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Personally, I do not understand why Microsoft does not include them by default on Windows, they are just so useful.
Ah, good old days of using these to disable auto-run programs (with some of them viruses) on Windows XP and 7. And procexp! It's just the better task manager.
ProcessHacker ( https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ ) is also a worthy competitor to the Process Explorer.
When I worked as a Windows admin, the SysInternals tools were usually among the first things I installed on a new server or workstation. Personally, I do not understand why Microsoft does not include them by default on Windows, they are just so useful.
BTW another great diagnostics tools for Windows that I've come across is the Windows Performance Analyzer. One needed to install it separately before, not sure about that nowadays.
I‘m on Mac and Linux since 10 years now, but Sysinternals is the one thing that kept me on Windows for the 10 years before as a hacker. It was the first thing that landed on any new machine and let me learn and debug so many things about my computer. Microsoft did the right thing to assimilate them, the guy behind was top notch and I remember them fondly. Don‘t know how they evolved the last decade though.
I‘m on Mac and Linux since 10 years now, but Sysinternals is the one thing that kept me on Windows for the 10 years before as a hacker. It was the first thing that landed on any new machine and let me learn and debug so many things about my computer. Microsoft did the right thing to assimilate them, the guy behind was top notch and I remember them fondly. Don‘t know how they evolved the last decade though.
I‘m on Mac and Linux since 10 years now, but Sysinternals is the one thing that kept me on Windows for the 10 years before as a hacker. It was the first thing that landed on any new machine and let me learn and debug so many things about my computer. Microsoft did the right thing to assimilate them, the guy behind was top notch and I remember them fondly. Don‘t know how they evolved the last decade though.
Ditto here. And Russinovic was the one who revealed the infamous sony rootkit using these tools IIRC. Great memories of my time when I used Windows.
- sysinternals
- nirsoft
- UnxUtils
- powershell
- powertoys
Since yesteryears, my core tool set of choice has been: - sysinternals - nirsoft - UnxUtils - powershell - powertoys RE: powershell ... yup Russinovic gave us that too :)
[1] http://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ [2] https://github.com/sabrogden/Ditto/wiki
Since yesteryears, my core tool set of choice has been: - sysinternals - nirsoft - UnxUtils - powershell - powertoys RE: powershell ... yup Russinovic gave us that too :)
Is there an alternative to Everything [1](file search with immediate results) and Ditto [2](clipboard manager) among those you've listed ? I can't live without them on Windows to be honest. [1] http://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ [2] https://github.com/sabrogden/Ditto/wiki
Process Monitor (ProcMon) is one of the best diagnostic tools on the planet. I’ve used it to find why my machine booted slowly (encrypted font?!), what sort of network activity is holding up an app, why my USB device was sucking at wake-from-sleep, etc.
Process Explorer (ProcExp) is amazing at inspecting processes, eg to see their environment variables, see what process integrity levels look like, find out what process has what path open (eg since Windows won’t let you delete open files), etc. It’s a good complement to Task Manager.
TCPView is great for some weird cases. I used it once to find a bad web server as I could see my http requests were failing when the load balancer sent me to a specific IP. This impressed my web developer friends who weren’t used to seeing really accessible but low level diagnostic tools.
All the memory tools are great too.