Windows Management Tools


This appendix lists sets of Windows management, maintenance, configuration, and monitoring tools that you may not be familiar with. Most of them are not installed by Windows Setup but instead are hidden away in obscure folders on your Windows Setup CD-ROM. Others must be downloaded or purchased from Microsoft. They can be a great help in using, updating, and managing Windows.

We'll discuss the following tool kits:

  • Standard Tools Our pick of handy programs installed by Windows Setup that we think are unappreciated and not well-enough known.

  • Support Tools A set of useful command-line and GUI programs that can be installed from your Windows Setup CD-ROM.

  • Value-Added Tools Several more sets of utilities hidden away on the Windows Setup CD-ROM.

  • PowerToys A set of accessories that can be downloaded for free from microsoft.com. The PowerToys include TweakUI, a program that lets you make adjustments to more Windows settings than you knew existed.

  • Resource Kits A set of books published by Microsoft for each version of Windows that includes a CD-ROM containing hundreds of utility programs. What you may not have known is that in some cases you can get the Resource Kit program toolkits without purchasing the books.

  • Services For UNIX (SFU) A package of network services and command-line tools that provide a nearly complete UNIX environment on Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, or Windows Server. SFU can be downloaded for free from microsoft.com.

We'll go over each of these toolkits in order in the following sections. Although we don't have room to cover all of the tools in detail, we'll give you listings of the available tools.




Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows
Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0789736950
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 128

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