Speccy is a program to see the specifications of the hardware and software in your computer. It is pronounced "Spec - See" (spek-see) as a play on words that are the program's function, to "See" the "Specs" of your computer. The program icon is of a computer tower standing within the arms of a pair of old-style 3D Glasses (spectacles), this further plays on the "See the Specs" theme.

You helped us a lot..... A big thanks for all of your videos from the deep of my heart❤❤

I think the original Hiren's came out with an MS-DOS environment, probably 5 or 6. I was sort of a semi-graphical menu-type interface[using key options like A, B, C, etc rather than a mouse to navigate, and was so small it could fit on a 50-MB ["credit-card"] Burnable CD-ROM disk. Pirated or not, it was used by nearly all computer techs that I knew in the field. It was simply superb. It was was usable in that form until windows NT, where some of the utilities did not work with the new kernel. Computer techs, like help desk folks, were entry-level IT professionals before going on to better-paid jobs like system admins and programmers, and because they did not have much money, and their bosses often did not let them buy very expensive forensic/repair program suites, they always had a Hiren's boot CD in their pocket. This is going back at least 30 years now. Other tools were tiny Linux terminal distributions, which would also fit on a 50 Gig CD-ROM. A little further back, and you could put Linux on a single 1.44mb floppy disk.

I have used hirens for a decade to recover / reset SAM file passwords. Best tool out there.. It's unfortunate to see this software starting to age and no one is updating it. Great video as well. thank you

I am using this HB boot CD for years. Works like a charm. Even the oldest versions for DOS 😀 It is even comoatible with SATA HDDs.

I used Hirens WAY back in the day. Even with the pirated stuff it bailed me out several times. Damn shame the haters killed it. Great Video man!

When the original Hirens was about there wee also a group of people that took the concept, allowing you to add so much to things yourself to get the best customised experience, using the software that you chose, rathe then what somebody else did. It was also based on the PE environment too. This version is definitely worth having though, especially as one of the options on Ventoy on a USB stick.

Thanks for this video! And I like that you are a fan of Better Call Saul 😁

Great stuff! I used to have a whole folder of CD and floppy (only the 31/2" ones, I threw all the 51/4 inch floppies away) tools that did some of what these do. This is EVER so much more convenient!

hey Cybercpu, Thank you for bringing this old Classic up to us again, very great.

I been using Hirens for over a decade. Now use it along with several other ISOs on a large Ventoy USB.

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

U r really good at explaining and (importantly) us getting results from yr tyes - tahnks a bunch man.

I do look forward to Monday so I can enjoy a new CyberCPU video.

Great review! Thanks.

Thanks for this, this really might help me out.

Nice and tight...thanks. Enjoyed the HBCD backstory. I was a MSFT field SE in the 90s and the early HBCD was a standard part of our "unofficial toolbox'. Fun to reminisce...thx

I can't imagine not having HirenBootCD on my Ventoy drive. So useful to have whenever I need it.

Hello Rich, I'm new to your channel. Really enjoy your videos! After viewing this video, I created Hiren's Boot USB. When I booted from it, I noticed that it is now Windows 11. I also noticed that Malwarebytes and Kaspersky are no longer included.. Only McAfee and ESET. And again, thanks for the knowledge. Your now my Goto Guy for PC related Technology.

Rich, I just love the TEXT on your Tee shirt.

hey Rich thanx for the explanation of hirens, question, isnt medicat better? cheers m8

kool...i will give this a try

Thanks for this. I’m using it since 2009

it works fine...thanks

Been using hiren for years. Great review

Medicat is the best! You can use your own ISO's on it because it's based on Ventoy.

Life Saver, thank you.

Happy New Year

informative video thank you, I was following along today 7/2/24 and the version is now Windows 11, or at least the wallpaper says so, some of the tools have changed maybe worth a follow up video, cheers

Did I go through a worm hole? Didn't this video come out a few weeks ago? Awesome video Deja vu or not.

Thank you for all the videos. I haven't been on the fixing side of Windows, pc repair, and information technology in a really long time. Your videos are informative, very well put together, and remind me of my professors in Microsoft Network Engineering class. Makes me want to get back into it. This video reminded me of the old Bart PE tool, I still have a copy of with brutus on it.😂😂 I would forget to disable security, it would lock a computer and eat my floppy or whatever media I had it on when i booted into windows. I used it for forgotten passwords on windows and i think had about 4 hd's full of tables, gzzz it's been a long time. I would like to see a partioning tool to use this phone as a bootable media, has a 1 tb drive I'll never use. If I could partion half of it 500 gb as a bootable media on my phone, I could then have hot spot and some mobile networking tools and I could eliminate all the disks I still have, and have a very usable traveling tool, would help with folks out in the rural areas. Who knows, maybe one day. Thanks for the videos and please continue. ✌️

Thank you so much for sharing. Does Hiren Boot CD work on any Windows 10 PC? BTW, you had just gotten a new subscriber.

Hirens was a convenient bit of kit. Used it a lot back in the day. Funnily enough, I just retired an old tower I had under my workbench at work whose sole purpose was to boot hirens and test ISA hard drives and used to test out monitors. Can't remember what version of hirens I had on it, but it was an early version that did what I wanted how I wanted it done.

Thanks!

Hey Rich, one question. Since yesterday i'm having problems instaling the last Windows 10 home 22H2 acumulative update, it shows the error 0x8007000d every time. I already tried SFC, DISM, WU troubleshoot, cleaning installation cache but nothing seems to work, it happened only with this last update; any idea? Thank you!

Great info, although I still keep multiple Images on a 4TB HDD. It has saved my bacon a number of times! BTW, as @SubzeroMKG says in the comments, put HBDC_PE straight on a Ventoy USB Key with any other of your utilities. Job Done.

@CyberCPU - At timestamp 19:50, you had mentioned that you had to (& later on (at timestamp 20:00) stated that you were going to) do up a video on the SysInternals Suite by itself/explicitly. Just curious if you've gotten some to that [yet], or maybe you're working on it [still]? If you HAVE completed it, maybe you could reply with 😮the link and/or add the link to this video's description...? I look forward to seeing you do a video on the SysInternals Suite - there's a lot of really good tools in there, & I'm sure I'm not even familiar with HALF of them!! Thanks 👍👍

I personally use Sergei Strelec's version. Lots more utilities. It feels more like the original Hiren's. Great video as always.

Hiren dates back to at least the mid 90's, I started using it in 1998, that was version 2 I believe. I probably still have it on an old SCSi/IDE drive in storage. As for Speccy, it's pronounced like Techie as it relates to Specifications & Spectacles.

A huge shout out to the Better Call Saul ice cream cone wallpaper.

My MainPC was extremely slow for no apparent reason. Used Hiren’s to run Malwarebytes. It found a bunch of PUP apps and isolated them. That put my system back in working order.

Since I started using Sergei Strelec I never looked back 😊

Love your content! For 19:31, I assume it is pronounced speck-y, like the short form of "specifications" or "specs" with a "y". English is weird. Also, "speccy" is a weird name. :D

They made a really cool Hirens XP Boot CD Back in the early 2000s. It had lots of simple basic tools that did the job on windows 7 8 and 10 very well. Its only MBR not EFI bootable.

The Password unlocker you opened in the video works really well... with Windows 10 and older. It will even revert a MS Account to a Local Account and unlock it. However, it doesn't appear to work with Windows 11 the last time I tried it. Also the info program you couldn't pronounce I believe it's pronounced Spec-y.... ie. specs of the PC.

I see Macrium Reflect is included. I purchased the full version and it did a great job cloning my drive for me. I bought a cheap used workstation on EBay and the drive it came with was a strange cheapo drive with small capacity. I cloned that drive to a larger good quality drive. I also cloned a M.2 NVME drive to another larger one. It is licensed to a single computer, but you can de-activate it on one machine and install it on a different one, which is what I did.

What I'd like to know is how to add my own (paid for) utilities to the image. I'm assuming it's using a RAM disk with a compressed image or something like that (you showed that X: is different from the USB drive itself), so how do you _install_ something and have it persist between boots?

I created a Hirrens CD on an external drive using WD Green, SP or TG 128 GB M.2 SSD in a external enclosure and it was a lot smoother. A 128 GB SSD is overkill, but sometimes having more room for the thing to play around is a lot better. I found the same thing in Windows to Go stuff. SATA is only going to run so fast anyway, and hopefully this stuff isn't going to be needed every day anyway, and it works pretty good. Ditto on Ventoy.

I was like "Nice ice cream background" and than I figured out where it is taken from

A new version of Hiren's BootCD was released. It is based on Windows 11.

i still have and use my Hirens CD's gonna see what versions i have. just finished making an old Macbook 10.5 Snowleopard Dual Boot to Win 10 other one i wiped out Snowleopard and it's now Win 7 *Great Content Bro' Thank You*

Thx for this vidéo 🙏please i have a question....does it work on computers with ARM64 processor ??

I also use Sergei Strelec's WinPE

Hirens is good but most of us use Sergei Strelecall in one iso, man it is awesome !

Best ever step-by-step instructions on Rufus: however at 8:49, you have already booted into Hiren's. Would have appreciated instructions on how you booted to Hirens.

i see that GTO toy on your shelf - did / do you have one ? back in 1977 - i had a 1969 pontiac blue ' 69 GTO with a ' 68 gran prix 428 cu in engine - had the high performance holley 4 barrel carb - hurst shifter - and thrush mufflers - solid lifters etc . 4 - 11 rear differential

Hi there, thanks for a very informative session in using Hiren's, however, the Hiren's boot that I currently use, does not contain some of the program tools that you display. Such as Acronis True Image free version, DIX Runtime Drive-image, PE Network and a few others. When Itried to download these and update my Hiren's tools, it requires payment. Where do I get an updated version of Hiren's Tools and how do I create a bootable disk for it. I hope you can find time to assist me with this. Regards

I used the Hirens a couple of months ago to reset a lost Windows password.

Active Disk is good too

Hi. My Windows is broken. I need to be able to move the data from the Windows SSD to another drive before I reinstall Windows on it. My understanding is that Hiren Boot CD is made for this. My question is, where will this tool install drivers and stuff (because I don't want it to install stuff on my other drives), and should I use a 32GB USB or should I use a smaller one?

So I have a question for you sir..... I swaped out my omen 30L with rtx 3060 and a ryzen 5 5600g but I got a new cpu for Christmas and shapes the 5600g to the ryzen 7 5800x and I thought all was gonna be well but things took a turn it went to the blue screen of death F8 doesn't do jack and everything else just shows the parts that are in there working fine. But windows 11 won't start for jack.

When creating Hirens's boot disk from ISO using windows and rufus, Windows Defender considers ProduKey inside Hirens as threat. Is there any risk ignoring this warning?

Did you try “net use” command from command prompt to map the drive ?

I have used Hiren boot CD v 9.3 and 15.2 did not use this one but plan to download it

I got to know about this amazing software this year, it was a life saver. Honestly I won't give 2 $hits about it having non licensed software. It's a free tool, that these multi billion dollar companies will never make so any one getting their nickers in a twist can sod off.

Hi, They updated Hirens after version 1.0.2 to use windows 11 pe. Ive tried this but is boots to automatic recovery which fails. Do you know were i can get a safe download of version 1.0.2 as it doesnt seem to be available on there site

What did you download Rufus for? Seems it was not used or did I miss something? Thanks.

Can the boot drive be made from windows 10. Or do you need to use 11

I used the Hirens boot USB just this morning after it was creat over night while I sleep. Interesting that mine boot up as Windows11 Hirens Boot. In any case just a quick look at it before I went to work. When I went to MY PC I found that C drive & D drive was locked? asking for a key to unlock. Any thoughts on this?

Where can I find your memory diagnostic video?

In Windows 10, I was doing disk image backups using the win 7 recover software that win 10 has. When the time came when I needed to use the image, I got error messages saying the operating system was incompatible. Apparently the win 7 software uses a mbr and win 10 uses UDEMI. I don't know why windows would give us a backup system that can't be used. Am I missing something?

I have Speccy on my system and it shows you all the info of your system , condition of all your drives and temperatures of all your hardware , it shows you all the specs of everything in your PC .

Hey please can you help. I formatted my laptop c drive by mistake. I have bought hirens set up usb. But unsure where to go. Everything I have tried just says error. Please could you help. Thanks Harry

Ok.. 'So'... IS IT a specific program?? or just a line of Code?? I went to their website and looked thru their downloads.. and they have a lot.. but what am I specifically looking for?? RSVP

I tried to install and run Hiren's BootCD PE x64 (v1.0.8) but it always fails upon boot. I get the loading screen and then the Windows logo flag appears and then the un-smiley face shows up and is forced to reboot. I have tried GPT and MBR, I have tried NTFS and FAT32 and repeated on two different good and valid USB drives of 16GB. Is there a fix or a mitigation? Since it reboots I do not think that there is any error log on the USB drive to review, correct?

hey, I did it. MBR surely is more compatible, but my laptop is uefi only and it did not recognized it as a boot device. or maybe it is cause it is NTFS instead of FAT32. can you make MBR partitions on FAT32?

Ive used it since 98SE. There is so much it can do, it can get confusing BUT everything you try will help not hurt.

After downloading the ISO and Rufus, I followed your instructions on the procedure, but when I inserted the flash drive into the USB port it recognized it, but when attempting to select the ISO it doesn't show up in my download folder. I can open Windows Explorer and check for it, and yes, it is in my download folder but for whatever reason it does not show up when attempting to select it in Rufus. Puzzling! Any suggestions or solutions?

can the Hirens new version can unlock Local user admin account or enable it?

Now I want a Tech Memes videos.... 😂

@14:14 - How does one put their own Acronis key into this bootcd image?

I used Bart's PE, back in the day....at least I think that was it.

I would recommend to use Ventoy instead of Rufus. Why? Because once you've created a Ventoy USB drive you will never ever need to flash iso files again. You just copy them directly onto a USB drive and it just boots into whatever system there is on those iso files. You can also use multiple iso files at once, so you can create a USB drive with HBCD, Windows installation and Linux installation on the same USB drive.

Hirens 9.3 is the best one, because of the software that include. ;) ;)

Can I access the user downloads files from that boot system? I’m trying to recover from a un bootable drive

Does NT passwords works also on Bitlocker drives?

Ventoy+HirensbootCD+Linux distro of your chosing)=Profit!

So it’s downloaded to the usb drive but idk what to do to get into Hirens

I just got Hiren boot CD PE on a USB and it boots but i have no mouse trackpad at all. Any suggestions?

I just d loaded the iso file and dragged it on a Ventoy usb drive. Should that work to?

It no longer contains anti virus tools for offline scanning?

Does it allows bare metal recovery from usb stick ?

I used Hiren's ultimate boot CD off and on till windows 8.1 was replaced with windows 10. Really interesting to know about its history. While there are perhaps many other such environments available, why does Hiren's remain (arguably) the most mentioned and popular (or notorious)? Off late, the Medicat USB seems to be getting mentioned a lot. Is one really better than the other? Or does it matter whether you use one or the other? Especially among laypersons and non-IT repair professionals? P.S. the name Hiren is not pronounced as "High-Ren". The correct pronounciation is closer to "He-Rain". It is an Indian name meaning Lord of the Diamonds

does herins boot cd come with ddu? i can’t boot to safe mode

I went to Hiren's page and selected download but I could not find a link to download the file.

Hey Man I'm stuck for installing a new install of Window's 11. Some cheap skate hacker has a keylogger on my laptop and and has been using my iLok accounts and Plugin Boutique's to access my plugins an thought he would install some of his own, problem is he has disabled Windows TMP 2.0 and Secure Boot and I can't see the UEFI settings when go into the BIOS and the beginning! Can you help out, it's been 4 month's he's been on my system. I was doing a music course now it's time to tackle this nerd! I forgot to mention he disabled my Windows update as well ,nut you probably knew that eh?

while trying access C drive through Hiren's Boot CD , Its showing as access is denied.any solution to resolve this ??

Latest version has been updated in March. Hiren's BootCD PE x64 v1.0.8 (5 March 2024):

Medicat is my go to Recovery Environment. I think it is better than 99% of the tools out there.

Can’t get into Hirens “Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." 3. Click "Repair your computer." If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance. Status: 0xc0000017 Info: There isn't enough memory available to create a ramdisk device.”