A full bunch of tools provided by Windows 2000 and XP that can employ to run many applications and settings employed for Windows. They are regularly more superior to tools there in Control Panel. Here is a breakdown of managerial tools and their functions.

Component Services
This administrative tool permits you to organize and manage COM parts and COM+ applications. COM+ is an addition of Component Object Model (COM), Microsoft's planned building block approach for developing application programs. COM is employed by developers to generate re-usable software parts, link parts together to build applications, and take benefit of Windows services. Here you can install and arrange COM+ applications, set security at application level, and make and preserve COM+ partitions.

Computer Management
This area provides tools that you can utilize to manage networks, computers, services and other system fractions.

Data Sources (ODBC)
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) statistics sources stored statistics about how to attach to a data provider. It is a normal application programming interface (API) for accessing statistics in both relational and non-relational database management systems. ODBC creates it probable to access any data from any application, although of which database management system is controlling statistics.

Event Viewer
This is employed to monitor events recorded in Application, Security and System logs.

Group Policy Management
This offers a single consumer interface through which to run Group Policy across an enterprise. You can make and revise polices that control management of machines and consumers in an Active Directory environment. You can handle users, computers, domains, sites and managerial units.

Local Security Policy
This can be utilized to directly change account and local policies, public key policies and IP security policies for local PC. Security policy is a blend of security settings that change security on PC. You can organize settings for items akin to who is allowable to accesses your PC, what resources users are allowed to utilize on PC and whether or not a user or group's actions are recorded in event log.

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Configuration
.NET Framework 1.1 Configuration permits you to systematize assemblies, remoting services, and code access security policy picky to edition 1.1 of .NET Framework.

Performance
Performance Logs and Alerts carry full monitoring of employ of operating system resources. You can gather performance data mechanically from local PCs. You can look logged counter data using System Monitor or send statistics to spreadsheet programs or databases for study and report generation.

Services
You can utilize Services to sprint services on remote PCs. This is an application form that runs in background and offers aspects like client or server applications, Web servers, database servers, and other server based applications to consumers, both locally and across network.