Mark’s Blog: The Case of the Printing Failure - Mark’s most recent post in the Case of the Unexplained series describes the troubleshooting steps, which include use of Procdump and Process Monitor, an administrator went through when printing...

Process Explorer v12.03: This update revs the driver name so that it is used even when the previous driver is already loaded.

Process Monitor v2.9: This update to Process Monitor adds translations for more error codes, the ability to disable individual filter entries, and a debugging API so that developers can insert debug output into the Process Monitor event stream (John Robbins...

Process Explorer v12.01: This update fixes a bug that prevented DEP status being shown on Windows XP and the threads page of the process properties dialog from showing service names on Windows Vista.

Process Explorer v12: This Process Explorer release includes several significant new features, including the showing the web hosted in IE8 processes in the process tooltip, display of a svchost’s service host category in its tooltip, mapping of service...

VMMap v2.61: This fixes a minor bug in the calculation of the Unknown category total.

AdExplorer v1.3: This update to AdExplorer, an Active Directory editor, has major node expansion performance improvements and a number of minor bug fixes. VMMap v2.6: VMMap, a powerful process virtual and physical memory analysis tool, now shows both...

Paul Thurrott Interviews Mark on Windows 7 Development : Check out Mark’s interview with Windows IT Pro Magazine columnist Paul Thurrott, where he discusses some of the thinking behind Windows 7. Mark’s Blog: Case of the Slow Logon : Mark’s latest...

ProcDump v1.72: This update changes the dump file date and time format to be ISO compliant and fixes a bug that prevented ProcDump from exiting when the process termination condition was active. Desktops v1.02: v 1.02 works around another issue that...

ProcDump v1.71: This fixed a bug in the exception handling dump condition logic.

ProcDump v1.7: This update to ProcDump, a command-line utility that will generate memory dumps of processes based on various selectable criteria, now supports periodic timed dumps as well as dumps based on virtual memory thresholds. AccessChk v4...

Mark’s Windows Internals Session at the Professional Developer’s Conference, Part 1 Mark’s Windows Internals Session at the Professional Developer’s Conference, Part 2 : Mark dives deep to cover Windows 7 and Windows Server...

NewSID Retirement and the Machine SID Duplication Myth: Mark’s latest blog post debunks the myth that having duplicate machine SIDs causes problems, explaining why the Sysinternals NewSID tool has been retired. Disk2vhd v1.3: This update to Disk2vhd...

Disk2vhd v1.21: The target volume size calculation is now based on the required size of the source volumes instead of the total size.

Windows 7 General Availability and Mark on Channel 9: Check out Mark’s latest Channel 9 interview on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 kernel changes, released today to coincide with Windows 7’s general availability. He talks about memory management...

Disk2vhd v1.2: This version fixes the space requirement calculation for the volume to which the VHD will be written.

Disk2vhd v1.1: Disk2vhd now supports command-line options for automation and fixes a bug that could result in an “invalid user buffer” error during a conversion. ZoomIt v4.1: ZoomIt is a screen magnification and annotation utility that’s...

Autoruns v9.56: This update enables Autoruns to view registry entries that have permissions only allowing the System account access and fixes a bug that caused some rundll32-hosted entries to not display correctly.

Disk2vhd v1.0: We’re excited to announce a new Sysinternals tool, Disk2vhd, that simplifies the migration of physical systems into virtual machines (p2v). Just run Disk2vhd on the system you want to migrate and specify the volumes for which you want data...

Mark’s Blog: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles : Mark’s latest post in his Pushing the Limits of Windows series goes inside the limits that affect handle usage. He explains the role of handles, describes how the system manages them, and shows you...

Filemon and Regmon Retired: As we forwarned, Filemon and Regmon have been retired from the site, since their functionality is subsumed by the much more powerful and scalable Process Monitor utility. NewSID End of Life: NewSID will be retired from...

Process Monitor v2.7 : This update to Process Monitor, a system monitoring utility, adds a new option to the process tree dialog that direct it to show just the timeline for displayed events, uses kernel-based thread profiling on Vista and higher for...

Procdump v1.4: This fixes a bug introduced in v1.3 that broke compatibility with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Mark’s Blog: The Case of the Temporary Registry Profiles : In the latest post in Mark’s “Case of the Unexplained” series, he documents a perplexing case affecting many Microsoft and Citrix customers that Microsoft Customer Support Services solved with...

ZoomIt v4.0: In addition to minor bug fixes, this update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, has significant improvements to the live zoom functionality that’s available on Vista and Windows 7. For example, it removes the shadow mouse...