Lansweeper - a complete software, hardware, asset inventory of your windows network.

Lansweeper is a powerful freeware solution without any embedded ads to make a complete software, hardware, asset inventory of your windows network. No need to install a client on your workstations, all scanning is done through the use of WMI, fileshares and remote registry access. You can use lansweeper with unlimited clients (no restrictions) One lansweeper service can handle over 10.000 clients (depending on your server specifications)

Network inventory advantages:
* Automatic inventory of all your Windows clients.
* No need to install clients on the workstations.
* Query and store the registry keys you specify from all your clients.
* Find unknown running processes, spyware, browser hijacks, ... running in your company.
* Use the webconsole or custom queries to use your gathered information.
* Combine the information found with active directory details.
* Lansweeper stores all information in SQL server (or in the free SQL Express version)


Advantages of hardware and software inventory done by lansweeper:
Most commercial applications are very expensive and are licensed on a "per device" model. The only limitations of lansweeper are the speed of your server and your bandwidth. By using free databases like MSDE and SQL express you can make your own queries and reports to enhance the program.

Software inventory problems in other applications:
* You have to install clients (software / agents) on your workstations.
* Scanning is triggered or scheduled at time intervals.
* Laptop users coming into your network only every 2 months aren't scanned.
* Scanning takes a long time.
* You do not get all the information you want from the scans.
* You cannot scan for custom files or registry keys.

Lansweeper solves these network inventory problems with a simple line in the logon script of each user.The first time somebody logs on at a new computer the computer is automatically scanned and all hardware and software inventory is done.

Lansweeper is scanning much more useful information than other programs:

User data User data, pictures, groups, logon times, ...
Hardware inventory
All hardware information you could ever need
Software inventory
All installed software, patches and available licenses configuration
All computer configuration information windows
All windows configuration information
Active directory
All Active Directory user and computer details
Running processes All running processes Registry keys
Custom registry keys that you specify
Internet Explorer addons, bars, BHO's and activeX controls.

Lansweeper works with:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/2003 Server/ 2008 Server

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NetMeter from Readerror - Freeware

NetMeter is a small, customizable network bandwidth monitoring program

NetMeter is a small, yet versatile, customizable and free network bandwidth monitoring program. Realtime bandwith monitoring was never easier.
Requirements:
· Windows 2000 or newer is required for "transparency" and "balloon hint" features· If you are using Windows 95 you will have to install an update from Microsoft that contains the IP-Helper API (IPHLPAPI.DLL). As far as i know this DLL is included in the Internet Explorer 5.x installation package.· Windows NT 4.0: Service Pack 4 or newer is required· x64 versions of XP and Vista: NetMeter works fine on these 64-bit operating systems although it is not a native 64-bit binary. Vista Ultimate 64-bit is my current development platform. Nevertheless i will continue to maintain compatibility down to Windows 95.

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Angry IP Scanner

Angry IP Scanner is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses and ports as well as has many other features.

It is widely used by network administrators and just curious users around the world, including large and small enterprises, banks, and government agencies.

It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, possibly supporting other platforms as well.

Scanning of computer networks (searching for addresses with known properties) is a practice that is often used by both network administrators and crackers. Although it is widely accepted that activity of the latter is often illegal, most of the time they depend on exactly the same tools that can be used for perfectly legitimate network administration – just like a kitchen knife that can be used maliciously. Thanks to the recent activity of mass-media on the subject (that popularized the wrong term for a cracker – a 'hacker'), nowadays every educated person more or less understands the reasons and goals that stand behind malicious cracking: curiosity, stealing of information, making damage, showing self-importance to the world, etc. But why do administrators need to scan their own networks? There are plenty of answers: to check status of computers and various network devices (are they up or down), find spare addresses in statically-addressed networks, monitor the usage of server-type or P2P applications, make inventory of available hardware and software, check for recently discovered holes in order to patch them, and much more things that are even difficult to foresee.

Angry IP Scanner is widely-used open-source and multi-platform network scanner. As a rule, almost all such programs are open-source, because they are developed with the collaboration of many people without having any commercial goals. Secure networks are possible only with the help of open-source systems and tools, possibly reviewed by thousands of independent experts and hackers alike.

Certainly, there are other network scanners in existence (especially single-host port scanners), however, most of them are not cross-platform, are too simple and do not offer the same level of extensibility and user-friendliness as Angry IP Scanner. The program's target audience are network administrators, consultants, developers, who all use the tool every day and therefore have advanced requirements for usability, configurability, and extensibility. However, Angry IP Scanner aims to be very friendly to novice users as well.

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