It's like the furniture, let your wife decide where it goes. You both will be happier with the placement.... :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Steven M. Caesare To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:11 AM Subject: RE: Favorite Tools
I can't find a comfortable location for that thing. -sc From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite Tools iVibe Rabbit is a big hit around our house. From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favorite Tools I am always looking for cool new tools to add to my tool bag that I take with me to clients. Here is a list of some of my most used tools. If you have some tools that you use a lot please share. Thanks. SpinRite Boot CD - Hard Disk recovery tool http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm GParted Live - Resize partitions http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Knoppix 5.11 - Live linux boot CD with a ton of tools. http://www.knoppix.net/ UBCD for Windows - Run windows xp from a CD. Has a ton of tools http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Offline NT Password & Registry Editor - Boot CD that can change local account passwords http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Kon-Boot - Log into any local or domain account on a pc without a password. Very cool tool. http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/ Acronis True Image with Universal Restore - Disk Imaging tool http://www.acronis.com/ HDClone Pro - Hard Drive cloning tool http://www.hdclone.com/ Malwarebytes - Anti-Virus/Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/ VIPRE Rescue - Anti-Virus/Malware http://live.sunbeltsoftware.com/ JKDefrag-3.36/MyDefrag-4.0 - Hard Drive Defrag program http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/ Sysinternals - An sysadmin's best friend http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx Putty - Telnet/SSH Client http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ nmap - Security/Port scanner http://nmap.org/ Superscan 3.0 - fast little port scanner. A quick way to tell whats on the network. http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/superscan3.htm Wireshark - sniffer http://www.wireshark.org/ Lua BugLight - For finding out where a program hangs with it run under restricted mode. http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2006/08/07/LuaBuglight.aspx Belarc Advisor - Audits installed software, list keys, hardware, Microsoft patches, ect and generates a report. *** this tool is for home use only according to their website **** http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html DBAN - Securely wipes hard drives to DOD standards http://www.dban.org/ Virtual Box - Run Virtual Machines. I use it to run everything from Windows 95 to Windows 7, and Ubuntu. What's best is it has 3D support for windows and Linux so it's functional and pretty. http://www.virtualbox.org/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
