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Re: Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

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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.

So that's why RootkitRevealer does not work with newer versions of Windows.

My understanding is that RootkitRevealer is no longer being maintained since it was being used by malware authors to evade detections. The age old cat and mouse game.

Re: Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

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Since yesteryears, my core tool set of choice has been: - sysinternals - nirsoft - UnxUtils - powershell - powertoys RE: powershell ... yup Russinovic gave us that too :)

> RE: powershell ... yup Russinovic gave us that too :)

Nope, that was Jeffrey Snover.

Re: Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

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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

I use clipdiary instead of Ditto and share the Db across using a filesync for a eternal and shared clipboard history.

The main site is http://softvoile.com/

Clipdiary is https://clipdiary.com

Though my db syncing doesn't always work like a charm, it still gets the job done. Use the freeware version which should be super sufficient for most of the users.

Checkout other tools which are good such as Flashnote.

Re: Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

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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

> Is there an alternative to Everything

I use AstroGrep but it scans the drive, rather than indexing it (find vs. locate)

Re: Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

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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

Listary is a good ui for full text search, and integrates with the default file dialogs nicely too.

Re: Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

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ProcessHacker ( https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ ) is also a worthy competitor to the Process Explorer.

I second that, because ProcessHacker was the only tool I found to let me set the I/O priority of a process.

Thirded, because at some point, ProcessExplorer started recording the resource usage history of a process (CPU usage, memory, I/O) only the moment you explicitly opened that particular process's properties window for the first time.

Because the last version of ProcessExplorer that didn't exhibit that behaviour no longer works on current Windows versions (certainly not 10, and I'm no longer sure whether 7 wasn't already problematic, too), ProcessHacker instead it is then.

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