Utilities

Troubleshooting Utilities

Single point download

• Ninite [1] Let's you download a bunch of useful tools all at once.

Browsers

• Chrome [2]
• Firefox [3]

FTP

• WinSCP [4]

Telnet

• KiTTY [5]
• PuTTY [6]

LDAP

• LDAPBrowser [7] make sure to choose LDAPBrowser not LDAPAdministrator.
• EWSEditor [8] is a powerful and more dangerous tool that LDAP Browser since it can change entries.

Text Editors

• NotePad++ [9] Free, can open large log files
• TextEdit [10] Evaluation, can open large log files, good search capablities
• glogg [11] free, can open really large log files
• EditPad Lite [12] free, big files
• VIM for Windows [13] free.
• PilotEdit Lite [14]
• 010 Editor [15]
• slickedit [16]
• Log Expert [17]

Log Tailing

• baretail [18] for tailing a log while it is running

Office suite

• LibreOffice [19] good for editing csv files.

Database

• Toad for MySQL [20]

Microsoft

• BGInfo [21] puts server info on desktop.
• RAMMap [22] shows how windows is assigning physical RAM.

Disk

• WinDirStat [23] 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 [24] more efficient then windows zip.

Remote Desktop

• RealVNC [25] to connect to Linux boxes remotely. Remember to enable Remote in YaST and add IPAddr:5901 when trying to get in.

PDF

• Adobe Reader [26]
• CutePDFWriter [27] has a PDF printer which is good for testing.