Freeware Utilities
I’m always looking for more utilities to add to my arsenal for scripting, automating and generally freeing up time for other tasks, like sipping a fresh coffee ;^) Over the past few months I’ve been pointed to, or found, four more sites chock full of tasty utilities. AnalogX has a varied collection covering network, system, programming, even [...]
Surveying a Linux System, Part 3 – Usage
This is the last in my Linux survey trifecta, examining current usage, plus a bit of troubleshooting. As with both the hardware and software posts, you may need to run some of these as root and your mileage may vary, since not all distros are alike. Show a list of recent logins # last Process [...]
Software in my Binder
Earlier this year I covered what items I carry in my backpack, this time it’s about what software I carry in my soft-sided TechNet folder. Of course there’s the usual operating system and application disks, but there are a number of rescue and utility disks as well… Operating Systems and Applications Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 2003 [...]
Symantec AntiVirus Runtime Error!
Earlier this year, a customer kept getting this error when rebooting: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: C\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\Rtvscan.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team for more information. Luckily the fix isn’t too painful… Go to a command prompt and run wbemtest [...]
SQL Server Management Studio Express
Who doesn’t love free? I certainly do. Microsoft has offered a great free version of its flagship database software, MS SQL, for quite some time now. And up until a few years ago it didn’t have a GUI front-end, but Microsoft fixed that with the release of SQL Server Management Studio Express. Now out of [...]
AD Recycle Bin Tool
Last year Windows IT Pro magazine highlighted ADRecycleBin from Overall Solutions. It’s an excellent free utility to bring back deleted items (or reanimate for earlier Active Directory installations than 2008 R2). It’s a very nice alternative to the built-in feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 and is a drastic improvement over item recovery in earlier versions of [...]
Sysinternals
If you’re in IT working with Windows and haven’t heard of Sysinternals, you may want to check to see if you’ve been living under a rock. Sysinternals started as the community or free arm of Winternals, the money making portion of the company. Microsoft purchased Winternals back in 2006 for its IP and brain-trust. Mark [...]
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