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by WallyFunk 914 days ago
I have the Gandalf rescue ISO[0] on this, among many other ISOs I use incase I need to repair/rescue or install stuff. My Ventoy setup is a veritable 'Swiss army knife' for general IT related things. The Gandalf Windows preinstalled environment has all this bundled with it, if anyone's interested:

    Tools/Utilities included on this Windows PE:
    AoMei Partition Assistant: Partitioning solution
    WinRAR: Powerful archiver and archive manager
    7-Zip: Archiver and archive manager
    Defraggler: Disk Defragmenter
    MS Paint and Wordpad: Microsoft’s basic image and text editors
    Macrium Reflect: Backup and disk imaging solution
    CCleaner: System optimization, privacy and cleaning tool
    Media Player Classic: Classic Windows media player
    HWiNFO: Hardware information and diagnostic tool
    Snipping Tool: Screen capture application.
    Windows Defender: Microsoft’s excellent antivirus app
    TeamViewer: Remote control solution
    Double Drive: Driver backup application
    Winmerge: File comparison tool
    Opera: Web Browser, Fast, simple and safe way to get around on the web
    GetRight: Download manager
    Ntpwedit: Change or remove passwords for local system accounts
    Partition Wizard
    Virtual Keyboard
    Virtual Magnifying Glass
    DiskCryptor: Disk encryption application similar to Bitlocker
    Bitlocker: Microsoft’s disk encryption application
    Powershell: Powerful automation tool is both a shell and a scripting language
    UltraISO: Directly edit ISO files, make images from CD/DVD-ROM
    Unlocker: Unlocker helps delete locked files with error messages
    Gimagex: A graphical user interface for the ImageX tool
    SuperAntiSpyWare: Free Malware Remover
    Magic Jelly Bean Key Finder: A utility that retrieves your Product Keys
    HiJackThis: Spot home page hijackers and startup programs
    Ghost: The classic imaging tool
    Skype: Provides video chat and voice calls
    VNC Viewer: Remote Control Software
    Sysinternal Suite Troubleshooting Utilities
    VLC Media Player: Open-source cross-platform multimedia player
    IrfanView Image Viewer
    FastStone Image Viewer: User-friendly image browser, converter and editor
    Mozilla FireFox: Another great browser
    Easy BCD: Boot management tool and bcd editor
    Snipping Tool: Take snapshots
    Drive Snapshot: Disk imaging solution
    MyLan Viewer: Network/IP Scanner
    Rufus: Utility to format and create bootable USB flash drives
    Wise Data Recovery: Recovery program to get back deleted photos, documents, etc.
    WinToolkit: Customize Your Windows Installation
    ImgBurn: CD burning tool
    Treesize: Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs
    Klite Codec Pack Basic
    RecoverKeys: Retrieves your Product Keys
    Remote Desktop: Latest version of Windows remote desktop
    DismGui: Dism with a graphical interface
    Klite Codec Pack Basic
    Google Chrome: Great Browser
    Powershell: Automation scripting
[0] https://www.fcportables.com/gandalf-boot-iso/