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I use Royal TS, Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagramer, FireFox, Hyena.

The two tools I use by far the most are Software: My brain and Hardware: My hands.

I find Dameware NT Utilities to be an indispensables tool for troubleshooting an AD-based network and remote clients/servers.

I may have to lookup that TakeColor App.  I started trying to od web pages and it would be helpful.

In Linux I use Webmin for most all adminstrative duties. It's easy, remotly accessable and a uniform interface regardless of which distribution I'm using.

Another must have piece for anyone with a home wireless network is dd-wrt. It's third party firmware that will run on most any wireless router and will allow you to set up wireless bridging amongst a number of other things. Personally, I have noticed a huge performance increase on my two Linksys WRT-54G v7 routers. Why let the manufacturer define what your hardware is capable of?

Solorwinds was meh in my opinion. I used it at my last job and it can get to be really slow when you monitoring a few thousand sites. Also, the licensing can be a pain when you only have one or two administrative logins. Nagios is the open source alternative and has extensions for firefox that will alert you when a site is down.

Finally, Google.... great for finding more information on aforementioned tools.

I use BartPE on a bootable USB key with a ton of SW for fixing 95% of computer issues including viruses.

Solarwinds has wonderful tools.  I have the full version of the Engineer's Toolkit and I love it.  Not the best for monitoring, but awesome for research and "finding" mac's and IP's.  I use a Fluke to do all my network monitoring.  LOVE Cisco's Network Assist, I'm a GUI girl.  Putty, VMWare, Server 2003, the usual stuff.  Hardware is usually a punch down tool, Cat 6 wire, virtual and physical computers and my oh-so-picked brain.

visual basic dot net, windows, norton these are just some basic software programs and tools but these three alone will take you all day!

Hardware- AMD 3200, 1G RAM, 512 3D Card, 80x4 RAID etc..

Software- LINUX- G++, DDD, VI Editor, GIMP, Valgrind, Subversion, Doxgen, Umbrello, Wireshark etc...

I use packet tracer alot in school it's a good planning tool.

Dameware NT Utilities, Active Directory MMC, Norton Ghost, and a few less savory tools for changing local admin passwords when the team forgets them.

Norton Ghost Server,

TFTPD32 Server,

OpenSSH (for very little things, not always work related),

Angry IP scanner (to chek out thingys ;-)),

Neo Trace Pro 3.25 (to check from where are the thingys),

Visual Basic/C++ Express 2003 (I like to have my personal command under C:\WINDOWS\System32),

3com boot service,

ERD Commander 2005,

Iso-Burner,

a PATRIOT USB Flash Drive (and a second one bootable with Ubuntu if I don't have any acces to PC and I need to use Firefox to check my emails),

GIMP,

mstsc (rdesktop),

dsa.msc,

virtual pc 2007,

a LeatherMan Wave,

a Mini-Maglite,

and my cell-phone Camera,

my credit card,

a bump key (sometimes, useful) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O83MxpEJVVA

I have more heavy-duty hardware that wouldn't get out of my house : driller not wireless lol!! A chainsaw... LOL!! 

VisualStudio 2008 Express, PSPad, Opera, Firefox, FastStoneViewer, Xnview, GIMP, Paint .Net,  Winamp, K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.

i am java software engineer.

All what I need to do my work are Eclipse, java tools (sdk, jre, profiler...), Far Manager, Microsoft Office, Cisco VPN, Firefox, IE, Total Commander, Skype, Oracle client, MSSQL client, SQL Developer