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Homepage: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals

The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich to host his advanced system utilities and technical information. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications.

Sysinternals Live

Sysinternals Live is a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool's Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as live.sysinternals.com/<toolname> or \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname>.

You can view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at https://live.sysinternals.com/.

Sysinternals Utilities Index

Sysinternals Suite
The entire set of Sysinternals Utilities rolled up into a single download.

Sysinternals Suite for Nano Server
Sysinternals Utilities for Nano Server in a single download.

AccessChk
AccessChk is a command-line tool for viewing the effective permissions on files, registry keys, services, processes, kernel objects, and more.

AccessEnum
This simple yet powerful security tool shows you who has what access to directories, files and Registry keys on your systems. Use it to find holes in your permissions.

AdExplorer
Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.

AdInsight
An LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications.

AdRestore
Undelete Server 2003 Active Directory objects.

Autologon
Bypass password screen during logon.

Autoruns
See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login. Autoruns also shows you the full list of Registry and file locations where applications can configure auto-start settings.

BgInfo
This fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system including IP addresses, computer name, network adapters, and more.

BlueScreen
This screen saver not only accurately simulates Blue Screens, but simulated reboots as well (complete with CHKDSK), and works on Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003 and Windows 95 and 98.

CacheSet
CacheSet is a program that allows you to control the Cache Manager's working set size using functions provided by NT. It's compatible with all versions of NT.

ClockRes
View the resolution of the system clock, which is also the maximum timer resolution.

Contig
Wish you could quickly defragment your frequently used files? Use Contig to optimize individual files, or to create new files that are contiguous.

Coreinfo
Coreinfo is a new command-line utility that shows you the mapping between logical processors and the physical processor, NUMA node, and socket on which they reside, as well as the cache’s assigned to each logical processor.

Ctrl2cap
This is a kernel-mode driver that demonstrates keyboard input filtering just above the keyboard class driver in order to turn caps-locks into control keys. Filtering at this level allows conversion and hiding of keys before NT even "sees" them. Ctrl2cap also shows how to use NtDisplayString() to print messages to the initialization blue-screen.

DebugView
Another first from Sysinternals: This program intercepts calls made to DbgPrint by device drivers and OutputDebugString made by Win32 programs. It allows for viewing and recording of debug session output on your local machine or across the Internet without an active debugger.

Desktops
This new utility enables you to create up to four virtual desktops and to use a tray interface or hotkeys to preview what’s on each desktop and easily switch between them.

Disk2vhd
Disk2vhd simplifies the migration of physical systems into virtual machines (p2v.md).

DiskExt
Display volume disk-mappings.

Diskmon
This utility captures all hard disk activity or acts like a software disk activity light in your system tray.

DiskView
Graphical disk sector utility.

Disk Usage (DU.md)
View disk usage by directory.

EFSDump
View information for encrypted files.

FindLinks
FindLinks reports the file index and any hard links (alternate file paths on the same volume.md) that exist for the specified file. A file's data remains allocated so long as at it has at least one file name referencing it.

Handle
This handy command-line utility will show you what files are open by which processes, and much more.

Hex2dec
Convert hex numbers to decimal and vice versa.

Junction
Create Win2K NTFS symbolic links.

LDMDump
Dump the contents of the Logical Disk Manager's on-disk database, which describes the partitioning of Windows 2000 Dynamic disks.

ListDLLs
List all the DLLs that are currently loaded, including where they are loaded and their version numbers.

LiveKd
Use Microsoft kernel debuggers to examine a live system.

LoadOrder
See the order in which devices are loaded on your WinNT/2K system.

LogonSessions
List the active logon sessions on a system.

MoveFile
Allows you to schedule move and delete commands for the next reboot.

NotMyFault
Notmyfault is a tool that you can use to crash, hang, and cause kernel memory leaks on your Windows system.

NTFSInfo
Use NTFSInfo to see detailed information about NTFS volumes, including the size and location of the Master File Table (MFT) and MFT-zone, as well as the sizes of the NTFS meta-data files.

PendMoves
Enumerate the list of file rename and delete commands that will be executed the next boot.

PipeList
Displays the named pipes on your system, including the number of maximum instances and active instances for each pipe.

PortMon
Monitor serial and parallel port activity with this advanced monitoring tool. It knows about all standard serial and parallel IOCTLs and even shows you a portion of the data being sent and received. Version 3.x has powerful new UI enhancements and advanced filtering capabilities.

ProcDump
This command-line utility is aimed at capturing process dumps of otherwise difficult to isolate and reproduce CPU spikes. It also serves as a general process dump creation utility and can also monitor and generate process dumps when a process has a hung window or unhandled exception.

Process Explorer
Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.

Process Monitor
Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.

PsExec
Execute processes on remote systems.

PsFile
See what files are opened remotely.

PsGetSid
Displays the SID of a computer or a user.

PsInfo
Obtain information about a system.

PsKill
Terminate local or remote processes.

PsPing
Measure network performance.

PsList
Show information about processes and threads.

PsLoggedOn
Show users logged on to a system.

PsLogList
Dump event log records.

PsPasswd
Changes account passwords.

PsService
View and control services.

PsShutdown
Shuts down and optionally reboots a computer.

PsSuspend
Suspend and resume processes.

PsTools
The PsTools suite includes command-line utilities for listing the processes running on local or remote computers, running processes remotely, rebooting computers, dumping event logs, and more.

RAMMap
An advanced physical memory usage analysis utility that presents usage information in different ways on its several different tabs.

RegDelNull
Scan for and delete Registry keys that contain embedded null-characters that are otherwise undeleteable by standard Registry-editing tools.

Registry Usage (RU.md)
View the registry space usage for the specified registry key.

RegJump
Jump to the registry path you specify in Regedit.

SDelete
Securely overwrite your sensitive files and cleanse your free space of previously deleted files using this DoD-compliant secure delete program.

ShareEnum
Scan file shares on your network and view their security settings to close security holes.

ShellRunas
Launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry.

Sigcheck
Dump file version information and verify that images on your system are digitally signed.

Streams
Reveal NTFS alternate streams.

Strings
Search for ANSI and UNICODE strings in binary images.

Sync
Flush cached data to disk.

Sysmon
Monitors and reports key system activity via the Windows event log.

TCPView
Active socket command-line viewer.

VMMap
VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility.

VolumeId
Set Volume ID of FAT or NTFS drives.

Whois
See who owns an Internet address.

WinObj
The ultimate Object Manager namespace viewer is here.

ZoomIt
Presentation utility for zooming and drawing on the screen.