What software/tools should every sysadmin have on their desktop?

OS & Utilities Screenshots Monitoring Tools

Greenshot Landing Page
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Greenshot

Greenshot is a free and open source screenshot tool that allows annotation and highlighting using the built-in image editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
This is pretty handy if your working on live log files: https://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/ Greenshot for documentation (a lot better than snippet tool): https://getgreenshot.org/.

#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 117 social mentions
Batchpatch Landing Page

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Batchpatch

Stop dreading Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday every month and finally take control of your patching...

Batchpatch (https://batchpatch.com/ Does patching but also bulk execute scripts on multple computers in the Windows enviroment).

#Patch Management #Monitoring Tools #IT Asset Management 12 social mentions
OBS Studio 1 Landing Page

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OBS Studio 1

OBS Studio 64bit is a free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux. Control your...

#Screen Recording #Screenshots #Screenshot Annotation
Server Fault Landing Page

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Server Fault

Server Fault is a Q&A site for system administrators and IT professionals that's free.

#Social Networks #Social Network #Web App 20 social mentions
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Landing Page

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager

Remote Desktop Connection Manager is a portable application that allows you to manage multiple desktop connections of the Remote Desktop Protocol.

#OS & Utilities #Remote Desktop #Remote PC Access 8 social mentions
WinSCP Landing Page

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WinSCP

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows.

#FTP Client #File Transfer #SSH 63 social mentions
VS Code Landing Page
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VS Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1144 social mentions
ShareX Landing Page
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ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen...
Pricing:
- Open Source
Lots of good stuff on the list already, but I really like ShareX. It's a screenshot/screenshot automation tool.

#Screenshots #Screenshot Annotation #Image Annotation 273 social mentions
Tera Term Landing Page

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Tera Term

Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows.

#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools
Meld Landing Page
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Meld

What is Meld? Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Management #Diff And Merge Tools #Merge Tools 44 social mentions
PortableApps.com Landing Page
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PortableApps.com

PortableApps.com is a website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #LMS #Bookmarks 150 social mentions
tabby.sh
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Tabby.sh

Tabby is a free and open source SSH, local and Telnet terminal with everything you'll ever need.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I use tabby terminal ( https://tabby.sh/ ) as an alternative terminal on Windows. It support tabs, power shell, wsl shell, ssh connection, use windows creds manager for storing password etc... Definitively one of the best terminal app.

#Terminal Tools #Command Line Tools #DevOps Tools 18 social mentions
Obsidian.md Landing Page

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Obsidian.md

A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

Sorry I'll probably sound ignorant right now, but I've never heard of Obsidian. Do you mean this application? It seems to be a note taking app, how can you utilize this for writing shell commands?

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1492 social mentions
Process Monitor Landing Page

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Process Monitor

Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.

Process monitor Https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon.

#Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools #Performance Monitoring 184 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
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Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Not in use everywhere but I find this package manager a great way to setup a box quickly…especially for RAdmin tools… Chocolatey Https://chocolatey.org.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 253 social mentions
Google Landing Page

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Google

Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web

Firefox which fires up with google.com to search for anyone who solved your problem already ;-).

#Search Engine #Internet Search #Web Search 3737 social mentions
Windows Repair Toolbox Landing Page

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Windows Repair Toolbox

Windows Repair Toolbox is a software created to help you repair a Windows system, by making the...

#Utilities #Data Cleansing #OS & Utilities 11 social mentions
Rustdesk Landing Page
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Rustdesk

Discover RustDesk, The best open source remote desktop software. It is an alternative of TeamViewer and AnyDesk. You have full control of your data, no concern of security.
Pricing:
- Open Source
You are thinking of RustDesk: https://rustdesk.com/ (written in Rust).

#Remote Desktop #Remote PC Control #Remote PC Access 92 social mentions
Fping (open source) Landing Page
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F

Fping (open source)

fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #OS & Utilities #Security