ManageEngine's Free Windows Administrator Tools

ManageEngine offers a suite of free Windows' tools at manageengine.adventnet.com/products/free-windows-tools/free-windows-tools.html. The suite is named Free Windows Tools 1.3 and the download is approximately 2.48MB. Interestingly, free email technical support and online documentation is offered for free if you register before downloading the file. The only required registration information is your email address.

The suite includes the following free products:

• Wake on LAN Tool—lets you boot remote computers
• GPO Update Tool—lets you perform Group Policy Object (GPO) updates
• Shutdown/Restart Tool—lets you shutdown or restart remote computers
• Software Inventory Tool—lets you retrieve a computer applications' software name, version, and manufacturer, and usage statistics of programs
• Join/Unjoin Computer Tool—lets you move a computer from a domain to another, from a domain to a workgroup, or from a workgroup to a domain
• Remote task Manager Tool—lets you view the processes running on a remote computer

The following programs are some of the free versions of commercial products ManageEngine offers:

• EventLog Analyzer
• PassWordManager Pro
• Security Manager Plus
• WiFi Manager

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