7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
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Acronis True Image with Universal Restore – Disk Imaging tool
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Belarc Advisor – Audits installed software, list keys, hardware, Microsoft patches, and generates a report
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Clonezilla is an OpenSource clone system with unicasting and multicasting! Goodbye to Ghost
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CPUz. Accurate PC motherboard, RAM, graphics card details and MUCH more without opening up the box
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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.
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DBAN – Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.
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Desktop Restore is a tiny shell extension that records the position of your desktop icons and lets you easily restore your favorite desktop layout.
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ExamDiff is a good file-comparison tool
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File-Rescue Plus is an easy to use recovery utility to remotely scan WindowsHard Drives, and removable media
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GParted is the GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.
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InfraRecorder is a graphical tool for burning ISO images. Supports many DVD and CD drives that are available, burn ISO images, CDs and DVDs.
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Iometer is great to pound on hard drives – a good I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool
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Kdiff3 is a file-comparison tool that does unicode, editing, directories and 3 way merge, all for free.
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Kon-Boot – Log into any local or domain account on a pc without a password. Very cool tool.
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Lansweeper is a network inventory tool that performs hardware scanning, software scanning, and reporting on Active Directory (AD) users. Needs SQL.
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LUA BugLight – For finding out where a program hangs with it run under restricted mode so you can make system changes
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MyDefrag-4.0 – Flexible Hard Drive Defrag program with a scripting language
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Nmap Security Scanner version 5.00.
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Norton removal tool. LOL:
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Notepad++ features a tabbed interface, syntax highlighting for all popular programming and scripting languages, bracket matching, and macro recording.
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Offline NT Password & Registry Editor – Boot CD that can change local account passwords
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Paint.NET is a huge improvement over Windows’ built-in Paint program for image manipulation.
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Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list.
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PEESR – Periodic Emailed Event Summary Report. Order today and save 10% with coupon code SUNB-PXTO-SAUG
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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.
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SpinRite Boot CD – Hard Disk recovery tool
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Sunbelt Sandbox. Upload suspicious files to the Sunbelt Labs and have them scanned. Similar to VirusTotal
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Superscan 3.0 – fast little port scanner. A quick way to tell whats on the network.
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Sysinternals – An sysadmin’s best friend – especially Process Explorer that shows why a PC is slow
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Total Commander is a powerful shareware file manager for all flavors of Windows
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TrueCrypt. Brilliant file and whole-disk encryption
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UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem.
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Ultimate Boot CD has over 100 tools for diagnostics and repair.
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Ultra VNC. Say no more:
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UltraTech’s list of tools that needs some updating but has dozens of popular tools and their links
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USB Deview. Untangle all those devices sensibly. In fact, most of Nir’s utilities are pretty good
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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
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VirtualBox is a powerful, free x86 virtualization tool for Windows, Linux and more
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Voidtools – everything search engine. Locate files and folders by name instantly.
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WinDirStat is a very good disk space usage visualization and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows
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Windows Installer CleanUp Utility for failed or partially installed software
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Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer (sniffer), used in many industries and educational institutions.
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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.
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ZoomIt lets you magnify portions of your screen while doing demos and presos, as well as draw on and annotate the screen.
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