If you have geek in your blood, then I am sure you have heard of the utilities developed by Windows Sysinternals and NirSoft . If not, below is a description of each:
The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications.
NirSoft web site provides a unique collection of small and useful freeware utilities, all of them developed by Nir Sofer. Nir Sofer is an experienced developer with extensive knowledge in C++, .NET Framework, Windows API, and Reverse Engineering of undocumented binary formats and encryption algorithms.
The tech utilities maintained by these two sites are phenomenal and are utilities that every tech should have available on their flash drives. As a matter of fact, there are so many of them it is a chore to keep them up to date or remember what task each utility actually performs; HOWEVER, there is a solution to this problem.
Today, I want to show you another utility called WSCC (Windows System Control Center) that will bring the Windows Sysinternals utilities, the NirSoft utilites and your Windows based (built-in) utilities together as a software suite. WSCC is FREE and is a portable app.
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WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC can install and update the supported utilities automatically. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. WSCC is portable, installation is not required. Extract the content of the downloaded zip archive to any directory on your computer.
WSCC is a must have program for techs. WSCC serves as the gateway to downloading all of these utilities in a batch, will allow you to perform batch updates of the utilities and the best part is this; WSCC defines what the utility actually does. There may be many utilities that you do not need, but I am telling you, this is the way to go. This program will keep everything nice and organized (and up to date).
IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT: When dealing with utilities such as these, it is not uncommon for your antivirus software to detect these type of utilities as being a bad guy (or what is called a False Positive). In this case, any of the utilities developed by either of these parties are the good guys and you can tell your antivirus software that it is OK to let them through.
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Thanks Rick. This will come handy for me. I have used Nisoft utilities many of times and they are very good. And a good point that some antivirus do detect them has viruses. And they do. Another great find. So thank you again.
Cappydog,
This utility will definitely save us some time and will serve to make sure we have the most up-to-date utilities.
Thanks for commenting…
Rick
[...] A “Must Have” Portable App Suite for Techs – If you have geek in your blood, then I am sure you have heard of the utilities developed by Windows Sysinternals and NirSoft. The tech utilities maintained by these two sites are phenomenal and are utilities that every tech should have available on their flash drives. As a matter of fact, there are so many of them it is a chore to keep them up to date or remember what task each utility actually performs; HOWEVER, there is a solution to this problem. [...]
Hello Rick,
small glitch in the download….above…..listed as:
BatteryInfoView……current version 1.15…..New Version 1.13…..Status. wrong update version.
Thought you might get back to the originator of the list with this one…
thanks for all the good stuff,
lucien
Rick – thanks for the freeware links again. We once again shared these to our Facebook site – Tennessee Technology Center at Shelbyville – Technical Blog which reaches our generation ‘Y’ group of students. Excellent post as always. Steve
Steve,
Thank you for this… Knowing that I am posting information, that can be used for educational purposes, makes blogging all that much worth it.
Rick