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The Free Windows Sysinternals Tools Go Live

And online

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

29th of May 2008, 15:43 GMT

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Windows Sysinternals is a collection of advanced system utilities accompanied by technical information, designed to streamline maintenance, management, diagnosis and troubleshooting tasks under the hood of the Windows operating system. The resources are offered as free downloads by Microsoft since 2006, when the Redmond giant acquired the project put together by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. As of May 28, Microsoft

has enabled alternative access to the utilities via Live Sysinternals, which is still in tests.

"We're excited to announce the beta of Sysinternals Live, a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool's Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as live.sysinternals.comtools or view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser," reads the announcement from Microsoft.

The new Sysinternals service has been in private beta testing until this week, but now it is open to the general public. Sysinternals Live is a basic HTML page designed exclusively for functionality. According to the Microsoft Windows Sysinternals Team, users are advised to turn to the standard Windows Sysinternals website if they are unfamiliar with the utilities.

The Sysinternals home page contains detailed information about each utility, unlike Live Sysinternals which assumes that the users simply want effortless access to the latest versions of the tools as they get updated. Along with the launch of Live Sysinternals, Microsoft also updates three tools, namely Process Explorer, AutoRuns, and Process Monitor.

Sysinternals Live "is a file share allowing access to all Sysinternals utilities. We have developed this to test an alternate distribution mechanism for our utilities. This will allow you to run these tools from any computer connected to the Internet without having to navigate to a webpage, download and extract the zip file," the Windows Sysinternals Team stated.

The entire Sysinternals Suite 1.0 Build 28.05.2008 is available for download here.

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Comment #1 by: Bob Britt on 05 Jun 2008, 05:11 GMT

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Read this and
a. take the feedback seriously and improve
b. continue to suck

I'm a command-line guy, and the sysinternals tools were great. Then MS atty's got a hold of them and they all have a Pop Up dialog with a freakin' license. I uses these tools for testing large (100 node systems) at my company (which is a MS premier partner).

I can't really go to every damn machine I want to run this tool on, and login in and click it once to accept the license. Well, I could, but that would defeat the purpose of using command line tools to automate it.

So... tell your attorney's that you are adding a switch called /AgreeToLicense=Yes so we can just add this to our command line and have the tool work. You can add a URL pointing to the Agreement in the command-line help.

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