ArcForge First Response

A lightweight PowerShell-based Windows health-check toolkit for gamers, creators, developers, homelabbers, secure workstations, and IT pros who want to quickly verify that a PC is ready for work, gaming, or production.

Project Goal

ArcForge First Response is a free Windows battlestation readiness and troubleshooting toolkit. Run ArcForge to check system health, networking, core services, security basics, installed apps, and profile-specific requirements for your gaming, creator, developer, IT, secure, or homelab workstation.

The goal is to help identify common issues related to system health, uptime, storage, networking, installed tools, basic security posture, Windows Update readiness, running processes, and core Windows services.

This project started as a fictional game studio IT toolkit, but the long-term direction is broader: a practical, profile-aware workstation readiness and first-response toolkit for gaming PCs, creator workstations, developer systems, homelab admin machines, and secure desktops.

Current Features

• System information check
• Uptime check
• Process readiness check
• Top memory process visibility
• Core Windows service readiness check
• Disk space check
• Network connectivity check
• DNS resolution check
• Profile-aware software checks
• Firewall status check
• Antivirus provider detection
• Local administrator group review
• Windows Update readiness check
• Pending reboot detection
• Last installed hotfix check
• Console summary output
• TXT report export

Current Usage

Run from PowerShell at the repository root:

.\arcforge.ps1

Run a specific Battlestation Profile:

.\arcforge.ps1 -BattlestationProfile Developer

You can also run the main script directly:

.\scripts\Invoke-ArcForgeFirstResponse.ps1 -BattlestationProfile Developer