Download Sysinternals Suite 2012-08-03

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 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 components of the Suite have been updated:

ZoomIt v4.31:
This release fixes a bug that caused ZoomIt to sometimes report an error when dismissing the options dialog.

AccessChk v5.1:
This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that shows the security settings and effective access on many object types, including registry keys and files, now reports Windows 8 claims and capabilities, shows the token of processes running as local system, lists security descriptor flags, and checks for remote interactive logon rights.

Autoruns v11.33:
This fixes a bug that caused the run as administrator elevation to fail if Autoruns was started from a path with spaces.

Core info v3.05:
Coreinfo, a tool that shows CPU features, cache sizes, and topology, now correctly shows hyperthreading support on AMD multicore systems and lists processor features on Windows XP.

Whois v1.1:
Whois is a command-line utility that looks up domain name registration information. This release fixes a bug that could cause an infinite loop and a command-line option, -v, that prints verbose information about domain registration referrals.