New FindLinks 1.0 Utility Added to Windows Sysinternals

The latest update introduced to Windows Sysinternals brings to the table a new utility developed by Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich.

FindLinks 1.0 is available for download to IT professionals as of July 18th, 2011, free of charge, just as is the case for the entire Windows Sysinternals suite and all its components.

According to Microsoft, Findlinksis designed to list all the hard links for a specific item.

“FindLinks reports the file index and any hard links (alternate file paths on the same volume) that exist for the specified file. A file's data remains allocated so long as at it has at least one file name referencing it,” reads the official description of this new command line utility.

In addition to the introduction of FindLinks 1.0, the Windows Sysinternals update covers additional components such as Process Explorer and Listdlls, both of which have been refreshed.

“Process Explorer v15: Process Explorer v15 celebrates the release of the Sysinternals Administrator Reference and the upcoming 15th anniversary of Sysinternals. This major update to Process Explorer, a powerful tool for inspecting and controlling processes, threads, loaded DLLs, and more, adds GPU utilization and memory monitoring on Vista and higher. It also adds the ability to restart services, has a smaller memory footprint, and has visually cleaner performance graphs,” revealed Microsoft’s Karl Seng.

“Listdlls v3.1: Listdlls, a command-line utility for listing and searching for loaded DLLs, now dumps full file version information, including digital signatures. It also adds a new option designed to aid in malware hunting that filters output to include only unsigned DLLs.”

Concomitantly with the latest Windows Sysinternals update, Microsoft Press released the Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference book, Seng added. Mark Russinovich authored Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference together with Windows expert Aaron Margosis.

Windows Sysinternals is available for download here.