Author Archives: kartook

fs guard’s main advantage is that it’s very easy to set up. If you have unstable service that you want to monitor and there is no other monitoring solution at hand, then you can install and configure fs guard in less than a minute, even if you are using it for the first time. fs […]

eToolz is a nifty GUI tool that allows you to perform a number of network queries: DNS, ping, traceroute, WHOIS, mail-check, HTTP-header, time (NTP), Google pagerank, top level domains and port numbers. For some of these queries, you would usually go to the command prompt in Windows; for example, the DNS query would be just […]

From the publisher’s website: JDiskReport provides different perspectives about your disk drives: absolute and relative sizes, size distribution, distribution of modification dates, and distribution of types. Each perspective includes a pie chart, a bar chart, and a details table. You can choose to either show the file size or the number of files. Also, JDiskReport […]

TweakUAC, a   free tool that allows you to turn off UAC faster than with Vista’s onboard method. What is so useful about this utility is that you can also disable and enable UAC Prompts with it. Turning off Vista UAC via the Control Panel is a bit long. With TweakUAC, you can do this […]

A great tool to replace mstsc. It allows me to have several servers up and accessable at noe time and easily move btw them. Publisher’s description: Terminals is a multi tab terminal services/remote desktop client. It uses Terminal Services ActiveX Client (mstscax.dll). The project started from the need of controlling multiple connection simultaneously. General Networking […]

Every hard disk is too small if you just wait long enough. TreeSize Free tells you where precious space has gone to. TreeSize Free can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style […]

WuInstall is a command line tool for Windows, which enables you to install Windows-updates for a certain workstation in a controlled way by using a command line script instead of the standard Windows update functionality. It can be used by administrators for updates on many workstations using scripts or for users who do not want […]

Overview ALTools.exe contains tools that assist you in managing accounts and in troubleshooting account lockouts. * AcctInfo.dll. Helps isolate and troubleshoot account lockouts and to change a user’s password on a domain controller in that user’s site.It works by adding new property pages to user objects in the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management […]