Download Sysinternals Suite 2014-05-02

Microsoft has released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite. This package is a collection of useful tools for managing systems and obtaining comprehensive information about the computer. In this way, all kinds of problems can be detected and solved.

The individual tools are developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, initially for Sysinternals and since 2006 for Microsoft. Some examples are Process Explorer, Bginfo, contig and disk mon. In total it concerns a collection of 70 different tools. By the way, the latest versions of the individual programs can also be here are being found. In the past month, the following parts of the Suite have been updated:

AccessChk v5.2:
This release of AccessChk, a security command-line utility that reports the effective access and permissions of files, registry keys, processes, and more, adds support for file and printer shares. In addition, it adds filtering options for viewing accesses related to specified accounts and now includes the System Access Control List (SACL) when it dumps security descriptors.

PSExec v2.11:
This release to PsExec, a command-line remote execution utility, fixes a bug in the implementation of the -s (execute as local system) option on Windows Server 2003.

Sign check v2.1:
This update to Sigcheck, a command-line utility that shows file version and digital signature information, now reports a file’s entropy (average bits/byte required to encode its data), can dump information about catalog files including the hashes they store, and can list the certificates installed in the per-user and machine certificate store.

VMmap v3.12:
This release of VMMap, a tool for analyzing process virtual and physical memory usage, fixes a bug affecting queries of files stored on file shares, fixes a bug in copy-to-clipboard of 64-bit addresses, now reports an error when attempting to open stacks on loaded traces, and fixes a bug in the reserved memory working set calculation.