Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2010-04-28

Microsoft released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite on Wednesday. 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:

LiveKd v4.0:
This major update to LiveKd, a utility that enables a local read-only kernel debugging of an on-line system, supports > 64 processors, includes numerous reliability enhancements, and new switch, -o, that generates a live kernel dump without having to launch a kernel debugger (thanks to Ken Johnson).

AccessChk v5.0:
A command-line tool for viewing the effective permissions on files, registry keys, services, processes, kernel objects, and more, adds a new option to dump un-interpreted access control lists, an option to ignore inherited ACEs, distinguishes between file and directory permissions, and includes several bug fixes.

PSTools Updates:
These PsTools utilities have been updated to fix several bugs, including one that sometimes prevented them from performing remote registry access – PsExec, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, and PsService.

LogonSessions v1.2:
LogonSessions is updated to work on 64-bit Windows for x64.

Process Explorer v12.03:
This update revs the driver name so that it is used even when the previous driver is already loaded.