As you already know, all SysInternals utilities are available as a file share. Meaning you can run the tools directly from the Internet (e.g http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/controlpanel/blogs/$live.sysinternals.com \<toolName>), navigate to them with your browser or even map a drive on your local computer. The SysInternals tools suite is a must have on any sysadmin machine. On my computer I keep them in a special directory (c:\sysint). From time to time the tools get updated or new tools get published...
With BGInfo , from SysInternals , you can display various system configuration values on screen, such as the computer name, IP address, operating system version etc. What if you want to display values from other sources, like the registry or from WMI or even from your own custom script? BGInfo is flexible enough to get/set this values for you with a few mouse clicks. For example, on our servers I wanted to add the server model and Serial number. This is the main BGInfo window. You can edit which...