A portable IT technician command center for Windows.
Copy the folder to any Windows PC, double-click one file, and work. Nineteen tools in one window: diagnose network faults, trace a mail problem from MX to blacklist, find what is eating a drive, recover deleted files, strip a program out completely, recover product keys, block a bad Windows update, and hand the customer a printable report — with no installer and no dependencies.
Will you need to test a bootable USB or an ISO while you are out?
Worth deciding now rather than on site. Both downloads are the same nineteen tools; the larger one has the virtual machine packed in, so it still works on a bench with no internet — which is the wrong thing to discover in somebody's front room.
Everything TechDeck does: network and mail diagnosis, disk analysis, file recovery, deep uninstalls, product keys, the Windows USB builder. A folder you copy, use, and delete afterwards.
Download TechDeckBoot a stick or an ISO you have just built, watch Windows install itself, and confirm the apps landed — before you go anywhere near a customer's machine. Nothing to switch on and no restart: it does not touch Hyper‑V or any Windows feature, and works the same on Windows Home. The virtual machine is fetched by TechDeck itself, once, the first time you open the Test Lab — so do it here rather than on site.
Download TechDeck127.0.0.1, reachable only from that PC.
TechDeck-v1.46.2\), so a copy always tells you which build it is and two
versions can sit side by side.TechDeck.vbs
Accept the administrator prompt. No console window ever appears — the only thing you
see is TechDeck itself.node.exe into TechDeck’s own folder,
with a progress window — no installer, no PATH change, nothing added to the machine. Do that
once on a PC with internet and the folder is drop-and-run anywhere afterwards, offline.
Tests the whole chain — adapter, router, internet, DNS server, name lookup, HTTPS. The first red link is the diagnosis. Plus Wi-Fi signal, channel congestion, ping, traceroute and one-click repairs.
Hard timeouts, so a black-holed port never hangs you. Tells closed (refused) apart from filtered (silently dropped) — the difference between a server problem and a firewall.
The MXToolbox jobs, run locally: MX, SPF with a real lookup count against the limit of ten, DKIM, DMARC, thirteen blacklists and a live SMTP session that reads the TLS certificate. Nothing is sent to a third-party API.
TreeSize-style analysis at roughly 80,000 files per second — 630k files and 1.3 TB in under 8 seconds. Zoomable treemap, duplicate finder, stale files. Right-click a big folder and it knows whether that folder is an installed program, Steam or Xbox game — and the full Ultimate Uninstall opens right there, components and all.
Three layers: every user’s Recycle Bin, a raw NTFS undelete that reads the Master File Table directly, and free-space carving with text search that recovers data whose file record is long gone.
Removal in three phases: analyse every component (folder, registry, services, tasks, shortcuts), run the vendor uninstaller correctly, then sweep the leftovers — each one backed up first. Anything shared with another installed program is shown but never pre-selected. Opens in place from a right-click in Disk Explorer, so you never go hunting for the program you just found. Dedicated Office and Adobe removal included.
145 common admin jobs as fill-in-the-blanks forms — Exchange, Entra ID, Teams, SharePoint, Azure and this machine. Search by what you need (“calendar”, “password”, “hacked”), not by cmdlet. Every box is labelled by role with a hint saying which person belongs in it, a plain-English line says what will happen, and the exact command is shown before you press Run. Read-only answers come back as real tables, destructive ones offer an Undo, and everything you run is recorded in a searchable history.
Recover the keys already on a machine before you rebuild it. Windows OEM firmware key, decoded installed key, Office and third-party. Flags a “key” that is really just the public generic one.
Shows the optional updates too — preview builds and optional drivers, which Windows never installs on its own and which a single-criteria search cannot even see. Remove an update that broke something and block it, because Windows reinstalls an uninstalled update on the next scan. Blocked updates get their own list you can review and undo.
Measures junk before deleting it, manages startup programs and services, and runs SFC / DISM / CHKDSK with a real progress bar instead of a wall of scrolling text.
19 reversible toggles for the everyday complaints — the Windows 11 right-click menu, file extensions, web search in Start, Fast Startup. Every one shows its current state and undoes cleanly.
Drag-and-drop HEIC to JPEG — the “iPhone photos won’t open” job. Keeps EXIF and timestamps, so a converted library still sorts correctly.
SMART disk health, battery wear, antivirus and firewall posture, crash timeline, bloatware — then one click for a printable report you can hand the customer. Every health score is clickable: it shows exactly which points were lost and what earns them back. Update history comes from the Windows Update agent rather than Get‑HotFix, which on a current machine reported 7 installs out of 955.
127.0.0.1 only and refuses any non-local connection.
The invisible half of somebody’s machine, captured into one folder and put back on the new one: mapped drives, printers, Wi-Fi keys, Quick Access pins, taskbar, Outlook autocomplete, bookmarks and history, Office templates, ODBC, startup. It picks its own destination — OneDrive first, so the bundle syncs to the new PC by itself. Honest about the four things no tool can move: saved passwords, Credential Manager, BitLocker keys and machine identity are written down for the customer instead.
Every device with its driver version and date, with Windows’ own plumbing filtered out so the real hardware is visible — 90 devices instead of 241. Translates Windows’ error codes into plain English, spots hardware limping on a fallback driver, and installs the vendor drivers Windows Update is holding back as optional. Knows that Microsoft stamps every in-box driver 2006, so a fresh install is never reported as twenty years out of date.
Sixty standard applications, installed or updated in one unattended pass via Ninite — current versions, straight from each maker, every bundled toolbar declined on the way past. It already knows what this machine has, so one click ticks everything installed and brings the lot up to date. The installer’s signature is verified before it is allowed to run.