Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2010-03-03

Microsoft released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite on Wednesday. This package is a collection of useful tools that can be used to manage systems and obtain extensive 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 is a collection of 65 different tools. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker, the following components in the Suite have been updated:

AdExplorer v1.3:
This update to AdExplorer, an Active Directory editor, has major node expansion performance improvements and a number of minor bug fixes.

VMmap v2.6:
VMMap, a powerful process virtual and physical memory analysis tool, now shows both graphical and numeric breakdowns of private virtual memory, as well as heap configuration flags.

Disk2vhd v1.5:
Disk2Vhd v1.5 works with Hyper-V SCSI direct-attached volumes and reports an error when a snapshot includes offline volumes.

LiveKd v3.14:
This version of LiveKd has better detection of the Debugging Tools package installation and launches the debugger in a mode that skips the unnecessary root-cause analysis of the virtual dump file.

Sign check v1.66:
This update to Sigcheck, a file version and signature checking utility, fixes a bug in the certificate revocation check logic.

ProcDump v1.72:
This update changes the dump file date and time format to be ISO compliant and fixes a bug that prevented ProcDump from exiting when the process termination condition was active.

Desktop v1.02:
v1.02 works around another issue that could prevent Alt+Tab from working on alternate desktops on 64-bit Windows 7 systems.

Sign check v1.65:
Now includes all certificate errors in the unsigned image filter, not just images that have no code signing certificate.

DiskView v2.3:
Includes a native 64-bit version that allows it to handle multi-terabyte disks when run on 64-bit Windows.