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Sysinternals Tools Now Available as a Single Download

The MS Sysinternals crew has created a number of really useful tools, like the previously mentioned Desktops, TCPView, and Process Explorer. In May, Microsoft put all the downloads together in one place, at live.sysinternals.com.

Fresh off the three-day weekend, they decided to simplify the download process even further by creating a single 8mb file containing their popular troubleshooting utilities.

No, the file doesn't contain the oh-so-fun BSOD screensaver (coming soon to your friend's trojan-infested Windows PC), but it does pack an incredible number of useful tools. Here's a sampling of what's in the file:

  • AdExplorer: allows viewing, editing, and backup of Active Directory databases
  • BGInfo: embeds info system like IP, CPU, ram, disk space on the desktop
  • Contig: single-file defragmenter
  • PageDefrag: defragments pagining, event log, hibernation, and registry files
  • RegMon: monitors the Windows registry for changes
  • RootkitRevealer: helps locate kernel and user-mode rootkits
  • Sync: Unix-style tool to flush system data to disk
Tons of other apps are included, and it's well worth any admin's time to take a few moments to download.

Filed under: Developer, Security, Utilities, News, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware

Original (pre-Microsoft) SysInternals utilities

Sysinternals original logoIf you were a big fan of SysInternals before Microsoft went and bought them, you might be interested in this extremely unofficial list of their utilities from their pre-Microsoft days. Now for the warnings: we have not downloaded or tried any of these utilities, and do not recommend that you do so. Of course downloading files from an unofficial source is unwise for all sorts of security-related reasons, particularly utilities that function at the low level that SysInternals utilities do. Further, being that Microsoft now owns SysInternals, downloading these files is almost certainly not allowed.

In fact, we suggest that if you're interested in the SysInternals utilities, check out Microsoft's SysInternals site and grab them from there. It's highly likely that once Microsoft catches wind of this unofficial listing of files, they'll get it shut down in short order.

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