13 Awesome Windows Software Tools You've Never Heard Of

These might be the most useful Windows tools ever!

The Sysinternals suite for Windows is one of the most well known software collections among IT professionals, but most regular Windows users have never heard of it. A lot of the utilities don't have use to the average person, but some of them do. This includes "Process Explorer, which is like a super charged version of the task manager, or "AutoRuns" which will show you everything that starts up with Windows, even things MSConfig or the task manager won't show you.

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[JuanGarutti]

Some nice timestamps:

01) 00:35 - Process Explorer (procexp.exe)
02) 01:39 - Process Monitor (procmon.exe)
03) 02:35 - Autoruns (autoruns.exe)
04) 03:24 - TCPView (tcpview.exe)
05) 04:27 - ZoomIt (zoomit.exe)
06) 04:59 - Not My Fault (notmyfault.exe)
07) 05:30 - SigCheck (sigcheck.exe)
08) 06:45 - Secure Delete (sdelete.exe)
09) 07:37 - PendMoves (pendmoves.exe)
10) 08:04 - Move File (movefile.exe)
11) 08:31 - Disk View (diskview.exe)
12) 09:08 - Process Kill (pskill.exe)
13) 10:08 - Core Info (coreinfo.exe)

[psssantosh]

Omg I just found out thoijoe makes REAL VIDEOS!!! 😱😱😱 ...that's a good thing, though

[RichiRFB]

I just want to say that Sysinternals Suite is available in the Microsoft Store.

[adarshpreetsingh]

thanks for helping us and giving us new updates about windows software's

[ThioJoe]

A wrench is all you need to fix any computer problem

[HiltonBenchley]

Point of order: an inexactitude in your introduction. Microsoft was not the originator of the Sysinternals suite. Mark Russenberg created Sysinternals and wrote many of the utilities and after a number of years Microsoft invited him to join them and to continue to enhance the suite under their name. I'm hoping they gave him a lot of money to join them.

[crtune]

Thanks for highlighting this fabulous software. Bryce Cogswell, and Mark Russinovitch are the geniuses behind Windows Internals or Sysinternals (originally called Ntinternals before MSFT abandoned the "NT" wording). The idea was to delve as deeply as possible into the mechanics of the Windows operating system so programmers and hardware people can use this information to better produce software and hardware. A great idea, and their Austin, TX consulting company did really well, leading sessions all over the world, attended by many "program to the metal" attendees. The tools help us understand what is truly going on within our Windows operating system. My favorite is Process Explorer. Want to know exactly which dll are being used at any moment by a program (i.e. set of processes)? Want to know which handles are set up by any process? Want to watch GPU usage in real time? Process Explorer does all that an much more. Even now, with Win 10 having greatly improved the Task Manager, it's still a good idea to substitute Process Explorer in as your default upon "three finger salute". You just get so much power in this easy to use program. Another really cool thing is that Process Explorer and its little buddy "Autoruns" (shows everything running on start up, and allows control over it) will run on any machine exclusively using the program "image", which means there is no real installation routine, you just copy the *.exe into your new machine, and run them. Voila! They run. This is particularly great for heavily monitored machines issued by large businesses which seek to limit what tools can be run on workstations.

[furzkram]

The suite was NOT made by Microsoft, it was developed by Marc Russinovich, who then got hired by Microsoft.

[gilboston]

I've been using windows since windows 3 and just found out another excellent free software. Snipping tool. Every time I had to crop a piece of my desktop or anything like that, I used the print screen, open paint and paste, crop, copy open another paint window, paste, and save. The snipping tool does it all and is built-in windows 10.

[nabeelmohammed]

I asked for this video and its here thanks man

[RonanConnolly]

MS didn't create the Sysinternals suite, although they now own them.

Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovic founded Winternals in 1996, there they created the ntinternals suite of tools.
Microsoft bought the company 10 years later in 2006 and added the tools to the Microsoft TechNet website, rebranding them as Sysinternals.
fyi Mark is now CTO of Azure.

Great video fyi, I really like the TCPView.

[slickwillie]

Got sysinternals now. Works great. Thanks! 🤯

[carltaylor]

I have a stubborn set of folders that are empty but windows won't let me delete them for some reason. Can I use the "MoveFile64" utility to get rid of those folders and subfolders all at once? Or can I even use that utility for folders at all?

[shaunaymos]

nice listing, thx. also a nice feature Windows should have is to change folders easily, such as using FolderChanger, google it

[hra]

I know all of them, but thanks for showing.

[danieleremin]

What is the difference between pskill and taskkill?

[cds]

Thank's a million, very good man!

[Kiansjet]

In regard to the pskill command, windows has a built in command line program called taskkill that works very similarly and is located in system32. Whenever I need to kill any process on my PC, I just open the run dialog and type "taskkill /im chrome.exe /f"

[richardhoran]

They did not make sysinternals they bought it.

[bharathikannan]

Thanks a lot for all this information about programs:-)