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Bugs in RAMMAP and ZOOM it, Contig question/improvement
I use the latest versions of Sysinternals' RAMMAP, ZOOM-it and Contig. 1. RAMMAP still contains a bug. Start the program and open the "Process" tab. You will see that RAMMAP truncates the names of the processes to the 1st 14 characters of the process names. If the name of a process is e.g. 30 characters long (including the extension) then RAMMAP only displayes the 1st 14 characters and then the last 16 characters are not shown at all. I brought this bug to the attention of Microsoft in the past but this hasn't been fixed yet. 2. The latest versions of ZOOMit fail to start on my Windows 7 system. It then generates an error. Something along the lines of "Failed to start". This applies to both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions. Previous version of ZOOMit in the past did run & start on my system. 3. Is CONTIG able to defragment directory files themselves ? If so, then what should I type in MSDOS ? These can be fragmented as well. A program called DEFRAGGLER is capable to defrag directory files itself but not CONFIG !!! In Windows MS-DOS one can target the directory itself by using a dot ("."). E.g. "CD c:\windows\." This targets the directory itself. To be added to CONTIG as well in a future version.
DebugView v. 5.0 freezes
It appears that if the file C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP exists, DebugView/UI will freeze completely if permission to open/read the file hasn't been granted. DebugView is also incapable of telling what it's trying to do at the time (ie. trying to process a crash dump file). Running DebugView under a non-Administrative account & trying to process a renamed crash dump file yields the following error message:Issue with Autoruns v14.11 – Offline System Registry Hives Not Unmounted
When using the Analyze Offline System option leaves registry hives mounted, risking system corruption. Steps to Reproduce: Open Autoruns v14.11. Use File > Analyze Offline System. Close AutoRuns. Observe that registry hives remain mounted after the process has terminated. (Regedit.exe > HKLM > autoruns.software / autoruns.system / autoruns.user) Impact: Can render the offline system unbootable. Prevents you from using Analyze Offline System again as the HKLM\autoruns.* mountpoints are already in use. Workaround: Use v13.100, which works correctly.
Suggestion for ProcessExplorer?
Could not find any public tracker or feedback system for sysinternals suite or process explorer itself (really needs something IMHO if for no other reason just so people can check if if something has already been suggested) Anyway, I would really like if Process explorer could have a graph to watch aggregate NETWORK i/o separate from disk(block) I/O. To avoid having to use multiple tools to to figure out a systems' (and process) network utilization to find issues. In addition, the system information popout window (summary, cpu, memory, i/o, gpu) should both include this on the summary tab, as well as include GPU (which is missing) on the summary tab. If there is an actual place to file such suggestions/feedback that is NOT the forum please let me know.
Request: Versioned download URLs
Hi, The download URLs listed on https://learn.microsoft.com/nb-no/sysinternals/downloads/ all seem to point to the latest version of each Sysinternal tools. This is usually preferable, but causes problems for tools such as Chocolatey that validates the checksum of the ZIP file after download (see https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages/blob/master/automatic/sysinternals/tools/chocolateyInstall.ps1). Checksum validation will then fail after each Sysinternal release since the file content have changed but not the URL (see https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages/issues/2751). ASK: Would it be possible for the Sysinternal team to also offer download URLs that contain the version, so that Chocolatey and similar tools can start assuming a constant checksum for a given download URL? Thanks in advance, Fredrik OrderudRDCMan v3.1: Recent Built-In Group Not Working
I am using Remote Desktop Connection Manager v3.1 (on Windows 11 Enterprise, 24H2) and have found the following two issues... The "Recent" Built-In Group doesn't work...the recently connected servers do not appear in this group (this fails for my colleague too). If you click on the URL shown in the "About" Dialogue box then RDCMan errors and then crashes! (Again, this too fails for my colleague). Many thanks! Lee
Autologon v3.10 fails to set password for Server 2025
When attempting to setup AutoLogon for Windows Server 2025, the AutoAdminLogon, DefaultDomainName, DefaultUserName are all set, though it does not appear to be setting the encrypted password correctly where ever autologon stores that value. I have tested it working successfully on Windows Server 2022.
