FireDaemon

Useful Software: Moo0 SystemMonitor

Moo0 SystemMonitor is an application that displays various system statistics right on your desktop.  It has a large variety of sensors like CPU usage per core, free memory, hard drive temperature,  incoming and outgoing bandwidth and much much more.

It doesn’t use too many system resources (ive noticed on 2 server systems and 1 client system that it uses around 20MB of memory and between 0.20% to 1.3% CPU).  It’s an especially useful application to use on a server since you can monitor everything going on in one central location.

You can change skins, increase/decrease the font size, change transparency, dock it, auto hide it, change the layout and more.

You can download Moo0 SystemMonitor from http://www.moo0.com/software/SystemMonitor/

Moo0 SystemMonitor is freeware and is compatible with Windows XP/2003/Vista

Useful Software: ClickOff

ClickOff is a freeware application that allows you to automatically close popup error windows, application windows, fill in text, click dialogs,  etc.  It’s alot easier to use than AutoHotKey because scripting is not required.

It also makes a great companion to FireDaemon because it closes any popup error windows.  The problem with this application is that you must leave your computer/server logged in for the window close to work.  Logging out or trying to run the application itself as a service does not work.

ClickOff is freeware and is available from the author’s website at http://www.johanneshuebner.com/en/clickoff.shtml

I have tested the application on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003 Server.  It should probably work on other windows variants too.  There is some minor GUI corruption in Vista, but that’s probably because its not fully supported.

Running Insurgency Dedicated Server (INS DS) as a Service

Insurgency is a first person action game.

You can run your dedicated server as a Windows Service and by doing this you can start your dedicated server automatically at boot prior to login, start multiple instances of the dedicated server, restart the dedicated server if it shuts down or crashes and so forth.

We’ve created an easy step by step guide on how to run it as a Windows Service.

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