Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2010-03-25

Microsoft released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite on Thursday. This package is a collection of useful tools for managing systems and obtaining comprehensive information about the computer. In this way, all kinds of problems can be detected and solved. 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 65 different tools. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker, the following components in the Suite have been updated:

Process Explorer v12:
This Process Explorer release includes several significant new features, including the showing the web hosted in IE8 processes in the process tooltip, display of a svchost’s service host category in its tooltip, mapping of service names to threads on the threads tab and TCP/IP tabs of the process properties dialog on Windows Vista and higher (thanks to Windows Internals 5th Ed. coauthor Alex Ionescu), a new.NET assembly information tab in the process properties dialog (thanks to Pete Sheill), as well as other improvements and bug fixes .

VMmap v2.62:
This update fixes a bug in the calculation of page table entries for 32-bit processes running on 64-bit Windows.

DiskView v2.4:
DiskView now maps alternate stream clusters to owning file and stream name.

VMmap v2.61:
This fixes a minor bug in the calculation of the Unknown category total.