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Re: Request: Versioned download URLs
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
Dec 10, 2025 Place Sysinternals
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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
Dec 08, 2025 Place Sysinternals
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How to query for installed packaged COM extension points?
StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69556384/how-to-query-for-installed-packaged-com-extension-points I work on a plugin-based application that is currently scanning the Windows registry for compatible COM servers that expose certain "Implemented Categories" entries. This works well for "regular" COM servers installed through MSI installers. However, I'm now facing a problem with COM servers installed through MSIX installers that expose COM extension points through the "Packaged COM" catalog as described in https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2017/04/13/com-server-ole-document-support-desktop-bridge/ . These COM servers can still be instantiated through CoCreateInstance, but RegOpenKey/RegEnumKey searches aren't able to detect their presence. I've already investigated using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.management.deployment.packagemanager.findpackagesforuser to detect installed packages and parsing the associated manifest files for https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/schemas/appxpackage/uapmanifestschema/element-com-comserver tags. However, it seem like a rather clunky approach to me. Having some sort of Windows API for querying the "Packaged COM" catalog for installed COM servers would make everything much simpler.
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Oct 17, 2021 Place MSIX
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