Our Recommended Set of Tools to Make Your Life Easier

  • Visual Studio Code
    Free, Open Source code editor from Microsoft. This is starting to become my centralized code editor for non-Visual Studio Pro\Ent scenarios.
    https://code.visualstudio.com/
  • Notepad++
    Free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
  • PuTTY
    Free SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.
    http://www.putty.org
  • BeCyIconGrabber
    Free utility to view icons and cursors of any sizes that are contained in EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX, CPL, SRC, ICO and CUR files. The icons/cursors can be saved either individually as an icon, cursor, bitmap, png file or collectively within resource libraries. I will often pull out ICO files that I need to link to in products like Citrix XenApp, or when creating custom shortcuts, etc.
    http://www.becyhome.de/becyicongrabber/description_eng.htm
  • Helge Klein’s Delprof2 – User Profile Deletion Tool
    Delprof2 deletes inactive user profiles. If you want to reclaim disk space just run it without parameters and it will delete all profiles except your own and some special profiles needed by the operating system (like “Default”). Delprof2 has additional filtering options: you might want to delete locally cached copies of roaming profiles only or delete only those profiles that have not been used in a specified number of days. Delprof2 does it all, both on the local system and remotely.
    https://helgeklein.com/free-tools/delprof2-user-profile-deletion-tool/
  • Log Parser 2.2
    Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows® operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory®.
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24659