LookInMyPC is a small (and portable) freeware tool designed to generate a comprehensive report of a system and export it to a HTML page. It will display antivirus, battery, bios, browser, installed applications, networking info, sound device and much more.

You can also see a sample report here

Ever wondered if a site was really down or was just blocking you (or there was some sort of routing problem between you and the site)?

Well, Down for everyone or just me and Is that site down are two sites that can help you quickly see what the real deal is. I'm sure there are plenty of other sites like it, but these are two quick loading sites that are also quite popular.

BlueScreenView by NirSoft is a handy little program I stumbled upon a while back. It loads the windows crash files and shows you USEFUL information from them. Without needing to have the Windows Debugger installed like with WhoCrashed and a bunch of others out there that I tried.

Probably the most annoying part is that I fought with a computer for a while one day that I couldn't get the debugger installed on until I found this program. Then realized I already had it on my USB drive as I have the full NirSoft collection on it. Oh well, I know it's there now

Download a copy at NirSoft's Homepage