Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2009-10-01

A new version of the Sysinternals Suite was released on Thursday. This package is a collection of useful tools that can be used to manage systems and obtain extensive information about the computer. The package can also be used for troubleshooting and diagnosis. Sysinternals Suite was written by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, initially for Sysinternals and now for Microsoft. Some examples are Process Explorer, Bginfo, contig and disk mon. In total it concerns a collection of no less than 65 different tools. Since the previous release, the following components have been updated:

LiveKd v3.1:
This update to LiveKd, a tool that enables you to perform local kernel debugging using the Windbg tool, adds support for systems with more than 4GB of RAM and now works on x64 systems even when they aren’t booted in debugging mode.

BgInfo v4.16:

Bginfo now correctly reports Windows Server 2008 R2.

ProcDump v1.6:
This minor update sets the thread context in a dump file to the thread that trips the CPU threshold so that it’s stack can be viewed simply by entering a stack dump command.

Autoruns v9.55:
A bug that prevented some 64-bit entries from being disabled is addressed in this update.