In parallel with the evolution of the Windows operating system from Windows Vista to Windows 7, the ecosystem of hardware products and software solutions orbiting around the operating system is also moving forward. And Microsoft's own products make no exception to this rule. In fact, one of the most popular suites of Windows tools has been tailored to Windows 7, following the availability of the public Beta milestone of the next iteration of the Windows client, namely Build 7000. According to the Redmond company, Windows Sysinternals, after the latest update suffered by the suite, now integrate seamlessly with Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 and later development milestones, namely the builds belonging to the Release Candidate branch. 

“Windows Sysinternals utilities help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. A variety of file and disk, security, networking, system information, process discovery and miscellaneous utilities are available; utilities that work on Windows Vista have been updated for use on Windows 7 beta,” Microsoft stated.

Essentially, what Microsoft is saying is that if a Windows Sysinternals component worked with Windows Vista, it will also work with Windows 7 Beta. The company debuted Beta downloads of Win 7 on January 10, 2009, and completely discontinued serving the bits on February 12. Windows 7 has long since moved past the Beta milestone toward the RC milestone, and is up to Build 7032.

At the start of February, three specific Windows Sysinternals tools were updated, including: “Process Explorer v11.33 - this update fixes a bug where the history graph tooltips could display the wrong data point and reduces the memory footprint of the structures that store graph history. Autoruns v9.39 - this Autoruns update fixes a couple of minor bugs and adds a new Windows 7 location. ZoomIt v3.02 - this release addresses a bug that could cause Zoomit to refuse to enter drawing mode once zoomed,” a member of the Windows Sysinternals team said.

The Windows Sysinternals Suite is available for download here.