AccessChk v5.1: This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that shows the security settings and effective access on many object types, including registry keys and files, now reports Windows 8 claims and capabilities, shows the token of processes running as local system, lists security descriptor flags, and checks for remote interactive logon rights.

Autoruns v11.33: This fixes a bug that caused the run as administrator elevation to fail if Autoruns was started from a path with spaces.

Coreinfo v3.05: Coreinfo, a tool that shows CPU features, cache sizes, and topology, now correctly shows hyperthreading support on AMD multicore systems and lists processor features on Windows XP.

Whois v1.1: Whois is a command-line utility that looks up domain name registration information. This release fixes a bug that could cause an infinite loop and a command-line option, -v, that prints verbose information about domain registration referrals.

Autoruns v11.34: This release of Autoruns fixes a bug that caused it to not show some Internet Explorer extensions.

ProcDump v5.0: Procdump is an advanced utility for capturing process memory dumps based on a variety of triggers including CPU usage, memory usage, performance counter values, and exceptions. Version 5.0 is a major upgrade that adds the ability to configure exception filters based on managed and native exception types, extends support to Windows 8 modern applications, and integrates with Process Monitor’s debug output logging.

Sigcheck v1.8: This update to Sigcheck, a command-line file version and digital signature verification utility, shows detailed certificate information such as certificate usage, validity dates, and thumbprints, and also shows a file’s counter-signing chain if it has one.

VMMap v3.11: VMMap, a utility that shows detailed information about a process’ virtual and physical memory usage, now reports commit usage instead of working set in its timeline view and fixes a bug that enables export of captures of 32-bit processes.

PsPing v1.0: PsPing is a new Sysinternals PsTools command-line utility for measuring network performance. In addition to standard ICMP ping functionality, it can report the latency of connecting to TCP ports, the latency of TCP round-trip communication between systems, and the TCP bandwidth available to a connection between systems. Besides obtaining min, max, and average values in 0.01ms resolution, you can also use PsPing to generate histograms of the results that are easy to import into spreadsheets.

DebugView v4.8: This release of DebugView, a debug output monitoring utility, addresses a bug that could cause DebugView to blue screen on “checked build” (debug) versions of Windows.

Process Explorer v15.23: This update to Process Explorer adds the ability to view the process token of protected processes, fixes a bug that causes a crash when viewing thread stacks on Windows XP, and fixes a bug that causes a crash when running on Windows PE.

Sigcheck v1.81: This update to Sigcheck, a command-line utility for analyzing the digital signatures of executable images, fixes a bug that could cause it to crash when reporting the signing status of images that have invalid signatures.

Coreinfo v3.1: This update to Coreinfo, a command line utility that reports detailed information about a system’s processor topology, CPU features, and cache topology, fixes a bug affecting the calculation of NUMA node costs and adds support for several more processor features, including RDRAND, LAHF/SAHF, Prefetchw and Intel Speedstep.

Desktops v2.0: Desktops, a virtual desktop utility for Windows that lets you create up to three additional workspaces, is now compatible with Windows 8, properly supporting Winkey hotkey sequences (like Winkey+R to bring up the Run dialog) on alternate desktops and switching back to the primary desktop’s start screen when you hit Winkey.

Livekd v5.3: LiveKd, a command-line utility that enables you to use the Windows kernel debuggers to examine live systems as well as virtual machines, now support Windows 8.

PsPasswd v1.23: PsPasswd, a Pstools utility for remoting changing local machine passwords, now includes support for changing domain account passwords.

Testlimit v5.22: This release of TestLimit, an educational tool for testing the way Windows handles exhaustion of various resource types such as system commit, fixes an output formatting bug that could have it report KB instead of MB.

Whois v1.11: Whois v1.11, a tool for looking up domain name registration information, includes bug fixes that could cause it to crash if provided with malformed domain name input strings.

AdExplorer v1.44: This release fixes a bug that caused AdExplorer to crash when it encountered corrupted extended rights schemas.

Contig v1.7: Contig is a command-line file defragmentation and fragmentation analysis utility. v1.7 has more detailed fragmentation analysis reporting, fixes a bug that enables creation of contiguous files larger than 8GB, and adds support for setting the valid data length on files to avoid zero-fill overhead.

Coreinfo v3.2: Coreinfo, a command-line utility that dumps processor topology and feature support, now reports the presence of many additional features, including SMAP, RDSEED, BMI1, ADX, HLE, RTM, and INVPCID.

Procdump v5.1: This major update to Procdump, a command-line utility for creating process crash dump files based on triggers or on-demand, adds support for Silverlight applications and the ability to register Procdump as the just-in-time (JIT) debugger for more advanced scenarios.

DebugView v4.81: Version 4.81 of DebugView, a utility that logs user and kernel-mode debug output messages, fixes a bug that could cause it on some executions to fail to capture debug output and enter a CPU-bound loop.

ProcDump v5.11: This release of ProcDump fixes a bug introduced in version 5.1 that prevented it from working on 32-bit Windows XP.

ZoomIt v4.4: This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation utility, includes smoother zooming behavior, adds the ability to specify the initial zoom level, and maintains the window focus when initiating live zooming.

Autoruns v11.4: Autoruns v11.4 adds additional startup locations, fixes several bugs related to image path parsing, adds better support for browsing folders on WinPE, and fixes a Wow64 redirection bug.

Procdump v5.12: This Procdump update fixes a bug introduced in v5.11 where it doesn’t save information required by the !runaway debugger command.

SDelete v1.61: SDelete v1.61 fixes drive letter syntax consistency in its parsing of command line arguments.

What's New (January 24, 2013)

Procdump v5.13
This update to Procdump, a command-line utility that generates on-demand and trigger-based process crash dump files, now supports triggers for when process CPU usage, memory consumption or arbitrary performance counters fall below a specified value.
Sigcheck v1.9
Sigcheck, a command-line file-version and signature verification tool, now reports certificate publisher names, capitalizes hash values, and fixes a certificate chain validation bug.

Pendmoves v1.2: This update to Pendmoves adds support for 64-bit directories.

Process Explorer v15.3: This major Process Explorer release includes heat-map display for process CPU, private bytes, working set and GPU columns, sortable security groups in the process properties security page, and tooltip reporting of tasks executing in Windows 8 Taskhostex processes. It also creates dump files that match the bitness of the target process and works around a bug introduced in Windows 8 disk counter reporting.

Sigcheck v1.91: This update to Sigcheck prints the link time for executable files instead of the file last-modified time, and fixes a bug introduced in 1.9 where the –q switch didn’t suppress the print out of the banner.

Zoomit v4.42: Zoomit now includes an option to suppress zoom-in and zoom-out animation to better support remote RDP sessions and fixes a bug that caused static zoom to snap to the top and left side of the screen in some cases.

Autoruns v11.5: This update to Autoruns, a utility for managing autostarting applications and components, now reports the image timestamp of executables and the last-modified timestamp of other file types and autostart locations to help with forensic analysis. The jump-to-entry feature is also improved to navigate directly to files rather than their parent directory.

Disk Usage (Du) v1.5: Du, a command-line utility for reporting the disk space consumed by directories and their files, has expanded CSV output that includes file and directory counts, as well as an option for tab-delimiting, which is a format more convenient for import into Excel than comma-delimited.

ProcDump v5.14: This release of Procdump, a command-line utility that enables the capture of process dumps based on numerous trigger types including on-demand, doesn’t report process exceptions unless the exception trigger is specified.

Process Monitor v3.04: Procmon, a power system activity monitor, now includes support for new Windows 8 file information query types and fixes a bug in the tooltip handling.

Registry Usage (RU) v1.0: Ru (Registry Usage) is a new command-line utility that reports the size, value and subkey counts of registry keys. Like its Sysinternals Du (Disk Usage) counterpart, Ru can help you find the keys that contribute to registry bloat.

AccessChk v5.11: AccessChk, a command line utility for
dumping the effective permissions and security descriptors for files, registry
keys, processes, tokens, object manager objects, now prefixes Windows 8
application container SIDs with the word “Package”, and includes minor several
bug fixes.

Procdump v6.0: Procdump is an advanced utility for
capturing process memory dumps based on a variety of triggers including CPU
usage, memory usage, performance counter values, and exceptions. Version 6.0 is
a major upgrade that adds the ability to specify multiple filters, attach to a
process by service name, and display/filter on the message text of a CLR or
JScript exception.

RAMMap v1.22: RAMMap is a graphic utility that shows
the breakdown of physical memory usage across different dimensions. This
release fixes a bug that could cause a crash when accessing the cached files
page when a cached file’s name exceeded a certain length.

Strings v2.51: This update to Strings, a command-line
utility that prints a file’s embedded Unicode and ASCII strings, fixes a signed
file offset printing bug.

Autoruns v11.6: Autoruns is a utility for enumerating and disabling executables and DLLs configured to activate in dozens of autostart registration points. This update fixes some minor bugs and adds Authenticode SHA1 and SHA256 hash reporting to Autorunsc output.

Sigcheck v1.92: Sigcheck is a command-line utility for reporting image version and signature information. With this update, it now includes support for Authenticode SHA256 hashes, which is the same hash type used to identify images by AppLocker.

Process Explorer v15.31: Process Explorer is a powerful process management utility. This update fixes a bug with copying text from the process properties dialog and adds an option to disable the heatmap display in the process view.

Process Monitor v3.05: Process Monitor is a powerful file, registry, process, thread and network monitoring tool. This update adds a context-menu entry that opens the filter edit dialog with contents prepopulated with the specified row and column value.

Autoruns v11.61: Autoruns is a utility for managing autostarting applications, DLLs and services. This update adds more autostart locations, fixes a bug that could cause a crash when Autorunsc is directed to calculate file hashes, and fixes a bug in Autoruns’ jump-to-image functionality on 64-bit Windows.

Strings v2.52: This release fixes a bug that prevented the previous one from running on Windows XP.

Zoomit v4.5: Zoomit is a screen zooming and annotation tool for technical presentations. This release introduces better support for zooming in on Windows 8 Windows Store applications.

Autoruns v11.70: This release of Autoruns, a powerful utility for scanning and disabling autostart code, adds a new option to have it show only per-user locations, something that is useful when analyzing the autostarts of different accounts than the one that Autoruns is running under.

Bginfo v4.20: BgInfo, a utility that creates custom desktop backgrounds that display system information, now correctly reports version information for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

Disk2vhd v1.64: This update to Disk2Vhd, a tool for converting physical system disks to VHDs for use by virtual machines, now supports disk sizes of up to 2 TB.

Process Explorer v15.40: Process Explorer, a Task Manager replacement, now shows WMI providers hosted in Wmiprvse processes (thanks to Mohamed Elghetany for contributions); includes an option that configures it to automatically run when you logon; and introduces a process view column that shows process DPI awareness support on Windows 8.1 systems.

PsExec v2.0: PsExec, a popular utility for executing processes on remote systems, introduces a new option, -r, that specifies the name PsExec assigns to its remote service. This can improve performance when multiple users are interacting concurrently with a system, since each will have a dedicated PsExec service.

RAMMap v1.3: RAMMap, a graphical utility that provides a comprehensive breakdown of physical memory usage by usage type and process, is updated to work on Windows 8.1.

Sigcheck v2.0: This major update to Sigcheck, a command-line file version and digital signature verification utility, adds integration with the VirusTotal antivirus scanner aggregation service. Sigcheck can now check the status of a file against over 40 antivirus engines and launch the associated online VirusTotal report, and even upload files for scanning that have not already been scanned by VirusTotal. This release also reports the machine type of executable images, whether 16-, 32-, or 64-bit.

RAMMap v1.32: This fixes a bug in v1.30 that caused RAMMap to fail on Windows 8.

Sigcheck v2.01: This update fixes a bug in the handling of the -u option that sometimes resulted in Sigcheck reporting signed files.