Filed under: Business, Security, Utilities, Features, Windows, Productivity, Freeware, Open Source
I’m always on the lookout for apps that can ease my workload or free up some room in my budget, and open source applications are an excellent way for me to accomplish both.
If you’re in the same boat as me, hopefully you’re already utilizing some open source options. If not, I’ve put together this list of two dozen great applications that I have the ability to depend on to keep things running smoothly on my office LAN and customer systems as well.
Some of these you’ll recognize, but I hope that there are some that are new to you as well.
- PING - I may be beating a dead horse here with my love of PING, but it’s just a great piece of open source. Drive imaging with network and spanning support, password blanking, it’s just an excellent app.
- NTRegEdit - The Windows Registry editor hasn’t seen many changes over the years. NTRegEdit offers some great additional features like recursive export, color coding, improved searching, and quick edit window below the values list.
- Safarp - A portable alternative to appwiz.cpl (add/remove programs), it provides a few extra useful features - like silent uninstalls and fixes of Windows Installer-based apps. It also opens in a flash, unlike the clunky appwiz.
- WPKG - Maintaining software installs on computers in a small business environment can be a tiny frustrating sometimes. WPKG gives you push/pull installs and it can run as a service, so silent installs run transparently with no user ineteraction.
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