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I don’t know. Maybe it’s cool, maybe not.

Lansweeper is a powerful freeware solution without any embedded ads to make a complete software, hardware, asset inventory of your windows network.
No need to install a client on your workstations, all scanning is done through the use of WMI, fileshares and remote registry access.

You can use lansweeper with unlimited clients (no restrictions)
One lansweeper service can handle over 10.000 clients (depending on your server specifications)

Read more and download here
Check out live demo of the web interface here

Regshot is an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one – done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.

Read more and download here
Backup copy here (v 1.8.2 //090102)

In a recent project I needed to execute some stuff at logon with administrative privileges. Certainly there were quite a few commercial alternatives, but from my research they all used the CreateProcessAsUser API with various fancy user interfaces.

The tool I chose to use was the freeware CPAU.
Please note. Using a tool such as CPAU or the commercial alternatives produces a security risk as even though the password might be encrypted in whatever fashion it still passes the password in clear text to CreateProcessAsUser. That, however was a risk I was willing to take under the circumstances..

CPAU
Command line tool for starting process in alternate security context. Basically this is a runas replacement. Also allows you to create job files and encode the id, password, and command line in a file so it can be used by normal users.

Read more and download here

This utility works for all printer drivers, not just Kyocera

A utility for cleaning the registry after removing Kyocera printer drivers
Driver Deleter utility is used to remove old driver files and registry entries before installing new drivers. This 32 Bit version of Deleter supports Win9x, ME, NT4, W2k & XP. Important Note: After running this utility you must re-boot your PC for the effects to take place

Download here
Backup copy here (v. 2.9.1523 //090102)

SYDI is über cool!
All people out there having a hard time documenting servers might just wet their pants when seeing this…
At the most basic level SYDI consists of a collection of scripts which collects information from your servers and networks, then writes the data to a report.

Documenting a network can seem like a huge project, SYDI helps you get started. Instead of manually collecting information like ip addresses, os version, hardware configuration the scripts collects this automatically it can write directly to Word (or XML).

Read more and download here
Backup copy (version 2.2) here

This is not news, I’ve posted about this before… but I figured I might need this sometime and the binaries are always good to have…

InstallTailor lets you customize Windows Installer installations by simulating running the package as you make the desired changes. Your changes to the package are recorded and the .MST file is created. The .MST file is then applied to the base .MSI file at runtime to execute your customizations. With InstallTailor, you can easily use the preferred method of Windows Installer customization, .MST files, to establish uniform installation settings across your enterprise.

Read more here
(Edit: Apparently not free anymore since the Symantec takeover way back…/090102)

Backup here