Tag: SYSINTERNALS

When I wrote about Eraser, commenter jxejiehyzoli (great nick, by the way) noted that there's also SDelete, which is a simple command-line tool by Sysinternals. Since I love everything that Sysinternals does (long live Autoruns!), I decided I'd try the massive 46KB download. It's a single file that you can place anywhere on your system or on a USB drive. If you place it in your path (for example, ...

Process Explorer is one of the staples of the hard-core Windows geek. It's a Task Manager replacement which does so much more; some would say it does too much. It's produced by Microsoft-acquired Sysinternals, which have been making some of the best in-depth system utilities for Windows even before Microsoft bought them out (years ago). My favorite feature in the new update is that I can now ...

NirSoft has developed a truckload of useful little applications over the years, many of which you're probably carting around on a USB flash drive if you do any admin work. Now, thanks to the availability of the NirLauncher beta, Nir's applications are easier to download and use than ever. Included with the NirLauncher executable are more than 100 applications including password viewers for ...

No, Windows won't ever compete with Linux on price. However, even though Microsoft isn't giving away their RTM operating systems for free, they do offer a lot of great software and services at no charge. Here are my six favorites -- feel free to share yours with us in the comments! 1. Windows Live Writer - If you don't blog, Live Writer probably isn't that useful to you. If you do, though, it's ...

SysInternals and Nirsoft make a lot of really, really useful applications, but they're all standalone. Keeping them organized for easy access can get to be a bit of a pain, and that's when Windows System Control Center comes to the rescue. WSCC is a free, portable application designed to centralize and simplify access to these utilities. Think of it as the Swiss Army shell for your "knife ...

The MS Sysinternals crew has created a number of really useful tools, like the previously mentioned Desktops, TCPView, and Process Explorer. In May, Microsoft put all the downloads together in one place, at live.sysinternals.com. Fresh off the three-day weekend, they decided to simplify the download process even further by creating a single 8mb file containing their popular troubleshooting ...

A few years ago Microsoft bought a company called Sysinternals that makes some of the most useful free utilities for Windows. This week the company launched Sysinternals Live, a single webpage with a huge list of Sysinternals utilities. The site isn't much to look at, but it's a one-stop shop for the latest version of any Sysinternals utilty. If you want to make sure you're always using the most ...

If you were a big fan of SysInternals before Microsoft went and bought them, you might be interested in this extremely unofficial list of their utilities from their pre-Microsoft days. Now for the warnings: we have not downloaded or tried any of these utilities, and do not recommend that you do so. Of course downloading files from an unofficial source is unwise for all sorts of security-related ...

It's old news that Sysinternals was bought by Microsoft, swallowing up all of the wonderful utilities they developed. That being said, there is still some useful stuff that was done by SysInternals that we haven't previously covered, so I thought I'd bring one that was useful to me this week to your attention. I had a problem with a piece of client / server software that was occurring due to too ...

We all knew this day was coming. Back in July we reported that Microsoft had acquired Winternals Software, its free Windows utility site Sysinternals, and its founder Mark Russinovich. After a longer wait than I'd have expected, Microsoft has relaunched the site in its own image as Windows Sysinternals. I'm not sure if the entire Sysinternals library has made the transition to the new site, but it ...

Did you know the Windows Task Manager doesn't show you the whole picture of system processes running on your machine? Of course you did, but finding an app that will give you this info on a silver platter and leave a mint on your pillow is a different story. That is presumably why you're smart enough to read Download Squad. Its because we bring you the good stuff to so this kind of thing, process ...

Today Microsoft announced that it has acquired Winternals Software, maker of data recovery and protections software, as well as free Windows utility site Sysinternals. The acquisition will include Mark Russinovich, Winternals and Sysinternals founder, who will come to Microsoft as a Technical Fellow, Microsoft's title for "someone whose technical vision, expertise, and world-class leadership is ...