The entire set of Sysinternals Utilities rolled up into a single download. This suite is useful while analyzing (or) debugging Windows Programs.
2 Debugging Tools for Windows - http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/Debugging/default.mspx
You can use Debugging Tools for Windows to debug drivers, applications, and services on systems that are running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows 7. You can also use Debugging Tools for Windows to debug the operating system itself. Versions of the Debugging Tools for Windows package are available for 32-bit x86, native Intel Itanium, and native x64 platform
Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.
Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.
a. Handle - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out.Handle is a utility that displays information about open handles for any process in the system. You can use it to see the programs that have a file open, or to see the object types and names of all the handles of a program.
b. Registry Scanner - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html
RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value in RegEdit, simply by double-clicking the desired Registry item. You can also export the found Registry values into a .reg file that can be used in RegEdit.
c. IE Cookies Viewer - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iecookies.html
d. Flash Cookies Viewer - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/flash_cookies_view.html
e. Shell Extensions Viewer -http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
f. URL Protocol Viewer - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/url_protocol_view.html
g. Application Crash View (points to the faulty module) - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_crash_view.html
h. WhatInStartup : Enable/Disable/Delete the programs that run at Windows Startup -
i. BlueScreen Viewer - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
j. List of tools from Nir Sofer -
http://www.snapfiles.com/publishers/nir-sofer/index.html
5 Total UnInstall - http://www.martau.com/uninstaller-download.php
Total Uninstall helps you monitor any changes that are made to your system during installation of a new software product allowing you to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied uninstall program (which may leave files or changes behind).It gives the snapshot of what files & registry entries changed because of the installation of the Software.
6. Resource Hacking Tools -
a. Resource Hacker –
Resource Hacker is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit/64bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
b. Resource Editor –
Resource Editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer for Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP
http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm
c. Manifest View (kenn Kerr)
View the Manifest of a Exe/Dll file
http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/kennykerr/ManifestView.zip
http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2007/07/10/manifest-view-1-0.aspx
7 AnVir TaskManager - http://www.anvir.com/
AnVir Task Manager offers users a one-stop shop for managing your system's running processes and applications
8 CFF Explorer - http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php
A freeware suite of tools including a PE editor called CFF Explorer and a process viewer
9 Wireshark - http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Network Protocol Analyzer, formerly called Etherea
10 ListDLLs
List all the DLLs that are currently loaded, including where they are loaded and their version numbers. Version 2.0 prints the full path names of loaded modules.
11 DebugView
Another first from Sysinternals: This program intercepts calls made to DbgPrint by device drivers and OutputDebugString made by Win32 programs. It allows for viewing and recording of debug session output on your local machine or across the Internet without an active debugger.
12 Sigcheck
Dump file version information and verify that images on your system are digitally signed.
13 PortMon
Monitor serial and parallel port activity with this advanced monitoring tool. It knows about all standard serial and parallel IOCTLs and even shows you a portion of the data being sent and received. Version 3.x has powerful new UI enhancements and advanced filtering capabilities.
14 TCPView
Active socket command-line viewer.
15 Strings
Search for ANSI and UNICODE strings in binaryimages.
16 Autoruns
See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login. Autoruns also shows you the full list of Registry and file locations where applications can configure auto-start settings.
17 RegShot - http://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/
Regshot is an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.
18 AdExplorer
Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.
19 AdInsight
An LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications.
20 Miscellaneous
a. OpenSource Windows Tools - http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
b. FileZilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
c. 7-Zip – http://www.7-zip.org/
A file archiver with a high compression ratio.
d. GIMP - http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features
