Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2010-01-14

Microsoft has released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite. This package is a collection of useful tools for managing systems and collecting comprehensive information about the computer. All kinds of problems can be detected and solved with this. The individual tools are being developed 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 64 different tools. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker, the following components in the Suite have been updated:

ProcDump v1.71:
This fixed a bug in the exception handling dump condition logic.

ProcDump v1.7:
This update to ProcDump, a command-line utility that will generate memory dumps of processes based on various selectable criteria, now supports periodic timed dumps as well as dumps based on virtual memory thresholds.

AccessChk v4.24:
AccessChk, a utility that shows effective security permissions for files, registry keys, services, and more, now supports process tokens.

Sign check v1.64:
This release adds reporting for more signature verification errors.

Desktop v1.01:
This fixes a bug that prevented Desktops from launching Explorer on secondary desktops when run on 64-bit Windows 7.

LiveKd v3.13:
LiveKd works around a bug in Windbg’s analysis engine that could cause Windbg to hang for several minutes when launched from Livekd.