Karen's LAN Monitor is a freeware tool that displays all kinds of network related information. The tool comes with...
FREE: System Information Viewer (SIV) – Displays hardware, network and Windows info

The System Information Viewer (SIV) is a freeware tool that allows you to display information about your computer in...
FREE: CPUID HWMonitor – Measures temperatures for many hardware components

I am currently in the Philippines and it is a bit hotter here than in good old cold Germany....
FREE: Q-Dir – File manager with admin features

Q-Dir is a free powerful File Manager suitable for all Windows versions. Did you ever wonder why Microsoft is...
FREE: Double Driver – Export and import device drivers

Double Driver is a free standalone tool that allows you to backup and restore device drivers. This is useful...
FREE: Core Configurator 2.0 – Powerful GUI for Windows Server R2 Server Core

A few days ago, Microsoft's Open Source tool Core Configurator 2.0 was released. It allows you to manage Server...
FREE: Device Remover – A powerful Device Manager alternative

Device Remover can do much more than its name indicates. It has all the features of the built-in Windows...
FREE: HWiNFO32 – Detailed hardware information and diagnostic

HWiNFO32 is a freeware hardware information and diagnostic tool. The information it provides goes far beyond the built-in Windows...
FREE: ManagePC – Inventory and manage PCs
Submitted by Joe I couldn't live without this marvelous little tool. Take any machine in any AD domain and...
Djoin.exe – Unattended offline domain join in Windows 7

In my last post, I explained how you can provision Active Directory to offline domain join a computer. Doing...
Djoin.exe – Offline domain join in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

One of the interesting features of the new Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 is the possibility of...
FREE: H2bench – Benchmark hard disks

Recently I wanted to check the performance of some of our servers. I was especially interested in the speed...
FREE: NetSpeedMonitor – Monitor network speed and data transfer

NetSpeedMonitor is a very simple freeware tool that allows you to monitor the network speed and the amount of...
DOSBox – Run DOS programs on 64-bit Windows

Who says that WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS doesn't run on Windows 7 x64? I was tempted to write this...
Interview with Rocky Heckman, Senior Security Architect at Microsoft Australia

At Tech.Ed Australia 2009 I caught up with Rocky Heckman, Senior Security Architect at Microsoft Australia with the ACE...
ServiWin is a freeware tool that allows you to manage Windows services and drivers. The utility has a few...
FREE: EC2Dream – GUI tool for Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus
Submitted by Neill Turner - Blog: EC2Dream EC2Dream is the first Open Source Graphical System Administration tool for Amazon...
Firefox gains market share – One more reason to FORget Firefox?

You've probably noticed the coverage of Internet Explorer's inexorable slide at several new sites. In Germany (the country that...
FREE: VHD Attach – Attach and detach VHDs in Windows Explorer

If you have to attach /mount VHDs (virtual hard disks) frequently and are looking for a tool to make...
Some Windows 7 migration pains

Well, as we move from theory to practise, our first batch of Windows 7 machines has been deployed and...