Download Sysinternals Suite 2013-08-01

Microsoft has released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite. 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 70 different tools. By the way, the latest versions of the individual programs can also be here are being found. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker, the following parts of the Suite have been updated:

Autoruns v11.70:
This release of Autoruns, a powerful utility for scanning and disabling autostart code, adds a new option to have it show only per-user locations, something that is useful when analyzing the autostarts of different accounts than the one that Autoruns is running under.

Bginfo v4.20:
BgInfo, a utility that creates custom desktop backgrounds that display system information, now correctly reports version information for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

Disk2vhd v1.64:
This update to Disk2Vhd, a tool for converting physical system disks to VHDs for use by virtual machines, now supports disk sizes of up to 2 TB.

Process Explorer v15.40:
Process Explorer, a Task Manager replacement, now shows WMI providers hosted in Wmiprvse processes (thanks to Mohamed Elghetany for contributions); includes an option that configures it to automatically run when you logon; and introduces a process view column that shows process DPI awareness support on Windows 8.1 systems.

Autoruns v11.62:
This release fixes a bug in version 11.61’s jump-to-image functionality.