Download Sysinternals Suite 2014-01-21

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 is 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 two parts of the Suite have been updated:

Disk2vhd v2.01:
This update fixes a bug that could result in Disk2vhd crashing when converting to VHDX format and adds a command-line switch, -c, to have Disk2vhd use online copy instead of Volume Shadow Copy.

PsPing v2.0:
This is a major release to PsPing, a command-line utility that tests network bandwidth and latency. Version 2.0 adds UDP latency and bandwidth testing, support for timed tests, introduces custom histogram support, has an option for automatically opening Windows firewall ports during execution, and includes usability enhancements.