Download Sysinternals Suite 2008-08-08

Most system administrators and developers will be familiar with the work of Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. These men have written several useful utilities, initially for Sysinternals and now for Microsoft, which can be used to manage systems, obtain extensive information, troubleshoot and diagnose, among other things. Some examples are ProcessExplorer, BgInfo, Contig and Diskmon. In total, this is a collection of no less than 62 different utilities. For convenience, all individual programs are now offered in a collection zip under the name Sysinternals Suite. A new version was released last Friday and below you can find which components have been updated and what has changed:

ProcessMonitor v1.37:
Process Monitor, a system monitoring utility, now prevents you from inadvertently closing the filter dialog without saving edits and fixes a subtle race condition bug in the driver.

Handle v3.41:
Handle, a command-line tool for dumping information on open operating system handles, adds a new switch, -l, that dumps the sizes of pagefile-backed sections.

Process Explorer v11.21:
This update fixes a race condition bug in the Process Explorer device driver.

DebugView v4.75:
DebugView v4.75, a debug output monitoring utility for developers, fixes a bug that caused it to crash when capturing very long debug strings when not forcing carriage returns and the driver is now compatible with the Driver Verifier.

BgInfo v4.14:
This update makes the /silent switch more aggressive about supprossing dialog boxes.[break]