Guy recommends:
Free network monitor

Solarwinds' free monitor makes it easy to check the performance and health of a router or firewall.

Download your free Network Device Monitor

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Guy's Top 10 Free Tools

1) FreePing
2) Network Monitor
3) Xobni
4) PuTTY (UNIX)
5) WMI Monitor
6) BgInfo
7) Net-SNMP
8) Engineer's Toolset
9) DNS Stuff
10) WinDiff

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Vista jokes

Windows Vista - 10 New Executables and 20 Old Favorites

Windows Vista - 10 New Executables and 20 Old Favorites

10 New Executables in Vista

1. BcdEdit (Edit Boot.ini)

2. iCacls (Cacls i not L)

3. Powercfg  (Hibernate)

4. vssadmin (Shadow Copy)

5. Ctrl +Shift +Enter
   (Run as administrator)

6. DxConfig (Direct X)

7. MLink (Symbolic Link)

8. Net user administrator activate:yes

9. MSconfig (Changed rather than new)

10. Slmgr (Licence Manager)

Guy Recommends:  A Free Trial of the Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) v10

Solarwinds' Orion performance monitor will help you discover what's happening on your network.  Also this utility will guide you through troubleshooting; the dashboard will indicate whether the root cause is a broken link, faulty equipment or resource overload.  Because it produces network-centric views, the NPM is intuitive to navigate, and you can export the results to Microsoft Visio.

Perhaps Orion's best feature is the way it suggests solutions.  Moreover, if problems arise out of the blue, then you can configure Orion NPM v10 to notify members of your team what's changed and how to fix it.

If you are interested in troubleshooting, and creating network maps, then I recommend that you take advantage of Solarwinds' offer and download a free trial of Orion's Network Performance Monitor.

20 Old Favorites found in Vista, and also in XP

1. DiskPart

2. DriverQuery - Especially useful with Vista

3. FSUTIL

4. Ipconfig

5. Netsh - Zillions of sub commands

6. Nslookup

7. Openfiles

8. Ping

9. Path (Worth Checking)

10. Robocopy - Robust copy ex Reskit

11. SC (sc query netlogon)

12. SFC /scannow - Check for file corruption (also /verfiyonly) IE Cures

13. Shell:sendto - Control the shortcut menu

14. Shutdown (also /r restart)

15. Taskkill

16. Tasklist

17. Tracert

18. Tree

19. Ver - Build 6.0.6000

20. whoami - PsychoUser!

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Windows Vista Training

Train Signal have an excellent Windows Vista Training Course.  As an MCT trainer, I am a huge advocate of Train Signal’s products.  What impresses is me is that they demonstrate everything that they teach and they stay away from traditional 'lecture-style' training.  If you are looking for a complete DETAILED coverage of Windows Vista, then I highly recommend that you give this course a try.  I have reviewed their 18 hours of videos myself, and I guarantee that you will not be disappointed!

Watch a Vista Training Video Demo.

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