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Updates: Accesschk v5.11, Procdump v6.0, RAMMap v1.22, Strings v2.51

safarr_msft1 — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:47:00 GMT

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 several minor
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.

Updates: Autoruns v11.5, Du (Disk Usage) v1.5, Procdump v5.14, Procmon v3.04, Ru (Registry Usage) v1.0

safarr_msft1 — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:23:00 GMT

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.

Updates: Pendmoves v1.2, Process Explorer v15.3, Sigcheck v1.91, Zoomit v4.42

safarr_msft1 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:17:00 GMT

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.

Update: Autoruns v11.42

safarr_msft1 — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:15:00 GMT

Autoruns v11.42: This release fixes a bug in the parsing of network file paths introduced in v11.41.

Updates: Autoruns v11.41, Handle v3.51, Movefile v1.01, Procdump v5.13, Sigcheck v1.9

safarr_msft1 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:36:00 GMT

Autoruns v11.41: This Autoruns update reports the hosting image target of link shortcut references.

Handle v3.51: This minor update to Handle, a command-line utility that dumps process handle tables, fixes a bug in its file share drive letter formatting.

Movefile v1.01: Movefile, a utility for scheduling file delete and rename operations for when the system reboots, now correctly handles 64-bit system paths.

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.

Updates: Autoruns v11.4, ProcDump v5.12, SDelete v1.61

safarr_msft1 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:58:00 GMT

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.

Update: ZoomIt v4.41

safarr_msft1 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:58:00 GMT

ZoomIt v4.41: This update fixes a bug in ZoomIt v4.4 that prevented it from running on 32-bit Windows XP.

Updates: DebugView v4.81, ProcDump v5.11, ZoomIt v4.4

safarr_msft1 — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:11:00 GMT

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.

Updates: AdExplorer v1.44, Contig v1.7, Coreinfo v3.2, Procdump v5.1

safarr_msft1 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:30:00 GMT

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.

Updates: Coreinfo v3.1, Desktops v2.0, Livekd v5.3, PsPasswd v1.23, Testlimit v5.22, Whois v1.11

safarr_msft1 — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:01:00 GMT

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.