Installing Sysinternals Tools.
Hi, everyone.
Leo Notenboom here for Askleo.Com.
If you followed me for any length of time,
you'll know that I very often refer
to Sysinternals from Microsoft as a good source of tools.
You may not recognize SysInternals,
but you will recognize things like Process Explorer or the AutoRuns tools.
Well, I just discovered that Microsoft has
made that entire suite of tools available in the Microsoft Store,
which is a very, very cool thing for a couple of different reasons.
One is, it makes installing them a Snap,
and it also keeps them up to date automatically.
The apps you install from the Microsoft Store are updated automatically.
So let's have a look at how these tools
get installed, where they show up, how to use a couple of them anyway.
And then also, if you've to got clean up
as I did, you can find out where these tools were
installed so that you know which ones you can safely delete from your own duplicate
copy if you've already installed some of these.
So here we are in Windows Ten.
I'm going to go ahead and hit the Microsoft Store,
and we'll just search for Sysinternals.
You're looking for the Sysinternals suite
we'll click on Get.
Sysinternals includes a number of different tools.
The suite installs all of them.
So we'll go ahead and install that.
There are several tools that,
to be honest, you may never, ever use, but because this is so much easier than
tracking down the individual downloads and expanding the zip files and copying
the files to places so that you can use them.
Basically,
these apps have been installed, which is fantastic.
We're done. We can close the store
where they've been installed is on your Start menu.
If we scroll down, you'll see that Autoruns is already here.
Sysinternal suite is here as recently
added, and I believe if we scroll down to the S's here, there's this internal suite.
If we click on that,
we'll get information about what these tools are,
which we may or may not find useful,
but more useful are the individual tools that are now on your Start menu.
Access enum Auto login Auto runs is a tool that I've recommended before
scrolling down here to my all time
favorite will find Process Explorer right here.
Process Monitor is another tool that comes in.
I'm just going to fire up Process Explorer
so that you know what it is we're talking about.
You can see that it's already running and we'll go ahead and make it larger.
This, as I've referred to in the past, is essentially Task Manager on Steroids.
There are a lot of different things you can do here with Process Explorer.
There's a lot you can do with Task Manager.
Don't get me wrong, but for a lot of us, the extra detail, the extra tools,
the extra visibility you can get using Process Explorer
is desirable.
And like I said, there's a bunch of other tools that are installed.
I'll go ahead and run
auto runs just because that's another tool that I've referenced in several places
on Ask Leo, this is a tool that tells you absolutely
everything that is run automatically when you fire up Windows or when you log in.
As you can tell, it's a very long list.
When you're looking at everything,
there's all sorts of different things here related to the various tools installed
on this system, and this isn't even a particularly heavily used system.
This is one of my example
Windows Ten machines, but you can see that there's a lot
of stuff here, but the good news, the reason that this is
such an interesting thing and such an important thing
is that we now have these tools installed using the Microsoft Store.
I'm going to go ahead and back to Sysinternals in the store,
and you can see that it is already installed on this device.
You can install it on other devices if you want.
So this is another machine associated with this particular account.
I'm not going to do that now.
I'll do that from the machine.
And of course, you can pin the Sysinternal suite to your start of your taskbar.
As we've seen, Sysinternal Suite by itself
is not particularly useful, since it's only giving you
the documentation page for the full CIS internals.
It's the individual tools that you'll now find on your Start menu that are useful.
Now, there is one caveat that I'm going to throw out here.
I have installed this on my Windows Eleven machine.
You're looking at Windows Ten right now on Windows Eleven,
the Sysinternal suite gets installed as a sub menu of your Start menu.
So rather than taking you
to the documentation for Sysinternals, if you see Sysinternals on your
Windows Eleven Start menu, you will see that it actually expands
to list all the individual tools, but that's a minor difference.
All the individual tools are there.
All the individual tools are ready for you to use.
I hope this was helpful.
It got me pretty excited just because I use these tools a lot.
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