Windows Utilities

Utilities

There are a number of useful utilities for Windows that may be installed:

Log Tailing

Being able to watch a log while it is running is very useful

• baretail [1] Free
• Log Expert [2] also edits

Text Editors

Windows built in text editor Notepad is good enough for dealing with small files, but logs files can become larger then it can handle so another text editor is useful to have on hand.

• NotePad++ [3] Free, can open large log files
• TextEdit [4] Evaluation, can open large log files, good search capablities
• glogg [5] Free, can open log files >2GB
• EditPad Lite [6] Free
• VIM for Windows [7] Free
• PilotEdit Lite [8]
• 010 Editor [9]
• slickedit [10]

Browsers

We generally support the big three browsers:

• Chrome [11]
• Firefox [12]

FTP

File Transfer Protocol lets you tranfer files between computers, but Windows does not have a good built-in solution.

• WinSCP [13]

Telnet

• KiTTY [14]
• PuTTY [15]
• MTPuTTY Multi tabbed PuTTY [16]

LDAP

• LDAPBrowser [17] make sure to choose LDAPBrowser not LDAPAdministrator.
• EWSEditor [18] is a powerful and more dangerous tool that LDAP Browser since it can change entries.

Office suite

• LibreOffice [19] good for editing csv files.

Database

• Toad for MySQL [20]

Microsoft

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

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.

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