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Get it while you can
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:11 pm
by Benjamin
I'll make this short and sweet.
Sysinternals knows a LOT about how windows works under the hood. So much so that MS bought the company. They claim that they wanted these "talented" individuals to work for them, but that sounds a bit fishy.
Anyway, if your running Windows and want some cool tools, I would archive these..
http://www.sysinternals.com/
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:37 pm
by ambivalent
Agreed, been using their stuff for some time now. A lot of the command line tools integrate well with exec(), for use on intranets and such. Did you read about their beef with Best Buy?
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:36 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Nice site. I like the autorun utility. That will certainly come in handy at work.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:39 pm
by Benjamin
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:42 pm
by alex.barylski
Nice...I haven't checked it out yet, ut I'm well aware of these guys...they frequently had tools, etc I wanted when I did windows development
So what, like everything is free???
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:45 pm
by RobertGonzalez
That is funny. My boss once had me run an app he said was necessary for our business. It was a prank app that showed a status dialog box that appeared to be deleting all of the files on your hard drive. Then it abruptly stopped, went blue, then threw up a picture of a monkey with a question similar to 'Don't you fell stupid?'. Yeah, that was loads of fun.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:45 pm
by Benjamin
Almost all of it is free yes. They do sell some tools though. The tools that best buy didn't want to pay for.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:46 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Hey, if the tools are worth it, pay for them.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:49 pm
by Benjamin
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:56 pm
by alex.barylski
Hmmmm...can't find the tools I was interested in...
If I remember correctly it was more the source code I was after...
Back when doing Windows 98 development...and writing a profiling utility..I wanted to incorporate a bunch of kernel information...like how much CPU the process in which I was profiling was using...
I think they had a program for Windows 98 which did such a thing, so naturally after searching high and low and asking *everywhere* how this could be done...I finally came to the conclusion it wasn't possible under Windows 98 (The API became available with NT/XP)
So I was curious how the guys at sysinternals did it
B*stards are damn clever...cause I spent a better part of a month trying to figure it out...without resorting to writing a VxD
Clever guys thats for sure...