Restoring objects deleted accidentally in Active Directory (Windows Server 2003)

Deleted objects in Active Directory are not really deleted, they are just "tombstoned" for a period of time that can either be 60/180 days, depending on your DCs' operating system, or any other value, if it was ever changed by the system administrator.

Restoring objects with ADRestore.net

Guy Teverovsky, a fellow MVP from Israel, has written a cool tool that allows you to easily restore deleted AD objects. The tool is provided as freeware and has no kind of support, but from what I've seen, it works great. Some of the tools features include:

• Browsing the tombstones
• Domain Controller targeting
• Can be used with alternative credentials (convenient if you do not logon to your desktop as Domain Admin, which you should never do anyway)
• User/Computer/OU/Container reanimation
• Preview of tombstone attributes

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TouchFreeze - Diables your touchpad while typing

Annoyed when you are typing a document and accidentally the palm of your hand brushes the touchpad, changing the position of the cursor in your document or accidentally clicking on an option. TouchFreeze is simple utility for Windows NT/2000/XP that solves this problem. It automatically disables touchpad while you are typing text. Like syndaemon on x-windows.

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UNetbootin - Boot from and ISO Image

UNetbootin - Boot from and ISO Image

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.

For more details, visit http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

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Print Screen - Ashampoo® Magical Snap Free

Ashampoo® Magical Snap Free

Capture, enhance and edit: Make professional screenshots easily!
You have to see it to believe it – graphics editing has never been this easy!
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raid2raid - Data Recovery for Free

Recovering lost data is possible if your system can still detect your hard drive or memory card! I will show you how to retrieve your lost data using free utility.

1. Download and install raid2raid. After installation, start the utility and double click the volume or physical drive from where the data needs to be recovered

2. After a few moments a list of all files and folders present and deleted on the drive will be displayed. Select the ones you need to be recovered

3. Once the files and folders are selected, right-click on any of the selected elements and click on ‘Recover this file’ from the context menu

4. Choose an alternate location for the recovered files to be saved and Raid2Raid will start the recovery process

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Transfer Files Lightning Fast With FastCopy

Free application FastCopy is a portable replacement for the standard Windows Explorer file copying mechanism. FastCopy's interface is rather cluttered but the file transfer speeds are fantastic. Copying ISO files, thousands of pictures, and other test files was extremely fast. You can opt to not overwrite, overwrite by newest or biggest file, and sync when transferring files with FastCopy. We've covered another popular file copier replacement here before, TeraCopy, and you might be wondering how FastCopy stacks up against it.
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Fast Duplicate File Finder

Fast Duplicate File Finder will help you find fast all duplicate files in a folder and its sub folders. The applications will compare the content of your files so it will find duplicates even if they are using different file names.
It uses fast binary comparison algorithm and has internal preview supporting a lot of image, video, music and text file formats. You can also preview the files in binary mode. When the scan process is finished the program shows you all duplicate files in groups and can automatically mark the older files for deletion. The auto mark algorithm has advanced settings to exclude from auto mark files with user specified extensions, file sizes, file dates and file names. You can also set which folders you want to exclude from the auto mark. There is an option to protect system files and folders which is recommended to be turned on. More Details...

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Little Registry Cleaner and Optimizer

Little Registry Cleaner is the first registry cleaner that is available as open source. It fixes your computer by scanning essential areas of the registry. You can also save backups of the registry, prevent registry keys from being scanned, and much more...

Little Registry Optimizer is a part of Little Apps` Little Registry Cleaner. This project is aimed to analyze the windows registry and (if needed) optimize it so it will be smaller and run smoother when the computer is rebooted. More Details...
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Application Locker - Instantly and easily lock access to applications in any environment!try it, its free!

AppLockerFeatures:
Secure and enhance performance to your Terminal Server and workstations by preventing execution of chosen applications.
Prevent access to any application by executable filename.
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Folder Size - TreeSize Free

TreeSize Free - Every hard disk is too small if you just wait long enough. TreeSize Free tells you where precious space has gone to. TreeSize Free can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style and you will see the size of every subfolder. Scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize Free is working. The space, which is wasted by the file system, can be displayed and the results can be printed in a report.
TreeSize Free is freeware for Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Users of Windows 9x/ME can download last compatible version
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Delay your Startup Programs with Startup Delayer

The power to speed up your computer's startup process!

For Example: If you have your mail program and a special clock starting up, then you can make your mail start say 10 seconds after Windows has loaded, and then the special clock start 20 seconds after Windows Starts.

Compatible with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

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Internet Explorer - BackUp All Your Passwords and Settings Easily

Most of the users use Mozilla Firefox to surf Internet but not all. In past I wrote a lot about Mozilla Firefox add-ons, themes, tips and tricks but today's post if for Internet Explorer users.Here is a simple application known as Internet Explorer Backup. It allows you to backup favorites, history, proxy settings, fonts, dialup accounts, autocomplete passwords and cookies.BackRex Internet Explorer Backup can help you to move all your Internet Explorer settings from one computer to another, even if it has a different version of Windows and/or Internet Explorer installed (for example from Internet Explorer 5.0 to Internet Explorer 6.0 or vice versa).With Scheduled Backup feature you can backup all your data on a regular basis - daily, weekly or monthly.

For More Details, Visit http://www.backsettings.com/internet-explorer-backup.html

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Find and Run Robot (FARR) - Desktop Search

Find and Run Robot (FARR) is a program for keyboard maniacs -- it uses an adaptive "live search" function to rapidly find programs and documents on your computer as you type.

FARR also lets you quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more. Build and share custom commands or install plugins to add tons of new features, like live search features for your clipboard history and your internet bookmarks; a popup a calculator with history tape and persistant variables; and many more.

For More Details, Visit http://tinyurl.com/7mua5

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Rohos Mini Drive - password-protected partition on your flash drive/ USB drives

Rohos Mini Drive creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. You work with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special program. Those who have megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive and seriously concerned with a data security, cannot imagine their USB stick without the hidden volume that is created using this tool.

It doesn’t require Administrator Privileges to open password protected USB drive partition!

Easy to setup, easy to use. Intuitive USB flash drive Setup Wizard automatically detects your USB flash drive and setup an ecnrypted partition properties. You just need to provide a protection password. One click - and you can save your first file into protected volume. Encryption is automatic and on-the-fly.
You can access your secret volume by entering a right password.

Disk-on notifications helps you to know when this volume is visible or disabled. If you click on the baloon the Explorer window will be opened on the disk.

If you need to open secured volume on a guest computer, you just click Rohos icon on the USB flash drive root folder and enter disk password. Rohos will start a volume and will sit near the system clock to close the disk when you’ll finish.

Despite the name “Mini” the program provides a decent USB flash drive password protection, has all necessary functions and wonderful user interface.

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T r u e C r y p t - Free Encryption Software

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux

Main Features:
- Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
- Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
- Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
- Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
- Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:

1) Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.

2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
For More Details, Visit http://www.truecrypt.org/

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Hard disk Usage / Find Hard Disk space

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants). WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: the directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size; the treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away; and the extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

For More Details, Visit http://windirstat.info/

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Find Microsoft Keys / Serial Numbers Freeware: MSKeyViewer Plus

MSKeyViewer Plus retrieves full product-key information for numerous licensed applications, and it does it with a fair bit of style.

A program created to view program installation keys, service pack levels, and product IDs along with detecting many other non-licensed program versions. Works for most versions of Microsoft Windows, Office, Exchange, SQL Server, Norton AntiVirus 2004-2007, and more! A complete list of supported programs is included in the About window of the program.

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Stick Notes - Featured Freeware: Stick

FREE Sticky Notes - easy to use sticky notes program

Free Sticky Notes resides in the system tray that provides quick and easy access to sticky notes and program options. The color of the Free Sticky Notes tray icon is different depending on if there are some hidden notes or not. Tray menu is accessible by right-clicking on the Free Sticky Notes tray icon.

For More Details, Visit http://www.freestickynotes.com/sticky-notes-program.html

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MojoPac - Packed your OS on a USB drive

MojoPac - a friendly technology that allow you to take your entire PC on any storage device such as iPOD or USB drive or any removable device.
For More Details, visit http://www.mojopac.com/
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Universal Extractor - Extract or Unzip any format

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program (like Wise or NSIS), or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. More Details...
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