SysInternals offers a lot of useful tools for Windows computers. These can either add more functionality, work-around different quirks, or gather more information for debugging.
This article is divided into two sections. I tried to separate the utilities into General use and IT use. Those in the General use category might have a larger interested audience and those in the IT category would be of particular interest to those in IT or regular computer maintenance.
Useful for everybody:
Desktops allows you to create up to 3 additional virtual desktops for your computer. This only requires about 5 megabytes of memory for the process and allows you to keep your organizational spaces organized. You could have one desktop where you are browsing, another for working on a document, and etc. As you can see in the screenshot below, you can configure hotkeys to switch easily between desktops and enable the program as a service so it starts up with your computer.
Unfortunately, Firefox has the same issues as having more than one session with Remote Desktop. You can open Firefox on more than one desktop if you use a different profile on each one otherwise you’ll get a message that the profile is in use.
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An interesting question has come up in the 404 Tech Support forums that I have answered to the best of my abilities. It expands on several topics that I’ve discussed before such as using Kon-Boot to get logged into the machine (or other means), viewing saved passwords in browsers, and circumventing some security measures by using the target hard drive as a secondary hard drive in a second system. Having a legitimate reason, I hope this information is useful to Ajay, who originally asked this question.
