Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2009-10-27

A new version of the Sysinternals Suite was released on Tuesday. 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 66 different tools. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker, the following components have been updated:

Disk2vhd v1.21:
The target volume size calculation is now based on the required size of the source volumes instead of the total size.

Disk2vhd v1.2:
This version fixes the space requirement calculation for the volume to which the VHD will be written.

Disk2vhd v1.1:
Disk2vhd now supports command-line options for automation and fixes a bug that could result in an “invalid user buffer” error during a conversion.

ZoomIt v4.1:
With this update, you can now easily switch between LiveZoom (supported on Vista and Windows 7) and drawing mode.

Core Info v2.0:
Coreinfo now supports IA64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems with more than 64 logical processors.

VMmap v2.4:
This release fixes a rare bug that could result in inaccurate summary statistics.

Autoruns v9.56:
This update enables Autoruns to view registry entries that have permissions only allowing the System account access and fixes a bug that caused some rundll32-hosted entries to not display correctly.