Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2014-09-11

Microsoft has released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite, with the date of September 11 as the version number. 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 developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, initially for Sysinternals and since 2006 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 edition, the following parts of the Suite have been updated:

Handle v4:
Handle is a command-line utility that can show which processes have a handle to a file or other resource open, or show all open handles. Version 4 now works with standard-user rights, allowing standard users to identify the handles open by their processes.

ProcDump v7.01:
This release fixes several bugs, including one that affects the UI hang trigger, one that causes misnamed dump files for reflected dumps, and another that would cause .NET applications Procdump monitors for first-chance exceptions to terminate with Procdump.

Process Explorer v16.04:
This update fixes a bug in Virus Total file submission that could cause a crash, and now shows Windows Store package names on the Image page of the process properties dialog.

RegJump v1.02:
Regjump, a utility that opens Regedit to the registry key specified as a command-line argument, now works on 64-bit Windows.

Autoruns v12.03:
This update to Autoruns adds the registered HTML file extension, fixes a bug that could cause disabling of specific entry types to fail with a “path not found” error, and addresses another that could prevent the Jump-to-image function from opening the selected image on 64 bit Windows.