![]() SpaceSniffer – Less colorful breakdown showing you what is taking up space.As of May 2013, the last update was November 2011. WinDirStat – colorful breakdown showing you what is taking up space.Resource Monitor (resmon) – More robust than task manager, not quite as daunting as Process Explorer.Even if you implement Operations Manager or another monitoring system that watches performance counters, you will likely need to dive into counters not covered by those systems. Performance Monitor (perfmon) – Sooner or later you will need to use it.There are other options, none have persuaded me to leave Terminals. Terminals – A great open source RDP (and other) manager.WMI Explorer – Simplified discovery and exploration of WMI.Process Monitor (procmon) and Process Explorer (procexp) get the most use, followed by PsExec and AutoRuns. SysInternals – Be sure to check out the entire SysInternals suite, and consider keeping it up to date with a quick script pulling from here.From my perspective, anyone working in IT supporting a Windows environment should already know or start learning PowerShell for their own and their employer’s benefit. PowerShell – Version 3.0 or later, using the ISE. ![]() This is a list of tools I regularly use and find invaluable. His list is a bit more comprehensive and the comments include other suggestions take a look! This page was inspired by Scott Hanselman’s list of tools, and will include a good deal of overlap.I’m a ‘Systems Engineer’ in a Microsoft and VMware environment – this list will focus mostly on tools found in these environments. ![]() Rather than replying with a new or modified list each time, I’m keeping an updated list here. In many IT focused community websites, the topic of tools comes up quite often. March 2015 EDIT: This list is now static. ![]()
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