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August 27, 2008  6:12 PM

Essential Tools: A free undelete utility that actually recovers files effectively



Posted by: Jerry Lees
disk utilities, drive utilities, essential tools, free software, free tools, Recovery Tools, software resources, Systems administrator tools, undelete, undelete files, windows tools

Please note: This is a re-posting of a previously deleted post, details to come. 

The next tool I'd like to share with you in my Essential Tools series is another useful...

August 22, 2008  2:23 PM

Essential Tools: A FREE File Level Drive Defragmenter



Posted by: Jerry Lees
deframent, disk utilities, drive utilities, essential tools, free software, free tools, software resources, Systems administrator tools, windows tools

Please note: This is a re-posting of a previous post that was deleted, further details to come.  The first tool I want to call out in my Essential Tools series, and the...


August 21, 2008  2:25 PM

Essential Tools: A free tool to mount an ISO cdrom or DVD image as a Virtual CDROM drive



Posted by: Jerry Lees
CDROM Tools, disk utilities, drive utilities, DVD Tools, essential tools, free software, free tools, ISO, ISO Tools, software resources, Systems administrator tools, windows tools

We've all had times when we needed a file from an installation CD or DVD, but only had an ISO image available on the network. So, we have to copy the image to our machine then burn the image to media-- just to get the file. There are utilities out there that do this, like


August 18, 2008  5:48 PM

Essential Tools: Determining disk usage graphically with free tools



Posted by: Jerry Lees
Disk space, diskspace, drive space, drivespace, essential tools, free software, spacemonger, Systems administrator tools, windows tools

The next essential tool is one that I have used for quite some time now, and one I searched to find for some time. As a systems administrator, its an ever ending battle for you to keep space...


August 13, 2008  2:29 PM

Essential tools: Wget, a command line tool to retrieve web pages



Posted by: Jerry Lees
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There is nothing more annoying than having a web server or site down and IE (or FireFox, for that matter) become dog slow or simply getting in the way of trouble shooting the page. Additionally, sometimes these browsers actually get in the way of troubleshooting the problem by masking the error...


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