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Microsoft Updates Multiple Sysinternals Tools

Posted by timothy on from the might-as-well-make-the-best-of-it dept.

wiedzmin writes "A couple of very useful updates have just been released by Microsoft for the ever so popular Sysinternals tool set. The most notable one is ProcessMonitor v2.0 which will now include 'real-time TCP and UDP monitoring.' Another one, released earlier this year — Desktops 1.0, provides a very unique multi-thread way to get multiple desktops running on your Windows box."

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  1. How about . . . by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about making it so ProcessMonitor actually fully unloads when you quit. Nothing is more aggravating then having to reboot because a lot of games consider it a hacking tool and refuse to run.

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    1. Re:How about . . . by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Your complaint is fair(unless there is some hardcore Windows internals reason that Russinovich has his reasons for); but I am struck by the fact that sharing a platform with applications that treat you with suspicion and contempt is normal.

    2. Re:How about . . . by someone300 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Making a kernel driver unload while the system is running is hard,

      Nearly every Linux kernel module manages it.. (rmmod).

    3. Re:How about . . . by fluch · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I consider this a bug in the custommer. They shouldn't buy games which are deliberately bugy and defective by design ... and now, burn, karma, burn... :)

    4. Re:How about . . . by malkavian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A bug in software most frequently arises due to bad, or insufficient logic being applied.
      I'd say that failing to run because somebody happens to have another (and in this case fully supported by Microsoft) program running in the background.
      You can see where the suits (and some knee jerk reactions from developers) are looking; If we put that bit in there, we're safe.

      However, the cracks that appear ensure that this is not the case. As has been noted many times on /. DRM does not affect the people who grab the cracked versions and have no intention of ever paying. It only affects someone who has already given the company their money.
      This results in a bad customer experience, lowering the credibility of the games house.

      In my eyes, this makes the logic applied by the developers (include this, and we'll be safe, and the world will be a better place, and no customer could ever object to this) is inherently flawed. This flaw makes its way into the design.
      The design is implemented in the software, which causes an issue with various other applications the end user may wish to run.
      So, the logic used in the design results in a piece of software not running. Whether the intent was to have this happen or not, the logic is flawed, thus making it a bug.

    5. Re:How about . . . by jonadab · · Score: 3, Insightful

      However, there may be some significant differences between Linux and the NT kernel, both in terms of the design and the implementation. It may be that not everything that's hard to do with one of them is automatically also hard to do with the other.

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    6. Re:How about . . . by Gr8Apes · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'd most certainly list it as a bug.

      Why does the game publisher think it has any rights at all regarding what I run on my PC?

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    7. Re:How about . . . by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 4, Insightful

      But what about the feature of the NT kernel where game companies actually produce software for it? When is the Linux kernel going to get that one?

  2. Re:/. and Microsoft articles... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Team Slashdot may not like Windows very much; but when you have to get your hands dirty with Windows, having the sysinternals tools makes your life less unpleasant.

    Plus, Mark was the one who discovered and publicised the Sony rootkit, when all the professional AV guys were too incompetent or traitorous to say anything. That ought to give him enough karma to go unflamed on Slashdot once or twice.

  3. Re:Finally.. by urbanriot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the upside of that, if an app crashes on one desktop, it won't bring explorer down on the others.

  4. Re:Hang on to your old versions... by urbanriot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh no's, conspiracy! Consider Vista / Win2k8 compatibility was added to a number of these tools, as well new features and functionalities HAVE been added to many of them.

  5. R U sure that you know what U are talking about? by frovingslosh · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (subject line done in illiterate speak to fit)

    I didn't get the impression that this was a DRM issue. I took it more as an anti-cheat measure for on-line play. Given that there are huge numbers of players who think it's neat to win by loading up some warez that gives your game an unfair advantage against other on-line players, it's not too unreasonable to have code that detects some of the more common cheats. Unfortunately, when monitoring software starts hooking itself in places where it's not expected, it can look a lot like the cheating software.

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