Download Sysinternals Suite 2015-07-20

Microsoft has released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite, with the date as the version number. 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 since 2006 for Microsoft. Some examples are Process Explorer, Bginfo, contig and disk mon. In total it concerns a collection of 70 different tools. By the way, the latest versions of the individual programs can also be here are being found. Since the previous edition, the following parts of the Suite have been updated:

Sysmon v3.1
This update to Sysmon, a background service that logs security-relevant process and network activity to the Windows event log, adds information about the thread initialization function for CreateRemoteThread events, including the DLL and function name and address. It also changes the format of timestamps to allow for simple string sorting and fixes several bugs.

LogonSessions v1.3
LogonSessions, a command-line utility that reports information about Windows authentication sessions including the user, authenticating server, time a session was created, and processes running in a session, now includes options for emitting CSV and tab-delimited output for easy import into Excel and other applications.

VMmap v3.21
This update to VMMap, an advanced utility that shows a detailed breakdown of a process’s virtual and physical memory usage, fixes a bug where unused memory was reported as committed, and another that omitted call-tree summary statistics.