Winpooch

"Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your computer against virus."

The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP)

Media playback on Windows (and other) PDAs - works with Shift voice mail WAV files.

The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) is a software media player. Supported operating systems include Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Smartphone, Palm OS and Symbian OS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core_Pocket_Media_Player

http://tcpmp.en.softonic.com/pocket

http://www.hpcfactor.com/downloads/tcpmp/

Tools for quick recovery of deleted Active Directory objects

I had a bizarre incident today where one of my member servers (a terminal server) suddenly stopped allowing people to log on - giving a message indicating that the domain controller could not be contacted or there was a problem with the computer account. Turns out that the computer account for the server was no longer present in Active Directory Users and Computers.

Dennis found an article explaining the use of a tool called LDP.exe.

An excerpt from the article:

When an object is deleted in Active Directory, it is really just "tombstoned." That is, the object and its mandatory attributes are moved to the Deleted Objects folder -- a sort of death row for objects. Every 15 minutes, the Garbage Collector (or Executioner) comes along and checks to see if the object's Tombstone Lifetime has expired. The Tombstone Lifetime is the period of time the object can remain in the Deleted Objects folder before it is purged from the database. This is 60 days by default, although Microsoft now recommends 120 days. If the Tombstone Lifetime has expired, it purges the object from AD.

Worked like a charm to re-activate the tombstoned entry. Unfortunately, it was for the account I created after the problem was discovered in an attempt to get things going again. I suspect I overwrote the original AD object in the deleted objects folder! :(

So, I had all the users log out, moved the server into a workgroup and then re-joined the domain. The existing profiles survived this process as well.

GuerrillaMail

Use the GuerrillaMail site to create and use a disposable temporary e-mail address. Addresses are valid in increments of 15 minutes and are accessible via the web site. Handy.

Top 100 Network Security Tools

http://sectools.org/

Open Source Windows

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best Windows software that we know of. No adware, no spyware, just good software.

A great list of great software.

Bulk Rename Utility

"Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders....plus loads more!"

Works great and doesn't even need to be installed.