The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals

Barence writes "PC Pro contributing editor Jon Honeyball has written a nice feature on the latest treasures to be found on the Windows Sysinternals website. Among them are a tool for creating virtual hard disks from physical drives, a hard disk read-write monitoring tool, and a utility for putting ISO images onto flash drives. They're free, but they're effective."

Comments

Duh

[afidel]

There's a reason MS bought the company and hired Mark, he consistently puts out the most useful tools for in the trenches Windows diagnostics. Heck MS's PSS would routinely have you use his tools even before the purchase because nothing they put out internally was nearly as useful.

Re:Duh

[RAMMS EIN]

``And the very first thing they did, within mere days of the acquisition, is they took his ultra-efficient, elegant little tools and put a 200KB EULA popup into every one of them.''

A fine example of how proprietary software is so much more user-friendly than open-source software.

``A GUI popup.

Even into the command line tools.''

That, of course, is to make them more user-friendly. Everybody knows the command-line is just for Unix hippies who still live in the 1970s.

Re:It's all stuff that ships with Linux

[heffrey]

Let me see if I've got this straight. A great set of tools that run on Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that run on Linux demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.

This sounds a bit like Raymond Chen's post today: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2010/02/09/9960102.aspx.

Free doesn't imply ineffective (and vice-versa)

[noidentity]

They're free and they're effective

There, fixed that for you. Saying "free but effective" suggests that free implies ineffective.

Re:Is time for multidesktop for windows?

[devent]

Oh yes, that's really easier that to type ls -l, ps -ef or ps -ef|grep firefox

Sorry, but the real advantages in the *nix shells is that every output is just plain simple text. That means, I can grep it, parse it, format it what ever I like and won't be restricted to the PowerShell to do anything use full.