Questions tagged [sysinternals]
Usually refers to applications from the Sysinternals Suite (eg. Process Explorer, Process Monitor, RAMMap, ...)
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Where does chocolatey install sysinternals?
Chocolatey has a nice sysinternals package, but where does it install to? (by default)
https://chocolatey.org/packages/sysinternals
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System Internals procexp64 wont restore Task Manager
Prior versions of Process Explorer would allow you to toggle on/off the Replace with Task Manager option. However the current version seems not to toggle so well. After turning it on I can no longer ...
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Why is high repurposed standby memory a sign of memory pressure?
I've been watching an older episode of defrag tools, where Andrew Richards explains RAMMap (http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/Defrag-Tools-6-RAMMap)
At 24:45 he mentions that repurposing ...
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Portmon - Portmsys.sys not found
I've been wrestling with Sysinternals' Portmon utility and am trying to get it working under Windows 8.1 64-bit. Initially it would not start - it gave "Error 2" and exited, as detailed in this Stack&...
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Why do programs start working when I open Process Monitor?
I have a script I wrote that creates and writes to a file every 20 or 30 seconds and it has been doing that fine for the past 15 years or so on 5 versions of Windows, but I installed the outstanding ...
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Extremely high modified memory usage and pages won't flush
My Lenovo Y50-70 machine suffers of extremely poor performance lately.
I'm disturbed by some memory-related issues. The machine has 8gb RAM and the pagefile size is currently 24gb ("Autmomatically ...
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Sysinternals - Streams access is denied error
I am using streams.exe to remove blocking of game by Windows but it is showing me "Access is denied" error although I am running the command with administrator.
Article (that one I am following) : ...
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Why is process monitor taking up 2+ gb of physical memory?
I am trying to hunt down a rogue process that is locking a file in a specific directory which is preventing a log being appended to. This locking happens about one to three times a week, so needless ...
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"I/O write" or "Disk write" affects the SSD?
I like to find out which program using mostly my SSD.
I'm using Process Hacker (in elevated mode) to get an overview of my SSD usage and find the programs whose using it mostly. To test the ...
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Process Explorer: Process Disk: Read/Write bytes not working?
I like to find out which program using mostly my SSD.
On Windows 7 x64 machine in Process Explorer (opened as Administrator) double clicking on a process opens up the details of it. On the Disk and ...
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How to exclude every process in Sysinternal's Process Monitor in the filter except for one process?
How to exclude every process in SysInternal's Process Monitor in the filter except for one process? Some kind of using a wildcard filter.
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Running Process Monitor causes application to work
This is a longshot, but perhaps someone with knowledge of the internal workings of Sysinternal's Process Monitor may have an idea.
Recently we've had a very murky problem at work. We have a software (...
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Why does running a specific command remotely over SSH fail?
I am creating two Bash scripts on my Raspberry Pi, which is running the default Debian-based Linux distro: one to sleep my desktop computer, and one to shut it down.
The script to shutdown the ...
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Defrag NTFS $LogFile
I have the super descriptive "my computer is slow" issue. In resource manager I notice that c:\$LogFile access times are continuously around 800 ms, and I suspect this is causing much of the slowdown. ...
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What is the most practical way of finding out which certificate is the problematic one?
I've been using wsusoffline for quite sometime, but recently, I've had this problem. The program downloads an update but then immediately deletes it producing the following warning in the log:
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