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"Tired of crappy software? AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you great alternatives, based on user recommendations."

"A Free Standalone GUI utility to Set Permissions for any Windows Service Easily allow (or deny) a user the ability to start, stop, pause or modify any Windows Service with just a few clicks of your mouse! Service Security Editor will help you to configure who can access your important Windows Services. It is an easy-to-use GUI alternative to Microsoft's powerful SC and SubInACL.exe command line programs. However, as with any other administrative tool, please use it with caution"

To set a static ARP entry, the command used to be arp -s IP MAC, but on Server 2008 R2 and perhaps others back to Windows 7/Server 2008, this command may not work even if Run as Admin. However, the netsh commands in this Q&A provide alternate syntax that does work for the same purpose.

Adding a User Principal Name, or UPN, to Active Directory lets you match user logon names to email addresses, for example, among other things. This page describes how to add a UPN to Active Directory, so you can assign the alternate name to a user in Active Directory Users and Computers.

"HTTP Commander is a web file manager known since 2002 and used by 100s of educational organisations and companies. It's a web file sharing and management, file upload -alternative to FTP, WebDav, Sharepoint, Novell, etc. colutions. This software is intended for fast and easy integration into web sites functionality of sharing and management files and documents at the server through a web browser over HTTP. Users can work remotely with personal or shared folders or edit documents online stored on a server." Brought to my attention (and demo'd) by Rob Shaw of Greenwood Christian Church at August Indianapolis CITRT.

"Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient NSIS installer that installs over 100 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 18 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run well over 100 MB depending upon options."