Sysinternals tools now available from Microsoft
The integration of the Sysinternals tools and site by Microsoft is complete.
Winternals and Sysinternals (originally NTInternals) were founded by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell in 1996. They provided a host of very useful utilities for troubleshooting and management of Windows systems and applications. Microsoft acquired Winternals Software and Sysinternals in July this year and is now publishing the tools at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals.
The utilities, available for free, include:
- File and disk utilities - viewing and monitoring file and disk access and usage.
- Networking - tools that range from connection monitors to resource security analyzers.
- Processes and threads - utilities for looking under the hood to see what processes are doing and the resources they are consuming.
- Security utilities - security configuration and management utilities, including rootkit and spyware hunting programs.
- System information - utilities for looking at system resource usage and configuration.
- Miscellaneous - a collection of diverse utilities that includes a screen saver, presentation aid, and debugging tool.
To give you an idea of what you'll find there, here are some utilities:
- Process Monitor - A system monitoring tool that replaces Regmon and Filemon by including file system and registry monitoring, and adds process, thread, and DLL monitoring as well as advanced filtering, event information, and basic data mining capabilities.
- Process Explorer - Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.
- Handle - A command-line utility that shows you what files are open by which processes. Useful to know what locks a file, for example.