The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals

Barence writes "PC Pro contributing editor Jon Honeyball has written a nice feature on the latest treasures to be found on the Windows Sysinternals website. Among them are a tool for creating virtual hard disks from physical drives, a hard disk read-write monitoring tool, and a utility for putting ISO images onto flash drives. They're free, but they're effective."

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It's Sysinternals, slashdotters

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to be confused with the Sisinternals porn website.

free BUT effective

[Anonymous Coward]

> They're free, but they're effective.

What an unusual combination of attributes!

Re:pstools best by far

[Anonymous Coward]

yay, windows! where you have to download third-party "sysinternals" tools to get the most basic functionality that any stock Unix provides out of the box. woohoo for progress! let's celebrate this with much praise and ado.

Re:It's all stuff that ships with Linux

[Lunix Nutcase]

Why? Most people won't use them. Then what will happen is you same people would be the whining about how Microsoft is "bloating" Windows with all sorts of applications.

Re:It's all stuff that ships with Linux

[houstonbofh]

Yeah. And an image editor - wait, no, 3 image editors a few which work only on the command line. And five word processors. Ten calculators. A utility to write random data to the disk.

You want MS Word to come for free? That is asking a lot...

Re:windowssucks tag?

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a difference between useful utility programs and bloat. I am not surprised it took a Windows user to conflate them, though.

Re:Duh

[bertok]

There's a reason MS bought the company and hired Mark, he consistently puts out the most useful tools for in the trenches Windows diagnostics. Heck MS's PSS would routinely have you use his tools even before the purchase because nothing they put out internally was nearly as useful.

And the very first thing they did, within mere days of the acquisition, is they took his ultra-efficient, elegant little tools and put a 200KB EULA popup into every one of them.

A GUI popup.

Even into the command line tools.

I threw up in my mouth a little when I saw that.

Re:Duh

[Helen O'Boyle]

Parent wrote the $64,000 question: Why would the exact same list of services running under svchost.exe use different amounts of memory when reported by two different versions of Process Explorer?

Plausible answer: because one of the versions of Process Explorer has a bug, and the other either does not, or has a different bug.