Caine Hörr
Information Technology Professional
September 26, 2011I accepted a full-time position with iSEC Partners / NCC Group as their North American Information Technology Manager.
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My Windows Tool Kit
I thought I’d share with the community at large some of the FREE (or Lite) Windows-based IT software and hardware tools that I enjoy using. Without further ado, here are some of my favorites, complete with download links (where applicable)!
Links denoted with * refer to applications available for download directly from this web site because either the product is discontinued, too difficult to find elsewhere, or both.
SOFTWARE TOOLS
TOOL DESCRIPTION Active KillDisk Hard Drive wiping utility Astroburn Lite CD/DVD burning utility Belarc Advisor Windows audit utility Bitcricket Subnet Calculator * IPv4 and IPv6 subnet calculator CDBurnerXP CD/DVD burning utility Cisco Network Assistant Utility for routers, switches, and access points DAEMON Tools Lite Optical media emulation utility DBAN Hard Drive wiping utility DiskDigger All-in-one undelete and recover utility EditPad Lite Portable, color-coded text editor FATWalker FAT partition analyzer FileZilla FTP, FTPS and SFTP client Hiren’s Boot CD Multi-Purpose Windows boot CD/Rescue disc HxD Hex editor iExplorer iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch File Browser IntelliAdmin Remote Desktop Enabler Remotely enable Windows RDP services IntelliAdmin Remote Reboot Remotely shutdown/reboot Windows systems ISO Recorder Create ISO files from CD/DVD media KeyTool IUI * Create, manage, encrypt/decrypt SSL keys & certificate files Mactracker Apple device reference guide Microsoft Server 2003 Admin Pack Server 2000/2003 MMC snap-in admin tools for Windows XP Microsoft Sysinternals NewSid 4.10 * Windows XP SID changer from Sysinternals Microsoft Sysinternals Process Explorer Suite of various IT related tools Microsoft Windows XP PowerToys PowerToys for Windows XP NirSoft CurrPorts Monitor open TCP/IP network ports and connections Nmap Network exploration and security auditing utility NTFSWalker NTFS partition analyzer Password Safe Encrypted password manager/vault PuTTY Telnet/SSH client RealVNC VNC Client and Server TightVNC VNC client Trinity Rescue Kit Multi-Purpose Windows boot CD/Rescue disc Oracle VirtualBox x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization environment visionapp Remote Desktop v1.5 * Microsoft Windows RDP management application Wake On LAN Wake On LAN utility WinDiff File comparison tool WinSCP SFTP/FTP client Wireshark Network protocol analyzer XYNTService * Run Windows applications as a service SOFTWARE SUITES
While I specifically chose to represent certain tools and utilities, many of these vendors provide additional tools that you may find useful and/or interesting. Here are links to these vendor’s “parent” sites: