Master Windows Sysinternals

Windows tools don’t get much more powerful than Sysinternals – a collection of programs to tweak your desktop, manage your files and reveal what Windows is getting up to in the background. Launched in 1996 and bought by Microsoft 10 years later, Sysinternals is still regularly updated by one of its founders, Mark Russinovich.

You can download and run each tool individually (browse the full list at ) or just get the Sysinternals Suite from , which includes all the tools in a single 43MB ZIP file (for each tool mentioned below, we’ve included the full file name so you’ll know which one to run). You can even run