There are some free tools that we can use in Windows environment that help us in performance analysis, troubleshooting, documentation usage, and server configuration.

You can download these tools from Windows Sysinternals website:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027.aspx


This is my favourite tool list:

Access Chk
Access Enum
AD Explorer
Core info
Disk Ext
Disk Mon
Disk Usage
Disk View
Handle
Load Order
Logon Sessions
NTFS Info
Page Defrag
Process Explorer
Process Monitor
Ps Tools (todos os Ps???)
TCP View

If you need help to use or to know about some of them, you can use the FORUM to post questions about them:

http://www.keep-learning.com/forum/