| Tool Name & Description | URL |
|---|---|
| 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. | http://www.7-zip.org/ |
| Acronis True Image with Universal Restore - Disk Imaging tool | http://www.acronis.com/ |
| Belarc Advisor - Audits installed software, list keys, hardware, Microsoft patches, and generates a report | http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html |
| Clonezilla is an OpenSource clone system with unicasting and multicasting! Goodbye to Ghost | http://clonezilla.org |
| CPUz. Accurate PC motherboard, RAM, graphics card details and MUCH more without opening up the box | http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php |
| cURL a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. | http://curl.haxx.se/ |
| DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. | http://www.dban.org/ |
| Desktop Restore is a tiny shell extension that records the position of your desktop icons and lets you easily restore your favorite desktop layout. | http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm |
| ExamDiff is a good file-comparison tool | http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp |
| File-Rescue Plus is an easy to use recovery utility to remotely scan WindowsHard Drives, and removable media | http://www.softwareshelf.com/products/file_rescue_plus_enterprise.htm |
| GParted is the GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. | http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php |
| InfraRecorder is a graphical tool for burning ISO images. Supports many DVD and CD drives that are available, burn ISO images, CDs and DVDs. | http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5 |
| Iometer is great to pound on hard drives - a good I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool | http://www.iometer.org/ |
| Kdiff3 is a file-comparison tool that does unicode, editing, directories and 3 way merge, all for free. | http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ |
| 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/ |
| Lansweeper is a network inventory tool that performs hardware scanning, software scanning, and reporting on Active Directory (AD) users. Needs SQL. | http://www.lansweeper.com/ |
| LUA BugLight - For finding out where a program hangs with it run under restricted mode so you can make system changes | http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2006/08/07/LuaBuglight.aspx |
| MyDefrag-4.0 - Flexible Hard Drive Defrag program with a scripting language | http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/ |
| Nmap Security Scanner version 5.00. | http://nmap.org/ |
| Norton removal tool. LOL: | http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Uninstallers/Norton-Removal-Tool.shtml |
| Notepad++ features a tabbed interface, syntax highlighting for all popular programming and scripting languages, bracket matching, and macro recording. | http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php |
| Offline NT Password & Registry Editor - Boot CD that can change local account passwords | http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ |
| Paint.NET is a huge improvement over Windows' built-in Paint program for image manipulation. | http://www.getpaint.net/download.html |
| Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list. | http://passwordsafe.sf.net |
| PEESR - Periodic Emailed Event Summary Report. Order today and save 10% with coupon code SUNB-PXTO-SAUG | http://jntae.com/peesr/peesr.html |
| PING makes a sector-based image copy of a disk partition. The bootable PING ISO tool copies a full system disk to on a bigger disk. | http://ping.windowsdream.com |
| SpinRite Boot CD - Hard Disk recovery tool | http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm |
| Sunbelt Sandbox. Upload suspicious files to the Sunbelt Labs and have them scanned. Similar to VirusTotal | http://www.sunbeltsecurity.com |
| 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 |
| Sysinternals - An sysadmin's best friend - especially Process Explorer that shows why a PC is slow | http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx |
| Total Commander is a powerful shareware file manager for all flavors of Windows | http://www.ghisler.com/ |
| TrueCrypt. Brilliant file and whole-disk encryption | http://www.truecrypt.org |
| UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. | http://www.ubcd4win.com/ |
| Ultimate Boot CD has over 100 tools for diagnostics and repair. | http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ |
| Ultra VNC. Say no more: | http://www.uvnc.com |
| UltraTech's list of tools that needs some updating but has dozens of popular tools and their links | http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=Utils.TXT |
| USB Deview. Untangle all those devices sensibly. In fact, most of Nir's utilities are pretty good | http://www.nirsoft.net/ |
| VIPRE Rescue is a command-line utility that will scan and clean an infected computer that is so infected that programs cannot be easily run | http://live.sunbeltsoftware.com/ |
| VirtualBox is a powerful, free x86 virtualization tool for Windows, Linux and more | http://www.virtualbox.org/ |
| Voidtools - everything search engine. Locate files and folders by name instantly. | http://www.voidtools.com/ |
| WinDirStat is a very good disk space usage visualization and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows | http://windirstat.info/ |
| Windows Installer CleanUp Utility for failed or partially installed software | http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 |
| Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer (sniffer), used in many industries and educational institutions. | http://www.wireshark.org/ |
| XML Notepad is a specialized MS XML editor with a small footprint. It has a Tree View and a Node Text View and a built-in XML Diff capability. | http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=72d6aa49-787d-4118-ba5f-4f30fe913628 |
| ZoomIt lets you magnify portions of your screen while doing demos and presos, as well as draw on and annotate the screen. | http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb897434.aspx |
Source:Sunbelt Software
