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Lightweight tools, cheat sheets and practical guides for everyday infrastructure management,
automation, and troubleshooting tasks.


Tool categories

Encoding tools

Tools for encoding, decoding, and transforming text data.

Data utilities

Utilities for formatting, converting, and validating structured data.

Security tools

Small utilities for hashes, checks, and security-related operations.


Network tools

Tools for quick network diagnostics and infrastructure checks.

DNS tools

Utilities for DNS records, domain lookups, and name resolution tasks.

System Tools

Diagnostic and AI-powered utilities for Windows system analysis.


Latest posts

Troubleshooting Sep 15, 2026

vssadmin in Windows: shadow copies, VSS writers and why backups fail

Almost every backup on Windows is taken from a shadow copy rather than from the live volume. The…

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Guides Sep 14, 2026

bcdedit in Windows: read the BCD store and edit boot entries safely

bcdedit is the only editor Windows ships for the Boot Configuration Data store: the binary database that replaced…

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About this project

Hi, I’m Zaur — a system administrator working mainly with Windows infrastructure, VMware, AWS, automation, and troubleshooting.

This website brings together practical tools, cheat sheets, and technical guides based on real-world infrastructure work.

The goal is simple: help system administrators solve everyday tasks faster.