Sysinternals is a company name to conjure within the Windows community. Here, we profile a handful of tools that Windows users of all stripes are likely to find invaluable. Long known for their power and capability, they're both free and incredibly useful.
This update to Autoruns fixes a number of minor bugs, including one that could result in a crash when certain scheduled tasks are configured.The Sysinternals utilities for Windows offer some of the best diagnostic and troubleshooting tools around. Process Explorer v15.13: This Process Explorer release adds Background priority to the process context menu, which sets the CPU, memory and I/O priorities of a process to low, and includes a bug fix for restoring user-entered process comments. LiveKd v5.1: LiveKd, a utility for leveraging kernel debuggers to analyze live physical systems or Hyper-V virtual machines, now supports newer Intel processors that implement the XSAVE instruction. DebugView v4.78: This update to DebugView, a utility for capturing and logging user-mode and kernel-mode debug output messages, can now capture output generated by Metro applications on Windows 8. 
Coreinfo v3.04: Coreinfo, a tool that dumps information about a system’s processor topology and capabilities, adds a fix for a bug that sometimes misreported the presence of hyperthreading. Process Explorer v15.2, Testlimit v5.21, Pskill v1.14. This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that reports effective access and can dump access control lists, adds a cache to improve queries that enumerate multiple objects, and has the -s switch start container enumeration at the specified container when -d is specified. This release of Autoruns, a utility for viewing and managing autostart execution points (ASEPs), adds additional autostart entry points, has asynchronous file saving, fixes a bug parsing 32-bit paths on 64-bit Windows, shows the display name for drivers and services, and fixes a bug in offline Virus Total scanning. Process Monitor, a file system registry, process and network real-time monitor, now includes a /runtime switch for terminating monitoring after a specified amount of time, when in hexadecimal mode shows process tree process IDs in hexadecimal, and fixes a bug in automated boot log conversion. This update to Sysmon, a background monitor that records activity to the event log for use in security incident detection and forensics, adds monitoring of WMI filters and consumers, an autostart mechanism commonly used by malware, and fixes a bug in image load filtering.
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