⚠ Corrections: ⚠ • At 1:38, the "convert" command in DISKPART actually is for converting MBR boot records to GPT. There is however a different "convert" command that can be run with regular command prompt (not part of DISKPART) that does convert FAT32 to NTFS. I mixed them up.

0.01 million people should really subscribe honestly

This guy is the only content creator that seems to tick all the boxes (IMO) for "how to present a KZfaq video. Starts with quick, concise intro, then cut's to the chase by starting each segment with a relatable scenario followed quickly, but effectively with a solution (also including the explanation for that solution), sometimes with a link to another video to dive deeper into particulars, then gracefully summarizes everything he just covered in the video also suggesting another interesting video to watch. My favorite part, about his video editing, is how he takes a suggestive approach, in regards to getting subscribers, briefly explaining the benefit and (most importantly) does this "at the end of the video", giving the viewer a taste of the goods before hinting a subscription. I'm definitely not a fan of folks who request a subscription, from the get-go, as it IMO comes of as desperate and seems more like begging as apposed to a service with beneficiary elements.

Task Scheduler can be used for programs to skip UAC, CCleaner uses this trick. if you disable 'Run with highest privileges' for the CCleanerSkipUAC, it will be in a soft loop, relaunching itself in the background till you enable the option for the task. If you have services that is public to the internet, like web hosting and such, you can run it under a different user and not the system user; at least that's what i do. Event viewer can be used for more than just troubleshooting problems. it can be used to check for a performance degradation and remote access (smb, openssh) attempts.

7:58 - Reliability monitor was something which I was unaware of, knew all the others. This adds one more tool to my knowledge. Thanks for the video.

To run reliability monitor from the desktop, run “perfmon /rel” from the DOS prompt, put it in a batch file on the desktop.

Your channel has been super helpful over the years. Just wanted to say thank you ThioJoe!

Surely one of the most basic tip videos Thio has ever made in a while. btw, congrats on 3M subs!

Great video! As a windows user, it's always exciting to discover advanced features that can enhance my experience. Your video provided valuable insights into lesser-known Windows features that can truly make a difference. I appreciate the clear explanations and step-by-step demonstrations. Now I feel more equipped to make the most of my Windows system. Thank you for sharing this helpful content!

Thanks ThioJoe...love every sec of your videos...truly informative and really helpful in day to day lives. Keep it up Sir

Great information as usual. Thank you.

4:44 I see you have the alpha version of 'Everything' too. Can't wait for the stable version to be released. Its been years

Very cool ThioJoe, thank you for blessing us with another video of yours

I learn more here on this channel than in school! Got it👍🏽!!! Thank you, Professor 🎓

Knew mostly every tool already but still nice video! :)

Your videos have really helped me!

The reliability monitor might be very helpful for me, thank you for mentioning it

I was noting that I think you have never done a video about the incredible WSCC, a collection of tools from different sources that have saved me multiple times 🙂, containing not only the standard Windows tools and the older sysinternals, nirsoft, but also a bunch of other incredible staff that is not always very easy to learn, but really si much useful!

Thanks for this Windows utility video. Now armed with these powerful tools no issue can hide from me! Btw congratulations on 3 million subscribers, you deserve it. 👏

There were many I don’t know in this video. Always great to know❤

Just installed PowerToys. Very cool and useful. Thank you.

Though I've worked with computers since 1965, I enjoy your presentations. Your lessons are well organized and concise. Thank you for helping to bring new users up to speed.

Thanks for these videos. I have been in IT related jobs since probably around the time you were born. Always looking to stay fresh and you help me do that. I remember buying the best "smartphone" around 2010 so I didn't become one of the old dinosaurs at work that refused cell phones period.

I knew about all except the reliability monitor. Will definitely check there first before hopping over to the event viewer in the future!

I always use Diskpart because the graphical interface of Disk Managment is a disaster. Sometimes functions are grayed out, and you can't always mark partitions as Active. My favorite command is 'Clean,' which simply wipes the entire disk, including the bootloader, and initializes it again.

Cool video. Id love to see a video on privacy aspect of windows and how to increase it

I knew everything except the Reliability Monitor, well guess there'll be a few hrs gone there

thanx to you I found reliability monitor again!

When you edit the HOSTS file to test some site, if it is an existing one you already visited, you must restart the browser, because it caches DNS resolutions

4:50 about services, could you do something like disabling some criticals services, or maybe all of them, i think it would be a good video

good stuff Joe

Thio, I always am thankful for how much effort you put into these vids. You show a great appreciation for tech and its users, great tips.

I use the hosts table to block ads. It's painstaking work but oh so satisfying

Useful, thank you

I love your videos they are so helpful :D

Which rainmeter skins do you use?

Cheers, I knew some...now I know of more. Many thanks.

Hi there! i really like your channel and since dos and my first 386 i was always a geek xd. Of course most of topics are known to me, and probably like You, i'm spending a lot of time looking for answers and a new software. Anyway, I really like your channel. Thanks ThioJoe, and i'm sending greetings from Poland :)

The reliability monitor showed me in seconds what keeps causing Windows to crash seemingly randomly. All this time I thought something was wrong with my video card and that I'd need to buy a new one. I wish I had thought of checking that a long time ago. 🤦‍♂

Was just wondering what to read in Event Viewer when attempting to figure out issues. A vid on that would be helpful.

Great video and if you're going to earn your living managing MS Windows bases systems including servers you MUST know these commands!!

Windows Memory Diagnostic is great to know about. I work in IT and someone’s PC kept blue screening and this was the first test I ran. Sure enough, the RAM was bad.

Very informative video..

You tell people just enough to be dangerous lmao, keep it up, love the channel.

Hosts file, the add blocker avant la lettre... Powertoys was bought by MS. They did well with those though.

Good info.

Some of the sysinternals tools are useful too e.g process explorer

If you want to convert a folder to a drive you can do this via cmd. command is SUBST [letter you're assigning]: [folder address]. You may want to wrap the address in a string with quotations ("example").

Stock videos are always funny 0:11

I subcribed yesterday ❤❤

4:18 some interesting programs. i feel like i've seen that white circle with a blue dot somewhere before hehehe

FWIW, the location of the HOSTS file is stored in the Windows registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DatabasePath.

Reliability Monitor are what I use most out of here in this list

I must be more capable in a company environment than I thought because I knew of almost all of these and use at least half already regularly. For disk repairs (I forget where I heard it): DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth SFC /scannow I end up doing these any time stuff gets weird on my system and stuff is often enough found.

I use Disk Management every time after clean instal of Windows, because I change my drive letters to specific ones. For example nvme SSD is G, because GAMES. D is for doccuments, C is standard and there is also R for "RPG", but I won't elaborate what that means, because it's beyond the point. I knew about services for quite some time. I don't even know how did I learn about them, but I did mess with them for ew reasons (that I can't even recal now). It's indeed good to know that exist. I wish I knew Event Viewer 1-2 years ago, when I had annoying freeze crash problem, that destroyed my work when the freeze was happening. Everything that was saved at the time Windows froze, went blank. Which means all work done to the file became lost. And as a person who uses CTRL+S every few seconds... I started to save files and then copy these files every few saves to not get the data lost to the point I was paranoid about it. Reliability Monitor would be helpful.

I remember going through Diskpart in Command Prompt because I didn't know how to use Disk Management... lol

There were a few that i didn't know... Most i did but with little interaction

Hi Thio, great video as always. Could I make a suggestion. I understand the need for your fade in texts describing the royalty free videos. The KZfaq copyright system is pretty terrible. But would you consider making it a little more discreet. With my ADHD, its difficult to focus on your voice, the video and the text pop ups. Just a thought.

NOW I finally found out what the causing that strange graphics issue I was having in Battlefield 2!😁

The reliability monitor is super helpful for me, since the event viewer is crowded with too much unrelated information to be useful to me.

What you said about the event viewer could be very helpful for me because my laptop has been losing connection to the internet. My Wi-Fi connection has been disconnecting randomly whenever I use it. Normally, it mostly happens when I'm using the internet, so could that help me fix and troubleshoot the disconnection problem

I like the fact that you used Oculus software to demonstrate the event monitor.

4:17 Sooooo you have been downloading Films/TV shows for your plex ? x)

Is there a way to create a shortcut or something that can enable us to toggle between light & dark modes with a single click?

omg i used most of these except last one, ive built a custom tool box, i replaced diskpart and diskmgmt with diskgenius, much more advanced features and easy-to-use and i replace task manager and resource monitor with process hacker btw u should show dism its a super useful tool

MMC is very useful!

Question 🙋🏾‍♂️: in disk management formatting a drive have 2 options drive letter or NTFS folder or something i cant remember .. a video oh how to understand that feature especially for multiple drives and folders between different drives… i’m confused as how to use the feature

Get this man to 3 million subs.

I've been watching A LOT of your videos lately, and have an observation/question. How many of your new videos work on Windows 10? It would be helpful to note which Windows version(s) your video applies to. Or, when did you stop making Win 10 videos, so those of use who don't have Win 11 can go back to watch those videos? Thank you - your videos are incredibly helpful.

Services CANNOT have a graphical interface, that's just not how they work at all. In fact they don't even have the same startup procedure that executable and dll files have. They are all specifically DENIED from even interacting with the user or desktop unless you set a flag to allow them to interact with the desktop, which is fairly rare. That means they can't display dialogs or anything else if they fail and must report it in the Event Viewer instead. Also one of the most important things about DISKPART that you can't even begin to do via the mmc console is to set parameters. That's how you can create things like System Reserved partitions, EFI partitions and partitions of different formats.

The hosts file could be really useful to prank your friends 😂

wow I was wondering why some apps start on startup despite the folders being empty and all startup apps turned off... although on my main pc, i have to start so many apps manually that i just trade the slower boot time for them to be already open especially cuz they're essential to my pc like RGB software and stuff

I've been having weird crashing issues. So my question is how to view and interpret the dmp files. Googling that shows a handful of programs and I don't know which would be the best to download.

Can you make a video about the inplace upgrade for Windows 10 or 11. Maybe include it in a video of how to repair Windows.

- 4:25 And then there are all the drivers that aren't shown in the Services MMC snap-in. Sysinternals' Autoruns will list them. - 4:30 You can also see the services in MSConfig. And all of those services that are not running were disabled by the hackers in your IP address and you need to get gift cars to get them out. Biryani vindaloo! - 5:39 What about when the audio of whatever is playing audio suddenly stutters for a couple of seconds as if it's about to BDOS but then doesn't BSOD. I still have no idea what that transient problem is caused by and since it's so random, there's no practical way to try to debug it. 😕 (No, the event-log doesn't show anything. nor do the Task Manager graphs.) - 6:49 "Some kind of memory diagnostic" probably means MemTest86+. - 7:47 I use InfoBar. I used to use WinBar but it didn't work well after XP. InfoBar is abandoned and has a bad memory leak and now no longer works with the CPU module and is on its last legs. I wish I could find a replacement. 😕 - 8:48 Every company thinks its junk is t he most important thng in the world and MUST be running at all times. 🙄 This is why I try to avoid installers like the plague and prefer to extract the files and run them manually so that I can control what runs on my system.

Reliability monitor is new to me 😮

for the event viewer note that even on a clean just installed windows system it will show a problem there so not everything in there actually is a problem however scammers like to use event viewer to show you your pc has problems and then charge you big sums of money to fix these issues which like i said in the beginning might not even be an issue in the first place

can I say that this explains one of the biggest things that I have never used reliability monitor is something that I have never touched in the entire time of owning 5 PC's! not even kidding

9:17 My favorite ThioJoe pose

is sound booster safte to use?

Yes the event viewer saved my life once i hat the most random isue ever when i first startet a game everything was fine but when i startet a other or the same game for the 2. time my screen wen black, it turns out at 2. start every time my graphics driver crashed, had to use the Driver Removal tool in safe mode to completly remove everything normal driver reinstall would not do anything

You must provide full transcript of these videos - so that not so good at computer fellows can get the full benefit of these

2:54 would love to try their toys 😂

1:38 this is for changing between mbr and gpt, not for changing filesystems.

Cool!

7:35 - that resource monitor looks cool can you tell me it's name

I finally saw another video before 1K views!

I have a question for you, and I apologize if it's not related to the video. I just heard that adblockers can see usernames and passwords, is that true? I currently use AdGuard. I am actually concerned and I'd like to hear your opinion.

I've had to use diskpart, cause sometimes, diskmanager just won't fix a borked drive , usually /clean

Me, who wouldn't use these features on a daily basis, but still saves this video anyways 😅

Good stuff buy why can't I save this vid? No three dots menu next to share button.

i get a hardware error in the reliability monitor. i cant decipher the codes i see written even after i googled them. i even asked chat gpt xD nothing. knowing i dont have a problem with my computer whatsoever

Reliability Monitor is “view reliability history”, didn't show up for me when I searched “Reliability Monitor”

what happens if I remove Bounce Tracking Mitigations flags chrome

nice

💡Next you shoukld do a list of Top 10 actually good third party tools and programs for Windows that might be useful for Power users or anyone who just wants to know more about their computers!

watching the channel for too long made this video feels like a recap for "windows tools microsoft threw somewhere in the OS"

Question. Should I bother windows 11 , using 10... last time I used it it felt sluggish, 6 months ago

1:39 i like to convert my FD, cause i like my FD to copy more than 4GB at once

Will u please make a video on mumu player vs blue stacks is it a killer please !! Also do it’s complete comparison please !! I request you