"McAfee provides an assortment of free McAfee tools to help in your software development. Simply select a tool and download it for free."
System admin tools for forensics, password cracking, intrusion detection, network stress testing, and others. Many are not 64-bit compatible but there are some good, free gems.
"Ekahau HeatMapper is a free software tool for quick and easy coverage mapping of Wi-Fi (802.11) networks. It's the only free, easy-to-use tool that shows, on a map, the wireless network coverage in your home or small office. HeatMapper also locates all access points."
In addition to the free software, paid laptop and portable versions are available, with and without wireless cards and other hardware.
"Over the past month I have installed and tested almost every single tool on my previous blog post of A List of FREE VMware vSphere Tools." -Kendrick Coleman
"Look no further. I've created a collaboration of, yet again, FREE TOOLS for virtual machines within your VMware environment. All of the tools in this package were pooled together for performing advanced tasks to optimize performance, reclaim lost space, and clean up your virtual machine. The goal of this project was to mount the ISO to your VM and run the scripts or tools that are packaged. Of course not all of these tools will run from a VM, but most can."
Free Windows utility to share multiple computers with one mouse and keyboard. Similar to Synergy or Input Director. Also allows copy/paste, simultaneous lock/logon across systems, and screenshots sent from one computer to another.
Free tools like Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector and the Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Gadget for Windows 7 with links to other third-party systems/network admin tools. Very cool!
"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"
Very sweet, fully free (not crippled) to 100 submissions/mo then $10/mo (can upgrade for short periods if desired), online form designing and embedding service with WYSIWYG form design and lots of flexibility.
Free (up to 250MB) or paid online dashboard that lets you transfer/view/modify files across many Cloud platforms (DropBox, Box.com, Amazon S3, FTP, SkyDrive, Google Drive, etc.)
xNeat clipboard manager (free) is handy and very simple to use. it captures clipboard items as they are copied to the Windows Clipboard, and you can simply bring up a menu containing all (up to user-definable limit, default of 10) the previously copied items and select the item you want to paste from it using a hot key (by default, Ctrl+Shift+V).
"Thinware vBackup™ is an enterprise grade backup solution for virtual infrastructure that can be easily implemented in any environment." VMware virtual machine backup, similar to Veeam in concept but Free option (although much fewer features). May be useful in lab scenarios or very low-budget environments.
"AD Tidy is a completely free tool that I created to help other IT Pros out. It can be used to identify when user/computer accounts last logged on to the network and can tidy up these accounts in various different ways."
"Concerto is a free, Web-based broadcast medium for digital announcements that just works. Using Concerto, it's easy to engage large communities of people with graphical and text-based flyers, alerts, and other messages."
Ultimate-P2V (fix-vmscsi) is a free plug-in that allows you to clone a physical machine to virtual machine - and perform the neccessary "system reconfiguration" required to make it bootable. Without this tool or a commerical P2V tool the virtual machine would just give a "blue screen of death"
Freeware GUI for Windows Time Service configuration, allowing full control of time sync graphically but still using the Windows sync tools (unlike many tools that do the clock sync and set your clock directly). Works with Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 32-bit and 64-bit.