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What is in your toolbox?

Hello All,

I have been collecting tools over the years and I am curious on what tools you recommend that are in your IT "toolbox". I am not talking about Bootable Diagnostic discs, rather installable windows applications that help you diagnose problem, fix common issues, hacks, and ect.

Example: CCleaner, Autoruns, and ect.

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Glenn Abelson

I try to keep my toolbox to a minimum as I have found many hiccups get fixed with a cold reboot.
However...anti virus, anti spam (I like SpyBot from www.safer-networking.org/ ) and Glary Utilities which has a whole bunch of tools.

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JamesBarnett

Well I'm going to cheat a little and tell you about 2 favorite collections of tools.
nirsoft & sysinternals are both are heavy duty mucking around in the OS.

Nirsoft has some good utilities to find/track registry keys.

Sysinternals has many good programs including process explorer to help you track down info on "interesting processes".

There is of course:

hijackthis
AVG
ad-aware
a-squared free
magical jelly bean key finder
SIW
Wireless Key View
Unknown Device Idenitifier
Restoration
Brute Benchmark
Angry IP Scanner
Driver Collector
AutoPatcher
JKdefrag
Net Stumbler

You can also download a nice collection of utilies including many of the above;
http://www.technibble.com/computer-repair-utility-kit-v1/

With that list of programs you can use one the various programs that will install all of your favorite programs like install pad.