Microsoft Releases SysInternals Suite
The SysInternals utilities are still free and now even packaged up into a single download complete with help files!
Yea!
Get it here.
If you use Windows and consider yourself a "higher-level" user or hacker or geek (or would like to be), this is something you should look into. The guys at SysInternals have been producing some great utilities for Windows for years. A lot of these a diagnostic applications for troubleshooting or little tools that many people think should have been included in the operating system originally. One of the best parts about SysInternals is that these utilities were free for anyone to download and use.
A few months ago, Microsoft purchased SysInternals and the geek community was immediately afraid that these tools would no longer be available (or at least not free). However, Microsoft has apparently just packaged up the tools into a single free download and even included Help files making using the SysInternals tools even easier to use and more accessible to more Windows users.
The original SysInternals site (www.sysinternals.com) now redirects to a Microsoft page about the utilities. I started using their utilities several years ago, but then got re-introduced to them by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte in some Security Now! netcasts a few months ago.
I originally learned about this story from tweakguides.com, a site for computer enthusiasts.
