IT Tools

**Partyball** · 10-31-11, 03:46 PM

What are some of the Tools or Programs the IT professionals find useful here? I am pretty much a Jack-of-all Trades IT person. All areas I am in. We typically use Spiceworks for an overview and general support tickets. What are some other tools you find useful or handy to do you jobs?

**Phyrelight** · 10-31-11, 04:07 PM

*****, win pe bootable environment in general, a decent size thumb drive to carry all my software. If that fails, a ball peen hammer.

***self edited :P

**WileECyte** · 10-31-11, 04:09 PM

*cough* Hirens is illegal/greyware.

**Partyball** · 10-31-11, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by Phyrelight

hirens, win pe bootable environment in general, a decent size thumb drive to carry all my software. If that fails, a ball peen hammer.

We use the PD's firing range if something fails. The hammer is fun too though. Our "data eraser" in this years budget is an AR-15.

**DancingCorpse** · 10-31-11, 04:24 PM

I have been helping the land lord where I live with a lot of computer stuff, and when we are done with his old computer, he seriously wants to go out into the field on the land and rig his Propane tank (he sell propane) into a flame thrower, burn them to a crisp, then attach the drill attachment to his back-end loader, drill the largest holes he can in hard drives, and then bury them with the back-end loader.

And sadly, I can't tell if he is serious or not.

**Gumby** · 11-01-11, 12:51 AM

"IT tools" is rather broad. I work in a very large IT department and we have several very specialized teams with their own set of tools for each function. The tools the security guys use are nothing like the ones the congfig management guys use for example. What sort of tools are you intersted in? We have a lot because our management has never seen a tool they didn't buy

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**SapiensErus** · 11-01-11, 03:49 PM

Daemon tools, undelete, win PE and some standard portable apps on a thumbdrive. Outside of that they become very task specific...

For webdev stuff I have a host of crap from WinSCP to photoshop and all things in between. If I am troubleshooting a friends computer memtest86, ProcExp, and some native windows tools are usually good enough.

Most times, the tools I need are already in the OS. But I am not a professional, I do odd jobs and have only actually been employed in IT twice.

**kibner** · 11-01-11, 05:14 PM

Notepad++ is an awesome free text-editor. Winmerge is a good diff tool. Microsoft Onenote is very useful for keeping notes (useful in a high call volume environment). Use Zenburn color theme on every editor you can to save eye strain. LaTeX is a great markup-type language to learn when creating professional documentation or papers. I really like OCCT as a cpu/gpu/ram stress testing program. Keyboard shortcuts can help you get around systems and programs much quicker. Invest in a quality keyboard (I prefer the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2).

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