Download Sysinternals Suite 2008-12-10

Yesterday a new version of Sysinternals Suite was released. This package is a collection of useful tools that can be used to manage systems and obtain extensive information about the computer. The package can also be used for troubleshooting and diagnosis. Sysinternals Suite was written by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, initially for Sysinternals and now for Microsoft. Some examples are Process Explorer, Bginfo, contig and disk mon. In total it concerns a collection of no less than 63 different tools. Since the previous release, the following components have been updated:

Process Monitor v2.03:
This update to Process Monitor, a real-time file, registry, process and network monitor, adds the ability to import and export configuration settings, shows an icon in the operations column depicting the event class of the operation, and fixes a symbol configuration bug on Windows XP.

Autoruns v9.36:
Autoruns changes the Hide Microsoft Entries to only hide Windows entries, fixes a bug in the Find behavior, allows enabling and disabling entries using the space bar, and fixes a number of minor bugs.

Disk Usage v1.33:
Du adds a new option, -u, that has it exclude duplicate hard-linked files from its summary.

Process Explorer v11.31:
This update works around a bug in the latest Debugging Tools for Windows debug engine DLL and fixes a bug that could cause objects to show up as when Process Explorer was run without administrative rights.

Process Explorer v11.3:
This update to Process Explorer includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes, including a physical memory history graph, options to configure memory tray icons, asyncronous thread symbol resolution and security ID lookup, dynamic recognition of new volume drive letters, multiple character matching in the process view , and a smaller memory footprint.

Handle v3.42:
This Handle update fixes a rare bug that could cause it to reference the wrong handle during a name lookup.[break]