Utilities

Troubleshooting Utlities

Various Utilities

Let's you download a bunch of useful tools all at once

• Ninite [1]

Browsers

• Chrome [2]
• Firefox [3]

FTP

• WinSCP [4]

Telnet

• KiTTY [5]
• PuTTY [6]

LDAP

• LDAPBrowser [7]

Text Editors

• NotePad++ [8] Free, can open large log files
• TextEdit [9] Evaluation, can open large log files, good search capablities
• glogg [10] free, can open really large log files
• baretail [11] for tailing a log while it is running.

Office suite

• LibreOffice [12] good for editing csv files.

Database

• Toad for MySQL [13]

Microsoft

• BGInfo [14] puts server info on desktop.
• RAMMap [15] shows how windows is assigning physical RAM.

Disk

• WinDirStat [16] Windows directory size statistics. This can return data on the archive folder, but it will take significant time, about 8 hours for 2.4M files in 2.3M sub-directories.

Compression

7zip [17] more efficient then windows zip.

Remote Desktop

RealVNC [18] to connect to Linux boxes remotely. Remember to enable Remote in YaST and add IPAddr:5901 when trying to get in.

PDF

Adobe Reader [19] CutePDFWriter [20] has a PDF printer which is good for testing.