In this article I have collected some of the tools already published and dedicated to system administrators.
This collection was divided by applications for management systems, office, network management and specific tools for security.
Category | Description | Download Page |
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| Networking | The TCP/IP Mananger is a nice software designed to help computer users keep track of their network configuration in different locations. TCP/IP Manager is an open source application designed to help computer users keep track of their network configuration in different locations, and switch from one network to another easily. | Download |
| Networking | Technitium MAC changer. is a simple tool to Change your MAC Address. Each network interface on your computer or any other networked device has a unique MAC address. MAC means “media access control” and it is referred a physical addresses. Sometimes could be necessary to change the MAC address for avoid MAC Address filtering, device tracking or change the router device authentication. This tool allows you to change Media Access Control (MAC) Address of your Network Interface Card (NIC) instantly. | Download |
| Networking | PingHurry is a nice that allows to run ping and trace route tools in a graph window ( flat or 3D view ), it accepts IP addresses and host names. If your job requires to do connectivity checks several times a day, then this is the right tool for you. With PingHurry a ping/trace/reverse lookup task is one hotkey away, just show/hide the PingHurry window by using the hotkey or system tray icon. It has several other features like zooming in the flat graph, IPconfig info, flush dns etc.. | Download |
| Networking | Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. Originally known as Ethereal , Wireshark is particularly helpful for network troubleshooting, using a graphical front-end allows to see all traffic being passed over the network. | Download |
| Security | PWGen is a professional password generator capable of generating large amounts of cryptographically-secure passwords—“classical” passwords, pronounceable passwords, pattern-based passwords, and passphrases consisting of words from word lists. PWGen provides lots of options to customize passwords to the users’ various needs. Additionally, it offers strong text encryption and the creation of random data files. | Download |
| Security | A Virtual Keyboard Against Keyloggers: The freeware tool called Neo’s SafeKeys allows to show a virtual keyboard on the screen and transferring the characters you selected with your mouse. This is one of the most secure method because you are not using your keyboard or your clipboard. | Download |
| VHD Mgmt | Boot your PC from a virtual drive with Simple VHD Manager: Simple Vhd Manager is a tiny portable tool which makes it easier to access and use virtual drives (VHD, VHDX). This tool help you to simplify some operations; Attach – detach Vhd – vhdx – iso Files (Drag and drop) , Permanently Attach a Virtual Hard Disk in Windows 7 , Windows 8 , Windos 8.1 , Windows 10. Add vhd – vhdx – iso files to the Boot menu. Remove vhd – vhdx – iso files from the Boot menu. | Download |
| ISO Mgmt | WinCDEmu - Mount and create ISO Files : WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator,a tool that allows you to mount optical disc images by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer. If you have downloaded an ISO image and want to use it without burning it to a blank disc, WinCDEmu is the easiest way to do it. | Download |
| Server Mgmt | Manage Easily Dozens of Remote Desktop Connections: RD Tabs is a Remote Access Software product from Avianwaves.com. This freeware tool allows to manage and organize many Windows Remote Desktops connections using a Tab view. | Download |
| Office | Vivaldi browser: Vivaldi is a new web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Opera Software co-founder. This browser has a minimalistic user interface with basic icons and fonts, and a color scheme that changes based on the background and design of the web page being visited. | Download |
| Office | ProjectLibre (previously known as OpenProj) is an open source alternative to Microsoft Project. It is compatible with MS Project 2003, 2007, and 2010. It also supports several languages. | Download |
| Office | FeedDemon is a nice RSS reader for Windows, I find it helpful to stay informed with my favorites websites. Features: Tagging - Assign your own keywords to items, making it easy to classify and locate articles you've previously read. Watches - Tell FeedDemon to let you know when your keywords appear in any feed you're subscribed to. Search Feeds - Get alerted when your keywords appear in any feed, regardless of whether you're subscribed to it. Podcasts - Let FeedDemon automatically download audio files and copy them to your iPod or other media device. | Download |
| Office | Automatic Printer Switcher is an helpful tool that allows to easily manage different printers connected to one pc. The free program can be used to link a program or document type with a specific printer. Particularly useful for users in large network with more than one printer connected to their PC. The use is easy, execute the Automatic Printer Switcher tool, map application to the desired printer, then leave the tool running in the system tray. When In any case , you can change the assigned printers to different applications | Download |
| Office | Calibre program is a nice software for managing ebooks and documents in digital edition. This open source application allows you to organise, save and manage e-books, in a variety of formats. It also convert and sync ebooks with many popular ebook readers. Calibre supports the conversion of many input formats to many output formats. It can convert every input format in the following list, to every output format. Device supported: full support for the SONY PRS 300/500/505/600/700/900, Barnes & Noble Nook, Cybook Gen 3/Opus, Amazon Kindle , Entourage Edge, Longshine ShineBook, Ectaco Jetbook, BeBook/BeBook Mini, Irex Illiad/DR1000, Foxit eSlick, PocketBook 360, Italica, eClicto, Iriver Story, Airis dBook, Hanvon N515, Binatone Readme, Teclast K3, various Android phones and the iPhone. In addition, using the Save to disk function you can use it with any ebook reader that exports itself as a USB disk. | Download |
| Printers | The Universal Viewer, a Quick and Easy File Viewer: If you have problems opening a file with a unknown file format, try Universal Viewer utility. This tool is a nice advanced file viewer to open a wide range of file formats. Easy to use, fully integrated into Windows Explorer's context menu, to view a file just right-click on a file and select "Universal Viewer" item. | Download |
| Disk Stats | WinDirStat is a free and open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size, The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away, The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types. | Download |