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Episode: 941
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Title: HPR0941: Whats in my bag / Portable Apps
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0941/hpr0941.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 05:15:20
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This is the Germaniac here for another broadcast on Hacker Public Radio.
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We are going to be talking about what I keep in my bag and what tools I may have in my
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hand.
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And some of this stuff I keep in my flash drives.
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Some portable labs and some install media I keep with me at all times is a creator repair
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technician.
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Now let's delve into the media matter.
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What's the matter at bag?
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I keep a tool kit mainly meant for servicing laptops.
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It's got your small Phillips head, flat heads, star bits, the whole nine yards and it's
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also got the SD band to stop the build up of the electricity to help prevent electricity
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discharge from any parts you may be handling and also has a soldering iron with some
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resin.
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Of course solder, I also keep a big Phillips screwdriver and a big flat head screwdriver
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in there for working on actual desktop systems.
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So it's also got a nice little cup to hold the small screws in when you're disassembling
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a laptop or a desktop.
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And I also keep it in a sort of manufacturer's on me.
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At any one moment, I may have 24 kids come more of space on flash drives, work up into
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three or four different drives at a time that carry on me in the process of evaluating
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whether I want to buy a external hard drive for backing up customer data and to move all
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of my different utilities to it along with some live booting flash drives I have.
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On the flash drives, one of the note is I have a portable, I have a flash drive that has
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a live boot install of a cane on it and cane stands for computer aided investigative
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environment.
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It's a Ubuntu-based GNU Linux live distribution credit as a project of digital forensics.
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So it allows me, has Pizzidrat and I's graphical user interface on some of the Linux utilities
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for digital forensics and technicians, and I keep that on a USB flash drive that I can
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boot to if I need to use it to recover data or disabiles, find out who of his files or
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whatever in the case may be.
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I also keep a couple of other live CDs that are actually on CDs.
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I keep a bad track and bad thoughts which are security and penetration testing tools.
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Probably will do a podcast in the near future on how to use bad track at some point.
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I use this for someone calls me and says, hey, I need you to test the security of my network
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and show my weak points.
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I can boot up into this bootable when it's on my laptop and attempt to crack their WPA
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keys, web keys, just try to crack into their network using the ethical hacking tools of
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course.
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I also have a collection of installation disks that I keep with me in my bag.
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I've got a Windows 7 All Versions disk, Windows Vista All Versions disk, and a Windows
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USB disk for each version.
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Everything's slipstream with the newest service pads out at the time.
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So I have a slipstream version of a USB home with service pad 3, professional with service
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pad 3, Windows 7 All Versions disk with service pad, whatever it's up to now, one or two.
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I can't even remember if it was set down to the install with Windows 7.
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And creating a Windows 7 All Versions disk is easiest can be, I just, I'll get into that
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with another podcast.
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And in some ways, I'm going to tell you how to create your own All Versions Windows 7
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install disk.
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Another thing I can keep on me is my flash drives with portable app suites.
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And basically these portable app suites are applications that do not have to be installed
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on the host machine.
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I'm just plugging my flash drive.
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They run entirely on my flash drive.
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Everything writes to my flash drive, logs, user settings, everything is on my flash drive.
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And I use a launcher for these, you don't have to use a launcher, you can just go into
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each folder and open it manually.
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A launcher just puts it in our little, do it and just click the program I want, it launches
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it for me.
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And I use the portable apps.com launcher, available app, portable apps.com.
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And I use the older version that doesn't allow theming and whatnot, but the newest version
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while staming has an app store and it's a portable app marketplace, which is free, open-source
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software, freeware, portable apps that you can download and install to your flash drive.
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Or if you wanted to install it on even your home machine, so you would have a dirty registry
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at any time, your registry would be nice, clean and crisp.
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And on it, I keep it a couple of apps that I'm just going to throw out there, no pad
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plus plus, portable version, I'll also keep an USB web server for V8, which is a mystuel
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and Apache server, runs under Windows, and runs off my flash drive, so if I'm wanting
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to test something or if I'm working on some PHP scripts or something, I can do it only
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to go from whatever computer I might be sitting at and keep all my files with me.
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Also, there's a couple of games that keep on there, but as this is dear for TIT, it's
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unrestrip over the games, for graphics.
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I do keep a version of Kim portable with me, I don't try not to do data on the graphics
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on the go.
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I generally just went to a home to do my graphic work if I have to.
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I think definitely FileZilla portable is a must that I have an FTP client, if I have
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the FTP into my home server to download another disc or so, I may not have with me at the
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moment.
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I also keep a Mozilla Firefox portable edition, which is a rewrite, so everything says to
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my flash drive.
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It allows me to keep my foot, my arts and everything with me on the go at all times, and I keep
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my hand to I in there, so I can chat with AOL and MSN Yahoo users, IRC, the whole nine
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yards.
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I'm a flash drive, I need to call help from somebody.
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I don't have a phone number for them, I find them on one of the networks.
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I'll keep Puddy portable, which is a portable version of the Puddy client, which is a lightweight
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tone and SSH client for working with remote-linear systems, or just tone that into something
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that I need to work on.
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U-TWORP portable is on there as well, even though I don't really use that much.
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I keep it on there in case I have to download a Lentist Show or something, and that offers
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a .tWORP file.
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I'll do that to save them the bandwidth on their host.
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If I can editing, I keep audacity portable in case I need to edit a podcast on the go,
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or if I can have something just come across in the middle of a writing or something in
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a car, I can hook up my laptop, lower my flash drive or rather do not have audacity in
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the store, and I can just run the audacity portable off the flash drive and start recording.
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I keep co-player plus portable, which is a lightweight, fast, easy to use audio player.
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I just like his layout, it's real slick and clean.
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They do have VLC media player, portable and some other portable media players.
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I just kind of fell in love with co-player plus for listening music.
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Office suite.
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I don't normally carry an office suite on a flash drive, even though they do have open
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office portable out for it.
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They also have a bunch of other stuff like sticky portable, to-do list portable, test coach
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portals, some mantra PDF portable and POTS at reader portable, which I personally do carry
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POTS at with me for reading PDFs on the fly-up and client machine does not have Adobe
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or something else.
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Security wise, there's a spybot search and destroy portable version, which I keep on
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there.
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I would not advise running any spyware removals from your flash drive copy to the hard drive
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and rather from the hard drive, it runs much faster, much easier, but I keep it on there
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and keep it updated readily in case I have a lot of machine that has so much malware
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I cannot download and run spybot.
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Also they have the open source, antivirus, clam, portable, available.
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I generally don't carry that as I prefer, but I also have security essentials on a Windows
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machine, as I've never had a problem with it myself.
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And then there's also, I have a command prompt portable, which is just, all it does is
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make shortcut to the command prompt on that computer and then it opens up with some arguments
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so I don't have my foreground text and background color change like I like it, which is black background
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green, foreground, or green text.
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I have CAM Studio portable, which is a screen recorder and video producer software,
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sign the record screen, crystal disk info and crystal disk mark portable, which is a
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disk health monitoring tool and a disk benchmark utility.
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And I also have a slower plus plus, which is a multi tab file manager, very handy to have
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if you are going to be dealing with a ton of files and multiple folders, multiple locations
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and you like tab browsing, a slower plus plus is a definite must have.
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Also run, Rebo uninstall portable, which is an easy to use, uninstall or highly recommended.
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I have a team be reportable, in case I have to team be wearing a mirror, dust off at the
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house.
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All I'm thinking about removing that and nothing just to RDP connections only.
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I also have, let's see if I find another software that I'm missing telling you guys about
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System Viewer or System Information Viewer.
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It's a extremely ashympath, task viewer, process explorer, killer, and debugger.
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It even had, they had their own database of safe, safe processes and you can check it,
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unknown process with their database and see what other users is ready to get, whether
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there's good, bad, malware or whatever it may be.
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Number of pretty much portable apps I run that are available from portableapps.com forward
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slash apps and that's the portable app thread or either there's also numerous of those
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either there's portable, prettyware.com and there's a bunch of places, just a doodle search
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for portable apps will show you numerous places to find a bunch of apps.
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Some of them, like somebody went and made a devc++, a bloodshed devc++ portable version.
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It's test link, download download link, give me a download link, not even sure if it's
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good to have that but it is available.
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So a doodle search for portable apps will turn up a lot of interesting things.
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And also keep a set of needle nose pliers with me and just some ranges and what not.
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In case they've got to work on installing a rat mount case or something else, if I got
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actually mouse servers or whatever it may be, I also have one other bad that I keep in
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my throat and it's got alcohol and whatnot.
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It's got some rubbing alcohol, it's got some special stuff they sell for a refurbishing
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a rubber belt for like a printer or something.
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I keep it in my printer repair kit, it's got Q-tips, paper towels.
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I use it for just cleaning up a printer if I think that's the issue with one of them.
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That's pretty much what I carry in my bag that I take to a shop or in my pocket on my
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flash drives.
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I also have my laptop bag which has my laptop with all my ISOs on it which is a dolewood
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machine from Ubuntu 11 and also Windows 7 Ultimate.
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As I've found people in my area do not use a lot of Linux so I'm having to stay up to
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date with most of the Windows stuff as well as a repair technician.
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This is just my small episode on what I carry with me and what tools I have, what portable
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apps I use and recording this.
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I'm hoping someone may find something useful or that will help them save time in the long
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run.
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In a later episode again I'm probably going to get into more detail on how to create
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your own Windows 7 all versions of this and how to do live USB media, I don't know,
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Windows 7 how to create a live boot disk on a USB flash drive.
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Hope you enjoyed this list, this broadcast and this is Digital Maniac out.
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