Sysinternals Utilities and Resources
Solution AcceleratorsMicrosoft Solution Accelerators are a collection of fully supported tools, scripts, models, and best practices to proactively plan, integrate, and operate IT systems. | Sysinternals Live is a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as http://live.sysinternals.com/<toolname> or \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname>. You can view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at http://live.sysinternals.com. What’s New .gif) What’s New (November 3, 2009)- NewSID Retirement and the Machine SID Duplication Myth
Mark’s latest blog post debunks the myth that having duplicate machine SIDs causes problems, explaining why the Sysinternals NewSID tool has been retired. - Disk2vhd v1.3
This update to Disk2vhd makes more Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 VHDs bootable by updating their MBR and boot sectors to be compatible with Hyper-V and Virtual PC and by installing the Intelide driver if it it’s not already installed. It also optimizes image creation by not copying paging and hibernation files. - Sigcheck v1.62
This update to Sigcheck, a utility that displays file version and digital signature information, removes a file size limit for generating file hashes, works on 64-bit MSI files, and reports expired signatures.
What’s New (October 22, 2009)- Windows 7 General Availability and Mark on Channel 9
Check out Mark’s latest Channel 9 interview on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 kernel changes, released today to coincide with Windows 7’s general availability. He talks about memory management, process reflection and more, and shows a couple of demos on a 256-processor system.
What’s New (October 21, 2009)- Disk2vhd v1.1
Disk2vhd now supports command-line options for automation and fixes a bug that could result in an “invalid user buffer” error during a conversion. - ZoomIt v4.1
Zoomit is a screen magnification and annotation utility that's useful for technical presentations. With this update, you can now easily switch between LiveZoom (supported on Vista and Windows 7) and drawing mode. - Coreinfo v2.0
`Coreinfo now supports IA64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems with more than 64 logical processors.
What’s New (October 7, 2009)- Disk2vhd v1.0
We’re excited to announce a new Sysinternals tool, Disk2vhd, that simplifies the migration of physical systems into virtual machines (p2v). Just run Disk2vhd on the system you want to migrate and specify the volumes for which you want data included, and Disk2vhd creates a consistent point-in-time volume snapshot followed by an export of the selected volumes into one or more VHDs that you can add to a new or existing Hyper-V or Virtual PC virtual machine.
What’s New (October 1, 2009)- LiveKd v3.1
This update to LiveKd, a tool that enables you to perform local kernel debugging using the Windbg tool, adds support for systems with more than 4GB of RAM and now works on x64 systems even when they aren't booted in debugging mode. - Mark's Blog: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles
Mark's latest post in his Pushing the Limits of Windows series goes inside the limits that affect handle usage. He explains the role of handles, describes how the system manages them, and shows you how to identify and debug handle leaks. - Mark Talks About Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at Intel Developer Forum
Mark gave a joint presentation with Shiv Kaushik, an Intel Fellow, at IDF in San Francisco on how Microsoft and Intel collaborated during the development process to make sure that Windows takes advantage of new Intel processor features and enhancements.
What’s New (September 17, 2009)- Process Monitor v2.7
This update to Process Monitor, a system monitoring utility, adds a new option to the process tree dialog that direct it to show just the timeline for displayed events, uses kernel-based thread profiling on Vista and higher for better performance, and includes a number of minor fixes and enhancements. - ProcDump v1.5
ProcDump now includes a new switch that enables the creation of a process dump upon process termination, which can help with troubleshooting unexpected process termination. It also fixes a bug where the -ma switch wouldn’t generate a full dump when combined with -r , the Windows 7-specific process reflection switch.
What’s New (August 12, 2009)- Mark’s Blog: The Case of the Temporary Registry Profiles
In the latest post in Mark’s “Case of the Unexplained” series, he documents a perplexing case affecting many Microsoft and Citrix customers that Microsoft Customer Support Services solved with the use of Process Monitor’s boot logging and stack trace features. - Windows Internals Sample Chapter: Processes, Threads and Jobs
Learn the difference between a process and a thread, how Windows schedules threads, and how Job objects encapsulate groups of processes in the full processes, threads and jobs chapter from Windows Internals, 5th Edition, now available for free download.
What’s New (August 5, 2009)- ZoomIt v4.0
In addition to minor bug fixes, this update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, has significant improvements to the live zoom functionality that’s available on Vista and Windows 7. For example, it removes the shadow mouse, it uses a better mouse tracking algorithm and on Windows 7 it adds zoom-in and zoom-out transitions.
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