I encounter only a handful of software problems per year that I can't solve with only my Hirens disk, Ninite and my Dropbox toolchest.Patch My PC Home Updater supports installing and updating ~250 applications! The list below will show every application that we support installing, detecting, and auto-updating. Hirens offers virtually every diagnostic tool a Windows administrator could possible want from a single Windows PE live CD. For enterprise deployments, I replace Dropbox with TeamDrive.Ī special mention should be given to one of the few bootable DVDs I still carry around with me: Hirens. If I discover a new tool, I add it to my chest, and it is immediately synchronised across all of the other systems. If I add a bookmark, it is synchronised to all of the other computers. A quick single installer from Ninite, log into Dropbox – and my entire toolchest downloads itself. There is a specific reason for choosing Dropbox here: it is supported by Ninite.
(XYPlorer is payware, but has proven to be entirely worth it.) I round it out with Teamviewer as my choice of remote support tool and XYPlorer as my file manager. Don't forget to add the entire Sysinternals Suite, a VNC viewer and Filezilla. 7Zip handles compression while Windirstat displays folder and file usage graphically.ĬomboFix and ClamWin are good front-line antivirals, while Bleachbit is good for cleaning out the unmentionables. CDBurnerXP does what it says on the tin while KeePass is a great portable keyring. Getting into the more traditional sysadmin tools there are WinSCP, Putty, Cygwin and Xming for speaking to Linux. Libreoffice for obvious reasons, and Notepad++ (now with Spell Check!) because I simply can't live without it. Skype because everyone seems to use it for conferences and interviews, and VLC because I randomly given training videos in bizarre video formats.
Firefox + Addons come in portable flavour, and uTorrent helps you download those pesky Linux ISOs. DIA is great for quick-and-dirty diagramming and we all know about GIMP for minor image work. Under "productivity", there is NSIS for building Windows installers.
In my time as a sysadmin, I have accumulated a collection of favourite utilities. Those with an interest in building their own set should check out Portable Apps. Taking your toolkit with you, including all of its configurations, is the niche filled by portable applications. Do you really want to download the same set of plug-ins for every browser, on every computer you touch? Do you really want to drag along your custom dictionaries from system to system, or migrate your saved Putty favourites?
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