Filezilla Server

 Filezilla Server notes

Why am I fooling around with FTP? I've never bothered before.

This is still a bit slippery because and I doubt I will improve because too many good alternatives exist for my needs.

Most of the defaults seem good.

I set myself as a user and do use a password whenever asked.

During setup choose start service manually and manually start by current user. Two different steps.

You can always change the Filezilla service to manual in Windows Services.

Change port 21 to some other 5 figure port. This is probably unnecessary when using on a local network and not open to the outside.

In the allow/disallow IP section disallow * meaning all

Then allow the specific IPs or range of IPs 192.168.1.1/24 (It has to be in CIDR format which I do not pretend to understand) Use a calculator like this.

Configure passive port range and Windows firewall. Filezilla will warn of being behind NAT. 

I'm not sure the connection worked because of firewall or passive port settings because I did both.

Port

1. Open up the FileZilla GUI on your server.
2. Click on the top menu Edit → Settings.
3. From the tree menu click on Passive mode settings.
4. Now make sure the checkbox Use custom port range is checked and enter 50100 in the first box a and 51100 in the second.
5. Click OK

Firewall

firewall.cpl

1. From the tree, select Inbound Rules.
2. In the right panel, click New Rule.
3. A windows pops up, select Port and click next.
4. Make sure TCP is selected, and enter 50100-51100 in the Specific local ports field.
5. Hit Next and make sure the Allow connection option is selected. Then hit Next again.
6. Select the zones where this rule need to be applied (in my case I have selected all the zones).
7. Click Next and give this rule a recognizable name: Passive FTP Ports - FileZilla.
8. Click on Finish, and your done.

Filezilla Client worked but WinSCP connected but would not retrieve the directory.

WinSCP works well with SSH

Included in the Windows start menu are Filezilla shortcuts for starting and stopping the server. This is why I do not set up to start the server when Windows starts.

On reason would be Linux to Windows sharing. Another reason to use this would be if Windows networking is being difficult or if you do not want to Windows share a folder but you want or need access to a folder on the network for a specific PC.

But for simple file transfer over a local network Nitroshare is hard to beat for speed and handling large files.  Lanshare is sometimes workable. And I need to remember SendAnywhere 

Reference:

https://johandorper.com/log/filezilla-server-passive-ports

Can You Run Windows 11

 Download and run this

https://github.com/mq1n/Win11SysCheck/releases/tag/6

No doesn't mean "no" . . . it just means you need to do extra crap to get it working.

Ain't Windows grand?

Firestick New Hidden Developer's Menu

 I hate when they do non-standard Android.

This did not work for new interface. Can't get to all the options . . . yet

hold buttons DOWN and CENTER for five seconds. Then, release the buttons. After that, press the button MENU.

Outlook Temporary Info

 Press the Windows Key + R a run box will come up and enter
outlook.exe /safe

Fix Outlook only starts in safe mode

https://windowsreport.com/outlook-only-starts-in-safe-mode/

Try the SaRA tool

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/100607

https://www.lifewire.com/outlook-safe-mode-4164302

How to delete your profile and start fresh

https://superuser.com/questions/575124/completely-remove-outlook-up-and-start-afresh

also read this to remove profiles by using more official method

https://www.lenetek.com/blog/how-to-reset-microsoft-outlook-to-start-fresh/

Backup Outlook data file

https://www.lifewire.com/back-up-copy-contacts-outlook-1173661

Setting up new profile by adding "backup" to your old profile file

https://www.intowindows.com/outlook-2016-hangs-at-processing-starting-or-loading-profile-screen/

Medicat USB

2022-06-18 Update

Medicat installer works fine but you still need to deactivate Defender before running.

Once Medicat USB is created do not insert into an active system without disabling virus protection.

It is tempting to use a huge USB with Medicat and add a bunch of useful things but you can not plug Medicat into an active system because of some of the hack files so 64GB is good enough. 32GB is too small to add Windows install files.

With the new installer most of what I said below is obsolete.

***Caution

If you stick MediCat into a working Windows OS to edit or play around, be sure to deactivate real time protection or antivirus will delete some of the files. This is too many files for just whitelisting and not worth the time.

Ventoy Method

Had to boot in legacy for mini-Windows to work. This PC's BIOS gave me the option for legacy or UEFI on the boot menu. Bottom line is use Ventoy for simplicity unless using over 32G drive and wanting add more ISO files.

*Ventoy Method

Medicat is easier than it looks to install on a USB stick. 

. Most tutorials are in foreign language. 

. . I don't yet know how to add additional ISO files to the drive or update the menu. 

. . . Medicat has more than you will probably ever need anyway.

This seems to me the main site for Medicat

... Choose the torrent download

Download the current Ventoy and prepare a flash drive choosing the GPT partition option and the Secure Boot option. I think GPT is for booting UEFI. It booted the the Windows ISO fine with legacy BIOS for me.

Then go to the main large Ventoy partition and reformat to NTFS.

The Medicat you downloaded will have a number of zip folders. 

, Open zip-1 in 7zip and extract to the large Ventoy partition.

, , 7zip will automatically extract all of the zip folders in order.

. . . Be sure to have real time protection off.

. . . . Yes it will take for ever.

This method for E2B might be worth a try. E2B is awesome at booting on various machines.

Easy2Boot Download Here

*E2B Method

Don't' worry when you can't find "\pecmdExt.ini" file to copy. It's not there.

Remember to always run Make Drive Contiguous after adding anything. It's in root E2B.

Remember

..Working on MediCat (but not booting to) in standard Windows you need to disable real time protection.

..Then unzip and work with MediCat.

..Might as well delete the unzip if turning on protection because it will remove some MediCat files.

..Your ISO files in E2B benefit from having the *,isodef extension in E2B and not *.iso

.. If you can't see an ISO it may be that you did not run MakeDriveContiguous

When using a large drive and planning on adding other ISO files E2B is the way to go. MediCat will take up much of a 32G drive without adding anything so forget adding a Win10 install to a Ventoy MediCat on a 32G drive.

Secure Boot

. . .I hate it and forgot to turn it of on my Acer Predator laptop. It was grayed out. What the heck. I set a BIOS password and was able to turn secure boot off. Then I removed the password. Enter the password you set and hit enter on the blank new slots to have no password.

Can't Access Boot Menu

. . .Try holding shift key down when shutting down Windows before restart.

Boot Menu Keys

Added Bonus

Portable Apps Section

If you access this within your Windows system (real time turned off) and you 

Windows Product Key

2022-06-16 UKV (Ultra Virus Killer) under system info will show the key 

Open command prompt cmd

wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

I like Nirsoft's program for this but fighting the antivirus over it irritating so why bother.

This one looks good PID Key Checker 

Or this may be good enough and you don't need anything but cmd

Windows Product Key

check expiration

slmgr /xpr

type and partial key

slmgr /dli

same but more info

slmgr /dlv

Retrive key

wmic path softwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Microsoft Office In Safe Mode

 I don't use Outlook anymore but a friend could not start Outlook without admin.

He then could not drag/drop into email.

I disabled addins but it didn't help.

The only way I could fix it was starting Outlook in safe mode.

3 Ways

1. Run Box > outlook.exe /safe

2. Press and hold the Ctrl key, then select the Outlook shortcut

3.Make Shortcut

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE” /safe

Location Program Files or PF (x86) depends on if 32 or 64 bit version

I could not get the shortcut I made to work and was short on time so gave up.