Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2009-08-12

A new version of Sysinternals Suite was released on Wednesday. The Sysinternals Suite is a collection of useful tools for managing Windows computers. The software can be used, among other things, for troubleshooting and for collecting information. The various tools were written by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, initially for Sysinternals, but both gentlemen have been working for Microsoft for a while. Examples of programs included in the package are Process Explorer, Bginfo, contig and disk mon. In total, the collection contains no less than 67 tools. This time, the following three programs have been updated:

Autoruns v9.53:
This update fixes a bug that could cause the file open and save dialogs to not work on 64-bit Windows.

ProcDump v1.3:
This fixes a bug that could result in Procdump reporting negative CPU usage.

Process Monitor v2.6:
Version 2.6 no longer requires the symbol engine to be configured on systems on which a trace is collected (only on the viewing system) and fixes a bug that could cause the desktop to stop updating when thread profiling is enabled on Windows 7.