Download Sysinternals Suite 2012-10-17

Microsoft has released an update to the Sysinternals Suite. Sysinternals Suite is a collection of 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 were developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell: they used to work for Sysinternals, but are now part of Microsoft. Some examples of the available tools are Process Explorer, Bginfo, contig and disk mon. In total it concerns a collection of 69 different tools. By the way, the latest versions of the individual programs can also be here are being found. In this release, the following components of the Suite have been updated:

• Desktop v2.0
  Desktops, a virtual desktop utility for Windows that lets you create up to three additional workspaces, is now compatible with Windows 8, properly supporting Winkey hotkey sequences (like Winkey+R to bring up the Run dialog) on ​​alternate desktops and switching back to the primary desktop’s start screen when you hit Winkey.
• Livekd v5.3
  LiveKd, a command-line utility that enables you to use the Windows kernel debuggers to examine live systems as well as virtual machines, now supports Windows 8.
• Core Info v3.1
  This update to Coreinfo, a command line utility that reports detailed information about a system’s processor topology, CPU features, and cache topology, fixes a bug affecting the calculation of NUMA node costs and adds support for several more processor features, including RDRAND, LAHF/ SAHF, Prefetchw and Intel Speedstep.