Download Sysinternals Suite 2012-06-06

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 being developed 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 68 different tools. By the way, the latest versions of the individual programs can also be here are being found. In this release, the following three components of the Suite have been updated:

Process Explorer v15.2:
This major update to Process Explorer, a Task Manager replacement, merges Autoruns functionality by adding a new Autostart Location column and property to the process and DLL views that indicates where an image is configured to automatically start or load. It also adds .NET stack walking support to the thread stack dialog, adds a process timeline column that graphically depicts a process’s lifetime relative other processes, and uses the Windows 8 private ETW logger which enables better coexistence with other ETW-based tools.

Test Limit v5.21:
This update clarifies some of the output messages.

PSkill v1.14:
This release to PsKill, a command-line tool for terminating processes, includes some minor bug fixes.

Autoruns v11.31:
This fixes a bug that caused Autoruns to not automatically refresh when relaunched from the “Run as Administrator” menu option.

DebugView 4.79:
This update fixes an incompatibility with Windows XP 32-bit that was introduced in the v4.78 release.