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forderud
Copper Contributor
Dec 08, 2025

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 Orderud

2 Replies

  • Viorel's avatar
    Viorel
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 09, 2025

    Maybe the external tools should be downloaded manually and placed in a reserved, unchangeable location.

    • forderud's avatar
      forderud
      Copper Contributor
      Dec 10, 2025

      Does then the Sysinternals license allow redistribution?

       

      The reason for asking is that this is that the Chocolatey developers recently expressed doubt about this in https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages/pull/2757 

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