Freeware/NoNag Toolz for NT Admins
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New Additons 08/March/99:  Rhino9 Section, Chronicle, Pinger, Legion
New Additons 15/Oct/98: rping, Loge, Networld Scanner, SIT, IP Subnet Calculator
New Additions 17/Oct/1998: IPUltrascan, InternetView, Hoppa PortScanner, Share Notifier, LMHOSTS, FileDate, Diskeeper Lite, WinVNC, SpaceTracker, Registry Extensions, DLL Informant
 
Invoker  Invoker is a free administrative and development utility for Microsoft® Windows NT® 3.51/4.0 (Intel®) that  creates a registered service out of (most) applications that can be launched by the command line. Idetix had a need  for this general purpose tool, and decided to make it freely available (following the terms of the license) as well as royalty free (similar tools are not free).
NTHandleEx  NTHandleEx is a GUI/device driver combination that together show you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
NTLAST NTLast is a freeware port of the Unix util, last. It's a command line util with several switches for searching the event log. It can distinguish remote/interactive logons and it matches logon times with logoff times.
  
Remote Shutdown by Jumping Armadillo
RemoteShutdown  is a WindowsNT Administrator's utility that allows you to shutdown remote workstations (if you have sufficient privileges).You can specify whether the user is notified with an optional message and delay, or shutdown without warning. You can also specify an unconditional forced shutdown. Options can be set via both a GUI and a command-line interface.
SmartSchedule  Free 
The smart way to schedule tasks. GUI replacement for the AT command.
Klever Co 
Big Brother 
 
Free 
Big Brother is a program designed to monitor your IP-network activities. it gives you a comprehensive picture of what happened to any point on the Net that you put in. 
WINDOWS NT ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLSET
aka AINTX
Motivation As any administrator knows, the native NT toolset is nothing short of abysmal.  The Resource Kit is a slight improvement.  What few tools exist are slow and awkward.  Anyone who comes from a UNIX environment will be shocked at the totally dysfunctional state of affairs.  The AINTX toolset aims to remedy some of these shortcomings.  Yeah, there already exists a number of 3rd party administrative tools, but they tend to be expensive and adhere to Microsoft's notions of what is useful.  This toolset has two advantages--it's damn cheap and, at least I find, the tools are quite useful in day-to-day management. Tool type The application names and switches are loosely based on AIX (hence AINTX).  All included tools are console applications.  This means they can be immediately accessed from a console session, as opposed to spending 2 minutes navigating through menus to launch and then wait for a GUI app to initialize.  It also means the tools may be arbitrarily combined to extract quite specific bits of system information.  In addition, the tools may used in batch/shell scripts and contribute the automation of administrative tasks. 
The Offline Utility to Change NT Passwords This is a small utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system, by modifying  the crypted password in the registrys SAM file. You do not need to know the old password to set a new one. It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk. The bootdisk includes stuff to access NTFS partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together.  
Note: It will not work on systems encrypted with SP3's syskey.  
It's VERY ALPHA yet, and relies heavily on undocumented structures and methods. You have been warned! 

rping 
Homepage  download
 
rPing is a Freeware Ping, Lookup and Traceroute utility for Win95, Win98 & NT. It is multithreaded, easy-to-use user interface and fully configurable by letting the user to customize settings such as packet size, number of packet sent, packet content, interval time, data fragment, result logging, displays all IP addresses and aliases on Lookup and etc.

Loge 
Homepage download
 
Freeware 
Are you tired of cutting and pasting your users loginscripts? Well,  here´s a little goodie for you! LOGE is a NT loginscript-generator. Easy to use interface and full control on how the scripts appear on your users screen. Check it out..

NetWorld Scanner  
Homepage download
 
Freeware 
A stand alone application similar in form to Microsoft's Network Neighborhood. NetWorld allows you to access Windowsmachines anywhere in the world, just as if they were connected to your local area network (LAN). While, Network Neighborhood uses a passive listening approach which can only retrieve the names and workgroups of machines on your subnet. NetWorld uses an active pinging approach to retrieve the names and workgroups of machines on any subnet. As an 
added bonus, in many cases NetWorld also offers faster operation than Network Neighborhood, and a more accurate listing of machines.
SIT by 
Defective  Software Distribution 
 
Homepage download
 
 
Sit gives you an easy way of starting/stopping/pausing/continuing groups of services, something which is tearsome with the normal Windows NT services control program. You can group services from your local computer, or from computers on your network - and all they can be accessed with a mouse-click - from the system tray...  
 
IP Subnet Calculator by 
Net 3 Group 
 
Homepage download
 
Need to calculate subnets? This one is pretty good and Freeware.
 
IP UltraScan 
 
Freeware 
A program to perform a ping on an entire class C IP Address range, or any portion of it, to indicate the IP addresses in use. In addition, it can query for standards services (HTTP, FTP, POP3, NNTP etc.) on any IP address in the scan range.
 
InterNetView
Freeware 
Network scanner. A program to view network configuration and information. All basic  
functions of the network map are supported. Real-time update of the network information, SNMP support, NetBIOS information lookup, Port Scanning. 
 
Hoppa Port Scanner
Freeware 
A multithreaded tcp portscanner written for windowsNT. It can scan portranges, hostranges and ip ranges. Number of threads can be changed. Source are also available from the homepage (CBuilder). 
Share Notifier
Freeware 
This program enables you to be notified of the use of a shared directory on your machine. After the use of the share directory an icon will be animated in you windows taskbar. The configuration screen allows you to select an option that will pop a window up in the foreground when a new share is in use. 
NT Admin Tools.com 

LMHOSTS

"In the Tricks of the Trade section, we wrote about a technique for forcing the NBT cache to contain entries for critical servers on a network. Even if the WINS server is down or the entries are corrupt, the cached entries will allow name resolution. An LMHOSTS file is needed that contains all of the server names, IP addresses and domain information, formatted in a particular way. We have created a program that generates the LMHOSTS file automatically and includes the #pre switch to load the entries into cache and 0x1b entries for browsing. This program also generates batch files that use "net view", "ping", "nslookup", and use nltest from the NT Resource kit to test your network setup. Additionally, this program will generate a batch  file used to distribute the LMHOSTS file. This is the fourth release (version 1.3). This software is freeware, spread it around as you wish."
 
NT Admin Tools.com 

Filedate

This new free software audits dates of specific files on our servers. It is very useful for tracking application and OS versions. 
This program is freeware, spread it around as you wish.
 
Excecutive Software International 

Diskeeper Lite

This high speed, manual defragmenter is the first and only one of its kind, designed exclusively for Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381 or higher). Now you can discover how easy it is to restore and maintain Windows NT system performance with Diskeeper Lite. Also includes Fragmentation Analysis Utility. Works on NTFS and FAT partitions. 
 
The Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab 

WinVNC 
download...

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. For example, use a VNC viewer running on a PC display your Unix environments which are running on the server, or use it to run a mac or another pc or linux, also has java pluggins that you can use to run the desktops from your browser, now R16 can run as a service under both 95 and NT. 
 
SpaceTracker
A Windows 95/98/NT 4.x/5.0 utility that monitors all thehard drives available to your computer, including network drives, and lets you know when they drop below auser-defined limit. It monitors both local and networkdrives. Located in the system tray out of the way until youneed it. Notifies you of limits reached without interruptingyour work. Quick access to monitored drives. (Only adouble-click away!) Simple configuration. Drive logging of program events. 
 
DC Software Design, Inc 

Registry Editor Extensions

The Registry Editor Extensions (RegEditX) is freeware app that enhances the Registry Editor. If you edit the same keys repeatedly, this is for you! A new combo box maintains the history of visited keys and allows quick navigation back to them. The keys are saved across sessions and available the next time you use the Registry Editor.
DLL Informant
DLL Informant shows you information about all DLLs on your system. As well as all Application ( and other modules)that are using each module. registered OLE 
Servers are listed aswell. This makes it easy to find out which DLLs are not used anymore, and are just wasting space. 
 


Somarsoft
 
Somarsoft DumpAcl-NT NoNag Shareware  
Somarsoft DumpAcl-NT security auditing Windows NT program to dump file system and other types of permissions, audit settings, user/group info, etc. in a concise, readable  listbox format, so that "holes" in system security are readily apparent. Shareware is fully functional, except printing.
Somarsoft DumpEvt Freeware 
Windows NT program to dump the event log, in a format suitable for importing into a database. Used as basis for eventlog managment system, for long-term tracking of security violations, etc. Similar to DUMPEL utility in NT resource kit, but fixes various defects of that utility that make the output unsuitable for importing into databases. Fully functional  and free of charge.
Somarsoft DumpReg Freeware 
Windows NT and Windows 95 program to dump the registry, making it easy to find keys and values matching a string. For Windows NT, dumped entries can be sorted by reverse order of last modified time, making it easy to see changes made by recently installed software. Must-have product for Windows NT systems administrators. Fully functional and free of charge.
 



Frank Heyne Software
 
ELWIZ - Eventlog Wizard  Freeware Evaluation Version  
Eventviewer Replacement
EventSave Freeware  
Utility schedule an automatic aving and deleting of the event log. 
LADS Freeware  
This command line tool lists files with alternate data streams (ADS)
 



NT Tools  Falk Schmal and Torsten Sprejz
 
Visual Netinfo Preview Visual NetInfo is a NT network diagnostic tool. Several Information about all computers across the domain can be obtained. Visual NetInfo is a very useful utility for NetworkManager, Advanced Users and Software Developers.
Service Manager Service Manager NT is a Windows NT Services Administration Utility. It's purpose to administer service thru the whole domain if you have the rights! Service Manager NT is a very useful utility for Network Manager,  Advanced Users and Software Developers.
Security Config Wizard NT Security Config Wizard NT is a Remote Security Administration Utility. Its purpose to set a lot of security related (mostly) hidden options from Windows NT from computers across all obtainable domains if you have the rights! Configuration Wizard NT is a very useful utility for Network Manager, Advanced Users and Software Developers. 
Security Config Wizard NT is released as freeware for non-commercial use.
Lookup Error Messages Freeware  
Find out what the cryptic system errors mean
 



Adkins Resource - Free Dowloads
 
Exporter... exporter.zip
 
FREE - Standalone command-line utility for exporting users, groups, group members, services, computers, and printers (in any combination) from any or all computers on any NT domain.   Includes online .HLP documentation file.
ShrSec... shrsec.zip
 
FREE - Allows setting and viewing share permissions from the command line. Future versions will support full share listings for single or multiple computers, as well as batch exporting and importing of share properties and permissions. NOTE: This utility requires NT 4.0 or later.
NTconnect... connect.zip
 
FREE - Utility for creating a Netware ® - like login script, allowing commands for connecting drives and printers to be executed conditionally based on user and/or group membership. Also supports program execution and registry modification. Includes Help file and examples.
Logoff ... logoff.zip
 
FREE - This utility (15kb) logs off the current session. Includes source code and comments.
 
 


mersoft free-downloads
 
Info... Auditrecover.Zip  Audit Crash Recovery Utility 
Auditrecover attempts to automatically recover from an audit failure system stop, (STATUS_AUDIT_FAILED: 0xC0000244), by performing the following functions: 
1. Backup and clear and all events from the Security log. 
2. Restore the "CrashOnAuditFail" value in the Registry. 
3. Restart the system.
Info... Autologon.Zip  Automatic Logon Utility 
This utility manipulates the "Automatic Logon" Registry settings.
Info... Cpu.Zip  Processor Information Utility 
The cpu utility reports Intel processor information.
Info... DbgMsg.Zip  Debug Message Viewer Utility 
This utility displays debug messages emitted by running programs.
Info... Drv.Zip Driver Control Utility 
This utility starts, stops, pauses, continues or lists information about drivers on the specified system. drv has been tested on Windows NT Version 4.0, with Service Pack 3 installed and no Hot Fixes.
Info... Dumpfs.Zip Filesystem Information Utility 
dumpfs displays information about the specified volume. This version adds options to display volume and filesystem statistics as well as an option to scan Ntfs volumes for Multiple Data Streams. 
Info... Err.Zip  Error Code Utility 
This utility displays the text message associated with the specifiederror code. It can be run either in batch or in interactive mode.
Info... Grp.Zip Group List Utility 
This utility lists Local and/or Global groups, and optionally the users within those groups.
Info... Kill.Zip Process Termination Utility 
This utility unconditionally terminates the specified process(es).
Info... Libdump.Zip Hexadecimal Dump Functions 
The libdump library offers a hexadecimal dump function to programs running under Windows NT. Dump output can be directed either to the console, to a log file, or to both.
Info... Lock.Zip Desktop Lock Utility 
This utility locks the Desktop by enabling Screen Saver secure mode, if necessary, and then launching the Screen Saver. The Screen Saver secure mode is NOT reset to its original value after the Screen Saver is launched for security reasons. To reset the value, run the includedunlock utility. 
Also included is a "blank" screen saver. If no screen saver has been configured, lock will set up the included, blank, screen saver. After the screen saver is launched, it is removed from the Registry.
Info... Num.Zip Numerology Calculator (Source included) 
This set of programs was written to illustrate generic ANSI C programming, as well as providing a comparison of implementation between C and Java.
Info... Ofl.Zip Open File List Utility 
This utility lists files on the specified Server which have been opened via a network connection. The user running this utility must be either an Operator or an Administrator.
Info... Passwd.Zip Password Change Utility 
The passwd utility allows the user to change his/her password on either the local system, or the Domain Controller. Administrators may change anyone's password.
Info... Pwgen.Zip Password Generation Utility (Source included) 
Generate (hopefully) pronounceable random passwords. These can often be remembered more easily than completely random passwords, and are immune to dictionary searches, etc.
Info... Ps.Zip Process List Utility 
ps is a Process List utility, somewhat like the Unix ps utility, which displays active processes on the system.
Info... Rlist.Zip Resource List Utility 
rlist is a utility which reads the HARDWARE section of the Registry and reports various hardware details maintained by the Windows NT Configuration Manager. This information includes driver and device 
information from the RESOURCEMAP area of the Registry. The information is derived from the RAW device's RESOURCE_LIST entry.
Info... Script.Zip Script Utility 
Script records everything printed on the console. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an interactive session as proof of an assignment.
Info... Shutdown.Zip System Shutdown Utility 
This is a system shutdown utility somewhat like the Unix utility of the same name.
Info... Sid.Zip Security Identifier Utility 
This utility displays the Sid for the specified user or group. A text Sid may also be supplied as an argument, in which case, the user name associated with that Sid will be displayed.
Info... Slist.Zip Network Session List Utility 
slist lists and optionally deletes sessions on the specified Server.
Info... Svc.Zip Service Control Utility 
This utility starts, stops, pauses, continues or lists information about services on the specified system.
Info... Systime.Zip System Time Utility 
This utility displays the current time, the elapsed time and the system start time for the local system.
Info... Tsysvc.Zip Time Synchronization Service 
Tsysvc is a time synchronization service for Windows NT networks. The service queries the time of day from a configured "master" Windows NT machine on the network and adjusts the local time accordingly. This service is not designed to configure the "correct" time; rather it is designed to ensure that the time on the local machine is the same as the time on some defined "master" machine. The service is installed as an Autostart service.
Info... Upriv.Zip User Privilege Utility 
The upriv utility allows the addition or removal of privileges from user accounts.
Info... Which.Zip Which Utility 
which takes a list of command names and searches for each executable file that would be run had these commands actually been invoked.
Info... Whois.Zip Whois Utility 
This is a basic whois utility, used to retrieve information about Internet domains.
Info... Xdc.Zip Number Conversion Utility 
xdc is a number conversion utility which operates in either batch or interactive mode.
 
Systems Internals
 
Systems Internals Utilities Lots of goodies. Some are free many are not.
 
rhino9
 
Chronicle Chronicle Remote Registry Query Tool

This utility will determine the current service pack/hotfix level of all Windows NT machines on in your NT domain. Chronicle's filtering feature allows you to check for the existence of hotfixes that only relate to your current configuration.

Pinger Pinger is a simple program for locating active hosts over a range of IP addresses. It is written in VC++ and full source is provided. Pinger works by using the raw socket functionality provided by winsock 2. Pinger has only been tested on Windows NT 4 to date, so any feedback on Windows 95/98 performance will be appreciated. Pinger is capable of scanning a class C subnet for active hosts, and resolving all of the host names in under 15 seconds on a 28.8 connection.
Legion Win32 file share scanner just 
Some of the features include:
A "user friendly" interface, Multiple scan configurations,Treeview of remote hosts, Text reporting, Mounting drives with one click. Registered Ver. also has  Share level brute force plug-in 
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