down below ideally you could maybe give us one that generates marginally Wittier

00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.620
Segways to our sponsor vesi with the Sun

00:10:15.060 --> 00:10:20.459
out in full force you got to take care of your body sunglasses for the eyes

00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:24.480
sunscreen for the skin and a pair of vestes for your feet check out their

00:10:22.560 --> 00:10:28.440
Boardwalk slip-on sneakers they're a modern take on a classic design and

00:10:26.580 --> 00:10:33.600
using their patented dymatex technology these trendy kicks let sweat and heat

00:10:30.839 --> 00:10:38.760
Escape keeping your feet dry speaking of moisture they're also backed by vessi's

00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:40.560
claim of being 100 waterproof so

00:10:38.760 --> 00:10:44.459
capitalize on the weather take that trip you deserve and bring your vest they're

00:10:42.959 --> 00:10:48.839
lightweight and stretchy meaning they can fit in most size bags check out the

00:10:46.860 --> 00:10:55.380
vessey boardwalk and other styles at vessey.com Linus Tech tips and use code

00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:57.060
LTT for 15 off your entire order if you

00:10:55.380 --> 00:11:01.320
like this video why not check out the return of handytech under 100 where we

00:10:59.220 --> 00:11:05.360
discovered some must-have physical gadgets rather than software tools