Microsoft offers great tools for enhancing your server-side experience, but open source has impressive options as well

If you are a Unix admin and also have to maintain Windows servers, you will find winexe a must command line utility to have in your arsenal.

Being device independent means being able to code in any device or platform. One of the things you might want across devices is access to your code libraries. One way to do it is using a couple of macro tools combined with Dropbox.

Microsoft Mathematics provides a graphing calculator that plots in 2D and 3D, step-by-step equation solving, and useful tools to help students with math and science studies.

PuTTY is tops on the short list of applications I install first on any Windows machine. Over the years I've used PuTTY, I've installed it on a huge number of computers but I've always had one complaint; There isn't a configuration file I can backup or move to a new machine.

Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files, and scan performance optimizations.

The AVG Rescue CD is a powerful must-have toolkit for the rescue and repair of infected machines. It provides essential utilities for system administrators and other IT professionals and includes the following features:

Comprehensive administration toolkit
System recovery from virus and spyware infections
Suitable for recovering MS Windows and Linux operating systems (FAT32 and NTFS file systems)
Ability to perform a clean boot from CD or USB stick
Free support and service for paid license holders of any AVG product
FAQ and Free Forum self-help support for AVG Free users

This page contains the rest of the tools. They don't fit on any specific category.

These little open source tools were coded when I needed a specific solution for a specific task so they are very minimal and focused on only one thing. They are mostly quick hacks that I put together fast, so the code is not very beautiful or optimized.

They are all released with the full source, under the GPL. If you make changes or enhace the tools I'd love to have a copy.

On personal computers running the Microsoft Windows or DOS operating systems, additional characters to those available in the current keyboard layout can be typed using the Alt key in conjunction with the keyboard's numeric keypad. This technique is generally called a character code.

Run Windows Applications on your Mac -- Without Windows