The news that Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell sold their company Sysinternals to Microsoft hit many IT professionals like a bomb. But, as was the case previously, the professional analysis tools developed by Sysinternals are available as free downloads, now under the Microsoft name. And it gets better: Microsoft has completely revised the tools and even developed new ones. So, for example, Process Monitor combines the functions of the previous tools Filemon and Regmon. The Sysinternals tools are a must for every system and network administrator who wants to search in the depths of the Windows operating system for causes of and solutions to errors and other problems.
Category: Basics, Issues
Issue: 2012 Issue 2 February/March
Operating Systems: XP, Vista, 7
Article Reference: F88