Best unnoticed tools from Microsoft

Microsoft has published few great tools but due to the fact that they are not included in their OS itself they are fairly unknown. You can check out their downloads page or better the sysinternals page if you are more into system administration or are a windows savvy for that matters. Following are few great tools in their huge repertoire. I will post more later.

1. Process Monitor
   Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.
2. Process Explorer
   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.
3. AD Explorer
   Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.
4. TCPView
   Active socket command-line viewer.
5. 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.
6. ZoomIt
   Presentation utility for zooming and drawing on the screen.
7. 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.

The entire system internal tools can be downloaded from the Microsoft site as well. Click here for it.

I will update with other really handy tools later.