I tell yah, that 2GB USB drive is about the best tool I've ever bought. On my recent trip to Pittsburg we were replacing every PC in the building (200+), and were migrating users data. Well the damn file server filled up! Without that drive I would have been screwed, as there was no trust relationship between the old domain / PCs and the new. It would have been a bitch.
I thought of a few other things -Spinrite Great for checking for hard drive failure -Analog X Max Mem Its a older program but for computers with lower amounts of ram its great at freeing it up -nLite and MSFN's Unattended Windows : Unattended Windows Introduction for making formatting quicker
Funny you should mention that, Dell just sent me a free one. Their bean counters did the math and figured out they would save a lot of money if all Dell certified techs had power supply testers and weren't ordering motherboards by mistake.
Very handy tool if you need to get into a win2k/xp/vista system that is password protected: Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
Ali, check out this program/Live CD. This one will display the passwords that are allready set in the SAM. Encrypted SAM or not. I think the one you posted only lets you change them? Ophcrack
Just a link I came across while browsing another forum.... Free Windows Add-Ons & Updates : PCversusMac.com / PCnMac.com / XPvsX.com
There's a powertoy for Windows XP that I didn't know about till lately. Cleartype Tuner. Also, I've switched from Zipgenius (resource hog and behaves badly with corrupt/incomplete RAR files) to PeaZip. It's ten billion times better, just from the little time I've spent with it.
since it's been over a year since the last post on here. anything anybody would add to this list? I'll have to read over this thread again and see if I can think of anything.
I think defraggler is great. Started using it on all my comps lately. I have it run scheduled defrags weekly on my server.
Forgot about this sticky...Not sure if they've been mentioned but I love the new Hiren's CD with minixp. I also use these daily: combofix, ccleaner, trojan remover, MS security essentials.
Microsoft Exploit Mitigation Experience Toolkit, version 2.1. It's officially supported by Microsoft, too.
